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6 votes
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Tesla sued over claims staff used cars’ cameras to spy on drivers
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AI and image generation (Everything is a remix, part 4)
4 votes -
The Nine Billion Names Of God
4 votes -
Midweek Movie Free Talk
Have you watched any movies recently you want to discuss? Any films you want to recommend or are hyped about? Feel free to discuss anything here. Please just try to provide fair warning of...
Have you watched any movies recently you want to discuss? Any films you want to recommend or are hyped about? Feel free to discuss anything here.
Please just try to provide fair warning of spoilers if you can.
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Ryuichi Sakamoto’s borderless brilliance. Paying tribute to the visionary Yellow Magic Orchestra member and Oscar-winning composer, who died last month at 71 from cancer.
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Desperate for profits and souring on streaming, Hollywood falls back in love with movie theaters
5 votes -
Book review: From Oversight To Overkill
4 votes -
Czechia's incredible 1960s supervillain-lair hotel (and why its architect got banned by the regime)
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With the new visual input capability, Danish startup Be My Eyes has begun developing a GPT-4 powered Virtual Volunteer for people who are blind or have low vision
10 votes -
How we're building a browser when it's supposed to be impossible
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Fortnightly Programming Q&A Thread
General Programming Q&A thread! Ask any questions about programming, answer the questions of other users, or post suggestions for future threads. Don't forget to format your code using the triple...
General Programming Q&A thread! Ask any questions about programming, answer the questions of other users, or post suggestions for future threads.
Don't forget to format your code using the triple backticks or tildes:
Here is my schema: ```sql CREATE TABLE article_to_warehouse ( article_id INTEGER , warehouse_id INTEGER ) ; ``` How do I add a `UNIQUE` constraint?2 votes -
The UGHZ Principle
6 votes -
TV Tuesdays Free Talk
Have you watched any TV shows recently you want to discuss? Any shows you want to recommend or are hyped about? Feel free to discuss anything here. Please just try to provide fair warning of...
Have you watched any TV shows recently you want to discuss? Any shows you want to recommend or are hyped about? Feel free to discuss anything here.
Please just try to provide fair warning of spoilers if you can.
5 votes -
The Marvels | Teaser trailer
8 votes -
We moved into a vacant house in the Japanese countryside (and only pay $300/year for rent)
19 votes -
White House launching $5 billion program to speed US coronavirus vaccines
3 votes -
Teaching ChatGPT to speak my son's invented language
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I've (mostly) left reddit. It's a lot like quitting cigarettes.
I've been a reddit user for a long time, it scares me how big the number is (death is marching my way quickly). Before reddit I was on digg, and before that, usenet (before google ruined it). God...
I've been a reddit user for a long time, it scares me how big the number is (death is marching my way quickly).
Before reddit I was on digg, and before that, usenet (before google ruined it). God I miss usenet. I know it technically still exists, but it seems to be mostly binaries and spam.
But the new interface really stinks, and since they've killed .compact, I decided it was time to go. (There were dozens of us using i.reddit.com! Dozens!)
And like the title says, it's a lot like kicking smokes. I was pretty jonesd the first couple days, and the experience comes like an impulse (Brain: "I'm bored! Check Reddit!"), followed by my conscious, no thank you, followed by, "What? No! We have to check reddit! Have to! We must do it now! Now! NOW!" followed by a gradual diminution in intensity of that same message, then a period of life, then repeat. The repeats slowly diminish in frequency, duration, and degree, so that now, only once or twice to I want to hit it.
A couple exceptions: I still check my relevant geographic reddits once in a while, and if relevant, I'll add "reddit" to my google results. I also use stackexchange and wikipedia more for some of those informational reasons, but those two, due to their labyrinthine and fiefish rules constrain content. Another discussion. There are also certain, ah, visual distractions for which reddit is still a good source (and for that I use teddit.net, thanks friendly tilderino!).
To ease withdrawals, I've been clicking tildes a lot more, also slashdot, and fark, and also ibooks. I'm proud of myself, and happy I've done it.
A moment of reflection-why do I like these sites so much? And why not facebook, twitter, etc.? I do like to argue, occasionally even as a third grader, but facebook and twitter have plenty of opporunity for that sort of thing. No, the difference is that reddit (and tildes, and usenet) are structured around ideas, whereas facebook etc. are structured around personalities. I'm an introvert, smarter than most people I encounter (at least along certain axes, many of which may be of dubious merit), curious and interested. Interested in ideas. Which is not to say I do not find people interesting, or do not value close, intimate, personal relationships. But I like to talk about ideas, and most people do not, except on places like reddit and here.
Perhaps I will start my own substack now.
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Five podcasts for supervillains who are also database professionals
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If the Moon were only 1 pixel - A tediously accurate map of the solar system
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What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them?
What have you been playing lately? Discussion about video games and board games are both welcome. Please don't just make a list of titles, give some thoughts about the game(s) as well.
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What have you been eating, drinking, and cooking?
What food and drinks have you been enjoying (or not enjoying) recently? Have you cooked or created anything interesting? Tell us about it!
5 votes -
Super-rich abandoning Norway at record rate as wealth tax rises slightly – flood moving abroad has come as a shock and is costing tens of millions in lost tax receipts
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Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of April 10
This thread is posted weekly - please try to post all relevant US political content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Extremely significant events may warrant a separate...
This thread is posted weekly - please try to post all relevant US political content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Extremely significant events may warrant a separate topic, but almost all should be posted in here.
This is an inherently political thread; please try to avoid antagonistic arguments and bickering matches. Comment threads that devolve into unproductive arguments may be removed so that the overall topic is able to continue.
11 votes -
Living in the secret world of Sumo in Japan
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Star Wars: Visions Volume 2 | Official trailer
5 votes -
ABBA's longterm guitarist Lasse Wellander has died at the age of 70
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AI vs. architects
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How Freddie Wong built RocketJump to nine million subscribers…and then left Youtube
6 votes -
Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie | Trailer
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Radji | Trailer
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Australia is quitting coal in record time thanks to Tesla
5 votes -
We asked the Olympics why their official esports are so weird
19 votes -
Blinks are useful in VR, but triggering blinks is tricky
11 votes -
Chinese EV maker NIO has opened its first European "Power Swap Station" in Denmark – drivers can stop to replace their battery with a fully charged one
13 votes -
‘Super Mario Bros’ hits high scores: Record opening for animated pic at $377M+ worldwide, 5-day US record $204M+
12 votes -
Green steel: Can we make steel without CO2 emissions?
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Kurzgesagt: Billionaire propaganda, stories, and trusting science
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Unknown when he first joined Brentford in 2016, Thomas Frank is now on the verge of leading the club to their highest league finish in eighty-five years
3 votes -
Google to prohibit personal loan apps from accessing user photos, contacts
11 votes -
The AI revolution: Midjourney v5, ChatGPT 4, Stable Diffusion 2.2 XL tested
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GM kills more than CarPlay support, it kills choice
14 votes -
Microsoft crackdown disables emulators downloaded to Xbox consoles
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Scary Pockets ft. Laura Elliott - Iris (Goo Goo Dolls funk cover, 2023)
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Amnesia: The Bunker feels like a new beginning for the series
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Working with GPT
7 votes -
The gambler who beat roulette
12 votes -
Database “sharding” came from Ultima Online
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‘Star Wars’: New movies from James Mangold, Dave Filoni in the works
5 votes