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The historical amnesia of culture warriors
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Apple, Epic, and the App Store
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The Eliza Effect
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Google's open letter to Australians
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Amazon liable for defective third-party products rules CA Appellate Court
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What are your thoughts on r/BlackPeopleTwitter's Country Club threads?
I think on most sites this discussion isn't even worth having, knowing the type of people it would attract. But I have faith that Tildes can maintain civil discourse on this. For those unfamiliar,...
I think on most sites this discussion isn't even worth having, knowing the type of people it would attract. But I have faith that Tildes can maintain civil discourse on this.
For those unfamiliar, for threads on r/BPT that receive an influx of racists and trolls the mods have implemented a sort of soft-lock where only verified users are allowed to post. However, the verification process strikes me as toeing the line of what should be acceptable in an online community. Essentially it breaks down to this:
- Are you black? Give us proof of the color of your skin and you'll be verified and flaired with your race.
- Are you a "non-white POC"? You can be verified but will receive no flair.
- Are you white? Talk to the mods to receive further instructions...
I understand the rationale, but subtly race-gating threads feels icky no matter the reason.
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Hermann Hauser: ARM sale to Nvidia would be a disaster
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The graphing calculator story
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How to not make an ass of yourself in online discussions
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Buried deep in the ice is the GitHub code vault — humanity's safeguard against devastation
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Mozilla signs fresh Google search deal worth mega-millions as 25% staff cut hits Servo, MDN, security teams
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NSA and FBI warn that previously undisclosed Drovorub malware for Linux threatens national security
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Five ways cloud-native application testing is different from testing on-premises software
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Reddit CEO defends their intention to run Trump ads ahead of election, outlines their plans to move comments on ads into subreddits
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Documents from an internal Facebook investigation show that there are thousands of QAnon groups and pages with millions of followers
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Belarus is trying to block parts of the internet amid historic protests
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Android is now the world’s largest earthquake detection network
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The Contentful DevRel team, with guests from Microsoft and Azure, are hosting weekly educational livestreams on GraphQL, React and more. Might be interesting if you are working with GraphQL!
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The clean network: A US Department of State proposal to provide 5G free of China's interference
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Achilles: Over 400 vulnerabilities found in Qualcomm’s Snapdragon DSP chip, threatening the security of hundreds of millions of Android devices
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Trying to build the ultimate Raspberry Pi computer (Zero Terminal v3) - Node
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Microsoft faces complex technical challenges in TikTok carveout
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Can killing cookies save journalism? A Dutch public broadcaster got rid of targeted digital ads and its revenues went up 62-79%.
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Reddit moderator accounts compromised in coordinated hack, hundreds of subreddits vandalized
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Bill Gates on vaccines, Trump, and why social media is “a poisoned chalice”
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US President Donald Trump issues executive orders taking effect in forty-five days that ban "transactions" with Chinese owners of TikTok (ByteDance) and WeChat (Tencent)
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How to be successful in the digital era by adopting the builder ethos
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20GB of Intel's internal source code, schematics, specs, and documents released, allegedly found on an unsecured CDN server
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Journalists’ Twitter use shows them talking within smaller bubbles
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Facebook fired an employee who collected evidence of right-wing pages getting preferential treatment
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Book review: The Revenge of Analog
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Innovative AI physical motion capture and dynamic regeneration algorithm
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Six ways to improve your debugging skills
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Facebook launches Instagram Reels, its TikTok clone
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Google announces Pixel 5, Pixel 4A 5G and Pixel 4A all at once
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Should I give up from programming?
This is gonna be kinda of a personal mess. My background is in film. In Bahia, Brazil. I understand this is a very personal question with numerous factors to take in, some on which I'll absolutely...
This is gonna be kinda of a personal mess.
My background is in film. In Bahia, Brazil.
I understand this is a very personal question with numerous factors to take in, some on which I'll absolutely not be able to convey.
I'm not looking for any definitive life advice because I know that's impossible. I just wanna hear perspectives from some smart people that might help me understand my situation. I've recently been through a (kind of a) life and death situation. I'd be dead or with severe neurological trauma without a helmet.
This made me rethink a lot of stuff about my goals and my life in general. I feel I can confide on Tildes, you people are usually caring and smart and awesome. I'm also a bit emotional, so please be gentle. Spending 24 hours on a hospital bed contemplating death and incapacitation kind does that too with you.
I won't change many details because fuck it, I don't thank there are a lot of people in the world wanting to dox me. And Google already knows everything about me anyway.
I have two very serious psychiatric diagnostics that impart my life in serious ways: bipolar disorder (type II, thankfully) and ADHD. I'm also suspected to be on the autism spectrum but I don't have the means to achieve this diagnostic. It would be useful anyway. These conditions seriously impact my ability to sustain a job for long periods and I have a hard time working with teams bigger than three (sometimes not even than).
I live for free in my mother's conformable apartment, while I she actually spends most of the time on another continent. It's a pretty good deal. But I wanted to be independent.
About two years ago I decided that work in film (my original major) would never provide me the financial independence I needed. Working in film means traveling a lot, infrequent hours, absurd exploration (its common to sleep 4 hours a day), and rampant drug use. I love film and do have a talent for it, but the environment is simply not conducive to my mental health.
Of course, now I realize that computer science may also not be conducive to mental health issues at all. The thing is, really like. When I'm lisping, the real illogical world becames more bearable, and I feel in a wonderland of logic, reason, and calming predictabilidade. This doesn't happen as much with other languages such as Python. I also suck at it. So much that's not even funny. I'm addicted to Linux, Emacs, and the command line, but that's kinda it. I became a Vim/Emacs semi specialist. I don't see myself ever doing anything complex. It this my mind, really!
I've been trying to program for almost 3 years and, beside my super awesome machine, I have nothing to show for myself. I try focusing on using things like Java or Python but I always get sidetracked trying to do some cool shit on Emacs.
Sometimes I wonder if I should just assume that I won't be able to concentrate on anything else and just learn Emacs Lisp for real. It's frowned upon by a lot of people, but Emacs is a wonderful learning environment and at least I would be doing something. Maybe an interesting package that some people would like to use.
Right now my choice seems to be between failing to study things that make me miserable (like OOP), but have clear professional possibilities, or focusing on something I actually like that might make a better programmer in the future.
An important detail: I'm 38 years old and unemployed. My region is not very economically active in that area but I'm afraid to leave it because then I would lose my support network. And the mere notion of being with other people on a daily bases causes me panic attacks.
And, as a reminder, studying programming with bipolar disorder ADHD is hard as fuck. My ADHD is so severe that I constantly forget what I'm doing withing seconds. That's probably why I like Lisp, which is more regular than other languages and I can get things more easily from context.
On the other hand, I'm super charming (and not at all modest hahaha) and interesting at parties because my scattered interests make it possible to contribute meaningfully (and sometimes witty) to pretty much any conversation. My success with women is indirectly proportional to may financial troubles.
Anyway, I know I said this was not about advice, but I kinda lied: what's your advice? Should I keep trying on something I'm not really talented at just because I like it (and it may bring financial rewards in the future).
Or should I just give up and, try my hand at some shorts and even a novel? (I'm currently on a severe writer's block though, but I do have some talent for it).
Maybe I could work from home, be some kind of sysadmin (in which case, what would be the quickest and cheapest way to do so?). I absolutely don't wanna create huge complex products, but managing thinks remotely would be awesome.
I also love philosophy and logic, and, if became suddenly rich, that's what I'd do for the rest of my life. Oh, well.
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TikTok and the Sorting Hat - TikTok's algorithm is so good at organizing users into subcultures that it was able to skip the awkward early phases of new social media
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The Trump campaign is currently spending $5.4 million per week on Facebook ads, almost assuredly making it the platform's largest advertiser
@Judd Legum: The Trump campaign is currently spending $5.4 MILLION PER WEEK on Facebook That's a $280 million annual rate.The Trump campaign is almost certainly Facebook's largest advertiser In 2019, Home Depot was the largest advertiser, spending $178.5 million pic.twitter.com/4BjWknL73H
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27-inch iMac gets a major update
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Data isn't just being collected from your phone. It's being used to score you
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Tilde.Club: I had a couple drinks and woke up with 1,000 nerds
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Big Bird: Transformers for Longer Sequences
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A summary of the developments over the weekend regarding Microsoft's potential acquisition of TikTok
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Beware of Facts Man
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US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin confirms TikTok is under review by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the US following national security concerns
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Seventeen-year-old in Tampa, Florida arrested and accused of "masterminding" the compromises of prominent Twitter accounts on July 15, charged with thirty felonies
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The main Invidious (YouTube frontend) instance is shutting down and Omar Roth is stepping down as project owner
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Facebook showed this ad to 95% women. Is that a problem?
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Bitwarden review
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