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What self-help / personal development books did you find valuable?
Which titles have you enjoyed in the "self-help" or personal development category? How did they help you and what lasting changes have you made since reading them?
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Weekly thread for casual chat and photos of pets
This is the place for casual discussion about our pets. Photos are welcome, show us your pet(s) and tell us about them!
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2,871 abandoned and little-known US airfields
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Sweden prides itself on equality, so why is its political gender gap growing – as general election looms, survey shows twice as many men as women support far-right Sverigedemokraterna
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President vetoes legal rights for same-sex couples in Poland
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There are three types of farters. Which one are you?
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The candidates standing in the Clacton by-election
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Largest residential fire in modern Norwegian history destroyed more than 100 homes and forced hundreds of people to evacuate
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Question for those who played both the original and remake of Final Fantasy VII
I’ve never played the original and am playing through the first game in the remakes and was curious if: you generally like the remake series so far? the characters had the same personality you...
I’ve never played the original and am playing through the first game in the remakes and was curious if:
- you generally like the remake series so far?
- the characters had the same personality you imagined now that they’re fully voiced?
- the overall atmosphere/vibe is the same/similar?
- Anything else you’d like to mention as being surprising or disappointing when comparing the two.
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Poland introduces law to criminalise "pathostreaming" (monetised livestreams profiting from violence, humiliation, and abuse)
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AI mania is eviscerating global decisionmaking
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The Clacks Overhead, a hidden memorial
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The sandpaper cover of The Return of the Durutti Column
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Ukraine ‘cuts off’ Crimea from Russia, plunging it into an energy crisis
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Where profits come from (the profits identity)
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Apple sues OpenAI for stealing trade secrets to build AI hardware
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How are you different than you were last week?
Doesn't have to be literally "last week", but what's a recent personal change for you? Why? Was it a conscious decision, a slow realization, a response to something, etc.? Tell us all about it.
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Mutiny - Shot To Hell (2024)
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Gamer Homer shares his top six favorite Odysseys
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Hong Kong police raid independent bookstores and arrest five people
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Japan relaxes royal succession rules - but ban on female emperors remains
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What have you been listening to this week?
What have you been listening to this week? You don't need to do a 6000 word review if you don't want to, but please write something! If you've just picked up some music, please update on that as...
What have you been listening to this week? You don't need to do a 6000 word review if you don't want to, but please write something! If you've just picked up some music, please update on that as well, we'd love to see your hauls :)
Feel free to give recs or discuss anything about each others' listening habits.
You can make a chart if you use last.fm:
http://www.tapmusic.net/lastfm/
Remember that linking directly to your image will update with your future listening, make sure to reupload to somewhere like imgur if you'd like it to remain what you have at the time of posting.
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I got slopped: someone used AI to write my biography
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What did you do this week (and weekend)?
As part of a weekly series, these topics are a place for users to casually discuss the things they did — or didn't do — during their week. Did you accomplish any goals? Suffer a failure? Do...
As part of a weekly series, these topics are a place for users to casually discuss the things they did — or didn't do — during their week. Did you accomplish any goals? Suffer a failure? Do nothing at all? Tell us about it!
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I wonder if years from now hand written code will be antique
Talking about software code, already a lot of it is written by ai and has a particular style. Reminds me of when circuit boards used to be manufactured by human hands, they all had a unique style...
Talking about software code, already a lot of it is written by ai and has a particular style.
Reminds me of when circuit boards used to be manufactured by human hands, they all had a unique style thats really fun to look at.
I wonder if in a few years my old software code will be like that, someone will look at it and go “oh, wow, this was written by hand”
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Offbeat Fridays – The thread where offbeat headlines become front page news
Tildes is a very serious site, where we discuss very serious matters like flooding.flash, sam neill and lindsey graham. Tags culled from the highest voted topics from the last seven days, if...
Tildes is a very serious site, where we discuss very serious matters like flooding.flash, sam neill and lindsey graham. Tags culled from the highest voted topics from the last seven days, if anyone was clued in.
But one of my favourite tags happens to be offbeat! Taking its original inspiration from Sir Nils Olav III, this thread is looking for any far-fetched
offbeatstories lurking in the newspapers. It may not deserve its own post, but it deserves a wider audience!6 votes -
Napalm Death: Tiny Desk Concert (2026)
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Help me choose a HiDPI monitor for work
It looks like we’re finally getting some real options in the space, so I’m interested in people’s thoughts and experiences! I’ve been running a pair of LG 27MD5KL monitors forever, and they’ve...
It looks like we’re finally getting some real options in the space, so I’m interested in people’s thoughts and experiences!
I’ve been running a pair of LG 27MD5KL monitors forever, and they’ve been largely great - but they’re really showing their age at this point, and I’m being forced to upgrade either way because my new job requires using a Windows laptop (likely a Dell Pro 14, but TBC), and those old LGs use an esoteric dual link DP variant that only Apple supports. I’ll also be keeping my personal MacBook Pro, so smooth compatibility with both is a must. Use will largely be software work: lots of documentation, lots of terminal windows, lots of dark mode, but some design review work as well where decent colour accuracy helps.
Options I’m seeing at the moment are:
- Asus ProArt PA27JCV
- Asus ROG Strix XG27JCG
- LG 27GM950B
- BenQ MA270S
- Apple Studio Display
- Apple Studio Display XDR
I get the impression that Apple’s the better option where possible, but I’m concerned about compatibility, especially when I don’t directly control the choice of laptop. If anyone has real world experience on that one I’d be interested, especially the difference between “technically works on non-Apple laptops” vs “is an equivalently good experience on non-Apple laptops”.
I’m guessing just using separate inputs for each laptop will be fine on whatever I go for, but I’m open to getting a KVM if needed (L1Techs? I haven’t actually checked how hard it is to find one that supports 2x 5K yet…). Couldn’t immediately see anything that’ll take Thunderbolt input from the Mac and HDMI input from the Windows laptop and push both to Thunderbolt output, which might otherwise have been a way to bridge the Apple display question.
Probably going for 27” 5K rather than 32” 6K, unless there’s a compelling argument for the latter. I briefly tried a Dell 32” 6K a few years back and other than horrible backlight bleed, sitting that close to a 32” display ended up feeling like I was craning my neck rather than moving my eyes to see edge to edge.
So, what do people think would be best here?
Sending up a bat signal for @gary and @ButteredToast - you guys both know your stuff on this one!
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Evidence for a giant companion orbiting Tabby’s star (KIC 8462852)
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The Odyssey - discussion thread
Warning: this post may contain spoilers
Spoiler discussion for Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey
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Vianney Halter's Deep Space Resonance
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ReciproCard — find free library cards, reciprocal and non-resident cards for Libby
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Long time no sea: finding the seahorse emoji
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DEI isn't dead: New research finds most companies still back workplace inclusion
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Claude Code is the ceiling on vibe-coded software
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Be the chatbot
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Marvel Comics to leave New York City for Los Angeles, Stephen Wacker now Editor in Chief
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8BitDo FlipPad
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Moroccan intelligence insider reveals widespread use of Pegasus hacking software
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When AI is a member of the family
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How our Rust-to-Zig rewrite is going
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Finland's women-only taxis gain traction – two new taxi companies are catering solely to women and children
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Hack reveals suno AI music generator scraped YouTube, Deezer, and Genius
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Feels so good: in defense of instrumental pop
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The Uprising | Official trailer
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What creative projects have you been working on?
This topic is part of a series. It is meant to be a place for users to discuss creative projects they have been working on. Projects can be personal, professional, physical, digital, or even just...
This topic is part of a series. It is meant to be a place for users to discuss creative projects they have been working on.
Projects can be personal, professional, physical, digital, or even just ideas.
If you have any creative projects that you have been working on or want to eventually work on, this is a place for discussing those.
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Fitness Weekly Discussion
What have you been doing lately for your own fitness? Try out any new programs or exercises? Have any questions for others about your training? Want to vent about poor behavior in the gym? Started...
What have you been doing lately for your own fitness? Try out any new programs or exercises? Have any questions for others about your training? Want to vent about poor behavior in the gym? Started a new diet or have a new recipe you want to share? Anything else health and wellness related?
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Wallflower - A quiet social reader
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Linus Torvalds says Linux is not "anti-AI", tells haters to 'fork it' and 'just walk away'
68 votes