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Hades II technical test - Live gameplay
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US biotech executive sentenced to seven years in jail for COVID test fraud
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Rongelap Atoll: America’s nuclear mistake
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Analysis of Ludwig van Beethoven’s DNA revealed that he had a low genetic predisposition for musical ability
10 votes -
There is no evidence that CBD products reduce chronic pain, and taking them is a waste of money and potentially harmful to health, new research finds
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Canadian pet DNA company sends back dog breed results from human sample a second time
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Colorado Bureau of Investigation finds DNA scientist manipulated data in hundreds of cases over decades
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The human element in AI-driven testing strategies
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The extraordinary world of fake cities, and simulated urban environments
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The misguided war on the SAT
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These 3D printers print 3D printers! Touring inside Prusa Research's factory to see how they make their 3d printers (using their 3d printers!) and their filament.
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NASA's 3D-printed detonation engine revs up for four minutes in breakthrough test
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The world’s largest earthquake simulator, and how it works
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Arc Browser has started Beta testing on Windows
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Maybe getting rid of your QA team was bad, actually
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Three Cheers for Tildes (iOS version) is open for alpha testing on TestFlight
TestFlight TestFlight link: https://testflight.apple.com/join/mpVk1qIy Three Cheers for Tildes is an unofficial mobile app for Tildes, originally announced on Tildes' 5th birthday. The original...
TestFlight
TestFlight link: https://testflight.apple.com/join/mpVk1qIy
Three Cheers for Tildes is an unofficial mobile app for Tildes, originally announced on Tildes' 5th birthday. The original announcement answers some basic questions about the app.
iPhone and iPad support
The app supports iOS versions as early as iOS 12.4, which includes iPhone 5s and iPad Air 1st generation.
The app also sports an iPad dual-pane layout, similar to the tablet layout in the Android version.
30-second iPad demo: https://youtube.com/shorts/S0tT2qM-Wh8
Missing features
Like the Android app, the iOS app is still missing tons of features—hence "alpha". Alpha version 0.5 is currently good enough for light use, to help check on Tildes once or twice a day. You can log in, vote, and comment.
Notable missing features as of v0.5: Submitting topics; Markdown editor; In-app notifications; Comment labels; Sort options.
Android?
(Looking for the Android alpha? See the Android alpha testing announcement.)
Now that the iOS alpha version is out, I can look at adding missing features to both Android and iOS. Thanks for your patience if you've been using the Android app in the meantime.
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Why anonymous sperm donation is over in the US and why that matters
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Three Cheers for Tildes (Android version) is open for alpha testing on the Google Play Store
Play Store link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.talklittle.android.tildes Alternatively, opt-in to testing via web:...
Play Store link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.talklittle.android.tildes
Alternatively, opt-in to testing via web: https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.talklittle.android.tildes
Three Cheers for Tildes is an unofficial mobile app for Tildes, originally announced on Tildes' 5th birthday. The original announcement answers some basic questions about the app.
It is still missing tons of features—hence "alpha"—but I felt it would be better to release something instead of waiting too long. Alpha version 0.5 is currently good enough for light use, to help check on Tildes once or twice a day. You can log in, vote, and comment.
Notable missing features as of v0.5: Submitting topics; Markdown editor; In-app notifications; Comment labels; Sort options.
The iOS version is underway and I am aiming to have it done by the October deadline achieved during our June fundraiser.
Other iOS apps are already in beta testing: Backtick by @wababa and Surfboard by @earlsweatshirt.
I'll try to keep this post updated with changelogs and known bugs.
I don't have a public issue tracker for feature requests; feel free to leave requests in comments here. Thanks my Tildren!
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Centenarian blood tests give hints of the secrets to longevity
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The world’s first true female car crash dummy has been developed in Sweden — and it’s a big deal
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A blood test for long Covid is possible, a study suggests
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Optimizing for Taste
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Jet Propulsion Laboratory-led team use Iceland as a stand-in for Venus to test radar technologies that will help uncover the planet's ground truth
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This is the first crash test dummy modelled on the female body. Will it make cars safer for women?
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Any OG Doom players who would like to test maps?
I'm wondering if there's anybody here who plays the original Doom/Doom II that might be interested to try some of the maps I've been working on. I primarily make maps for the first because I...
I'm wondering if there's anybody here who plays the original Doom/Doom II that might be interested to try some of the maps I've been working on. I primarily make maps for the first because I prefer the episodic format and theme progression. Having someone else to try your maps can help to identify issues that you may have overlooked during testing or refine clunky design. I've been trying a new approach where instead of working room by room, I sketch out a rough outline of the entire map flow in the editor and gradually fill in the details as I see opportunities to do something interesting with what I've got laid down.
I make maps in Doom Builder using GZDoom, so you'd need some form of Boom-compatible source port since I used a few generic linedefs for more complex map features (most common non-ZDoom ports I can think of like Zandorum have this). Generally I stick to old-school map styles without scripting and excessively-detailed architecture; think '94 WADs but better detail. Primarily I make singleplayer maps that are open to being modified to work in co-op.
Trying to get the mapping mojo back, so any help is appreciated!
EDIT: Here's the link for the map. It's E3M1 of Ultimate Doom.
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Tekken 8 | Feng and closed beta test reveal trailer
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Poland's crusade against abortion investigates miscarriages, tests blood for evidence of abortion pills, created a national pregnancy registry
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I’m designing a Pokemon-inspired piano ed. book for kids 6-10, and looking for testers
This book uses cartoon mascots assigned to three areas of music training on the keyboard: dexterity skills, reading/writing/listening, and repertoire performance. Each mascot starts off as a cute...
This book uses cartoon mascots assigned to three areas of music training on the keyboard: dexterity skills, reading/writing/listening, and repertoire performance.
Each mascot starts off as a cute lil’ dude and evolves into huge powerful creatures as the child “levels up.” My ultimate vision is a book or book series that utilizes the mascots in figurine form for prize-incentives and mascot videos to offer help and guidance for individual activities.
The first prototype will only feature the books, and I expect to finish it in the next 1-2 months.
I was hoping to get a list of potentially interested parties that would beta-test the book without cost in exchange for feedback/testimonial.
If you’re interested, please send a message through my website— https://alexgoodhart.com/lessons (you won’t see any mention of the book there, but can send your contact info through the inquiry form).
If you’ve any thoughts to share here I’m all ears! Thank you — Alex
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‘Something happened, somehow something got mixed up’: the at-home DNA test that changed two families for ever
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Looking for beta testers for my Tildes.net iOS app!
Happy Friday everyone! I'm making a post to see if anyone wants to beta test my Tildes.net iOS app Backtick. Background I've been wanting to create a Reddit app for quite a while, and just when I...
Happy Friday everyone! I'm making a post to see if anyone wants to beta test my Tildes.net iOS app Backtick.
Background
I've been wanting to create a Reddit app for quite a while, and just when I got started, the API change chaos happened. Thankfully, I remembered signing up for Tildes.net a few years ago and decided to pivot to make an app for this site instead! The app is still a work in progress, but I believe releasing early and getting as many eyes on it during development results in a better end product (and it's more fun for me 😊).
Features
Here are the current features of Backtick:
- Light mode/dark mode
- Login to Tildes.net (suports 2FA)
- Front page feed with sorting support
- View, vote, and comment on posts
- Reply and vote on comments
- Collapse comments
- View notifications
- Full markdown rendering
- Text-to-speech for posts and comments
Here is a video demo of the app in its current state (updated for v1.8.1): https://youtube.com/shorts/iukQJyJbtw8?feature=share
I know there missing features, but as I mentioned before, I would love to get as many people in as early as possible to help shape Backtick's future.
Testing
If you're interested in testing the app as I continue to work on it during my free time you will need:
- An iOS 16 device
- TestFlight (Apple's testing app)
You can access the beta here: https://testflight.apple.com/join/gNH18NE9. If you have any issues please DM me your Apple ID email and I will send you an invite manually.
Thanks, everyone! Have a great weekend.
- AshEdit:
Getting some great feedback! I'll be tracking bugs and potential features here if anyone is curious: https://chatter-brick-3d3.notion.site/Backtick-Tracker-888150b641ae4c0ab39dc0345783bc50?pvs=4Edit2:
I created the Discord server to help facilitate better collaboration with those who wish to be more involved. It will be a place for discussion around potential features, bugs, and general chat. I will still be taking in feedback via TestFlight and Tildes.net, so it's perfectly fine if you don't want to join.
Join here: https://discord.gg/aah7nkfpBY194 votes -
Turning milk into clothing
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German Aerospace Center (DLR), a NASA VERITAS mission partner, is conducting instrument field tests in Iceland
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At the Grizzly & Wolf Discovery Center in West Yellowstone, Montana, you can get a product certified as bear-resistant... by testing it with actual bears
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The questionable engineering of the Oceangate Titan submersible
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Women in Denmark can now take a blood test to identify genetic foetal abnormalities in early pregnancy. But it has raised ethical questions.
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What's a good way to test a website that runs on edge nodes?
I have a little web app running on Deno Deploy and I want to see how it handles people connecting from multiple regions. There's a BroadcastChannel class that lets you send messages to any servers...
I have a little web app running on Deno Deploy and I want to see how it handles people connecting from multiple regions. There's a BroadcastChannel class that lets you send messages to any servers running in other regions, but to test it, I need to make connections in multiple regions, so there's more than one server running.
What are good ways to test this, either interactively or by writing tests? Maybe use a VPN? What's your favorite?
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Tildes is still in alpha-testing. It’s an unfinished product. Set your expectations accordingly.
Someone mentioned elsewhere that they signed up for Tildes “years ago during the beta”. That reminded me: Tildes hasn’t reached beta-testing yet. Officially, Tildes is still in alpha-testing...
Someone mentioned elsewhere that they signed up for Tildes “years ago during the beta”. That reminded me: Tildes hasn’t reached beta-testing yet.
Officially, Tildes is still in alpha-testing phase.
The login page says “Tildes is currently in invite-only alpha...” And the Contact page says “To request an invite to the Tildes alpha...”
We’re still in alpha-testing. Alpha-testing of software usually happens on an incomplete product before it is released to the customer.
This is a very important point. Tildes is not feature-complete yet: there are literally hundreds of feature requests yet to work on before Tildes will be what people want it to be – and even that list is far from complete. In Agile software development terms, Tildes is a minimum viable product, or, in other words, “a version of a product with just enough features to be usable by early customers who can then provide feedback for future product development”.
Tildes works as it is, but it’s a bare-bones forum: you can post, and comment… and that’s about it. It’s a proof of concept. There are a few minor tweaks here and there, which give the impression that Tildes is more complex than it is, but they’re misleading. There are plans to make Tildes a more complex website but, right now, most of that complexity of Tildes exists only in people’s imaginations (and there have been some very imaginative people contributing to that list of future features!).
Most questions about “Why doesn’t Tildes do X?” or “Can Tildes do X?” can be answered simply by saying “Tildes is incomplete and X hasn’t been built yet.” There are some questions about missing features which can be answered by saying “Tildes was never intended to do X”, but those are far and away in the minority. Most flaws, drawbacks, and problems with Tildes exist because Tildes is still a proof of concept, rather than a finished product.
It’s also worth noting that Tildes’ current feature set is absolutely not up to the task if the user base and site activity increase too quickly. There’s too much manual tinkering required at the moment to make things work properly: for one thing, there are no significant moderation tools on Tildes (that’s almost all done manually at the moment). There are still a lot of features yet to be built - and we don’t even know what some of those features are yet!
To pre-empt the people who will rightly point out that Tildes is 5 years old: Tildes’ feature set was intended to grow gradually over time, in line with a gradual growth in users, activity, and the need for those features to exist. However, Tildes has not undergone much growth over the past few years, so the existing features were sufficient to manage the existing activity. Basically, the site didn’t need a lot of fancy features to handle the low traffic here.
This sudden surge of new users might change that. But it will take time to build more features. That was always the intention, and it hasn’t changed now.
Until then: Tildes is still in alpha-testing. It’s an unfinished product. Set your expectations accordingly.
EDIT:
If you're one of the many people who seem to be replying to this topic, saying "it's okay, I like this simple bare-bones site as it is"... then you're probably not part of my original intended audience for this topic. This topic was aimed at all the people who are arriving here, being taken aback at how simple Tildes is, and wondering where the advanced features are.
However, we can still take the "set your expectations accordingly" message and apply it to you: "Tildes is an unfinished product, so you can expect it to change in the future. It won't be like this forever."
Either way, "set your expectations accordingly" is the message here, whether you're expecting more features and not finding them, or whether you're expecting simplicity and enjoying what you see. Either way, you should know that things will change around here. Maybe slowly. Maybe quickly. Maybe they'll get better from your point of view. Maybe they'll get worse from your point of view. But, change they will.
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At the University of California San Diego, there's the Shake Table; an earthquake simulator with the heaviest payload capacity in the world
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Is there a way to do a DNA test anonymously?
Not sure if this is the right spot, but the topic says it. I'd like to get my DNA checked out, but I don't want it connected to my name and all that. Is this actually possible? Am I overreacting?...
Not sure if this is the right spot, but the topic says it. I'd like to get my DNA checked out, but I don't want it connected to my name and all that. Is this actually possible? Am I overreacting?
I'm not even sure what I look to gain from the testing, but I figured I'd look into it. If I can do it safely and privately, I'm game. If not, no loss.
Any thoughts?
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To prepare for future pandemics, we can learn from the OECD's top two performers: New Zealand and Iceland
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Doom's most mysterious glitch finally solved after thirty years
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First report of rare cat discovered on Mt. Everest
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Navigating the ethics of ancient human DNA research
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How donkeys changed the course of human history
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Team of Swedish engineers has finally developed the first crash test dummy designed on the body of the average woman
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Covid testing company "selling customers' DNA"
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Map drawn from memory helps man reunite with family decades after abduction
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Coverage is not strongly correlated with test suite effectiveness
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The first baby in history to be conceived with the help of polygenic testing
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