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- 2009 Red Dawn remake originally filmed to use China as the invaders but was edited to use North Korea afterwards [0] - Apparently the same thing was done for the 2011 game Homefront [0]

[0] https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-et-china-red-dawn-2...

https://www.justwatch.com may be close to what you are imagining, though it's a bandaid over the problem you describe.

Could Uber make their new employees sign non-compete agreements after the law is passed? A lot of drivers drive for both companies now. Will this restrict drivers to drive for just one company?

I haven't played Portal, but, based on what I've seen of Portal, Human Fall Flat may be similar. You solve puzzles in a 3d world to get through stages of the game. It's pretty fun.

William Shirer was an American living in Germany during Hitler's reign. Here's what he said about how successful propaganda can be:

"I myself was to experience how easily one is taken in by a lying and censored press and radio in a totalitarian state. Though unlike most Germans I had daily access to foreign newspapers, especially those of London, Paris and Zurich, which arrived the day after publication, and though I listened regularly to the BBC and other foreign broadcasts, my job necessitated the spending of many hours a day in combing the German press, checking the German radio, conferring with Nazi officials and going to party meetings. It was surprising and sometimes consternating to find that notwithstanding the opportunities I had to learn the facts and despite one’s inherent distrust of what one learned from Nazi sources, a steady diet over the years of falsifications and distortions made a certain impression on one’s mind and often misled it. No one who has not lived for years in a totalitarian land can possibly conceive how difficult it is to escape the dread consequences of a regime’s calculated and incessant propaganda. Often in a German home or office or sometimes in a casual conversation with a stranger in a restaurant, a beer hall, a café, I would meet with the most outlandish assertions from seemingly educated and intelligent persons. It was obvious that they were parroting some piece of nonsense they had heard on the radio or read in the newspapers. Sometimes one was tempted to say as much, but on such occasions one was met with such a stare of incredulity, such a shock of silence, as if one had blasphemed the Almighty, that one realized how useless it was even to try to make contact with a mind which had become warped and for whom the facts of life had become what Hitler and Goebbels, with their cynical disregard for truth, said they were."

[edit] The quote is from The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany, which is very good and a surprisingly easy read for how long it is.

As a replacement for Google images, Wikimedia Commons is pretty good[0]. I made a image search site backed by Wikimedia Commons data with a UI more like Google Images[1].

[0] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page [1] https://canweimage.com

I worked on a data dashboard site that embedded Tableau workbooks. I found their JS API to be decent for embedding workbooks[0]. I used what Tableau calls "Trusted Authentication" to handle the authentication to Tableau Server[1]. It's harder if they are using Tableau Online.

[0] https://onlinehelp.tableau.com/current/api/js_api/en-us/Java... [1] https://onlinehelp.tableau.com/current/server/en-us/trusted_...

Besides finding it more reliable in general than alternatives I've tried, Zoom is the only conference software I've found that allows me to share my screen on Linux.

I created this site to help me better understand flexbox: flexbox.help. Also did grids.help for CSS grids.

I created a related tool for testing different combinations of CSS grid rules. http://grids.help/

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64369.Mindfulness_in_Pla... was good. I read it twice in a row. It actually delivers on the promise of being for beginners.

I have this with my current employer. The problem I see si that when I ask for time off, it feels like I'm asking for a favor. Might just be my superiors. I kind of wish it were more like "I have x number of days off left for the year, I'd like to take some of those in October." I still get a generous amount of time off each year, but it's awkward every time I make the request.

edit: Check out mrguyorama's comment. They said what I was trying to say in a much better way.

Assuming GP means "limit screen time" when they say "restrict screen time", then you can still have a healthy relationship with technology. A child with limited screen time will still know how to use a computer, phone, etc. Like most of us, the kids I know gravitate to tech. junk food. So unrestricted/unlimited access to screens would probably lead to an unhealthy relationship. And GP wouldn't be in bad company.[0]

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/11/fashion/steve-jobs-apple-... - Steve Jobs, Chris Anderson, and Evan WIlliams limit/limited kids' screen time [1] https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/23/apple-ceo-tim-cook-dont-let-... (Speaking at Harlow College in the U.K., Apple CEO Tim Cook warned against “overuse” of technology, and said he didn’t want young members of his own family to use social media.)

I just built one partly for this purpose. I went with AMD's new Ryzen 1700. It has 8 cores and 16 threads. More threads are great if your application can use them. My understanding is that TensorFlow, for example, does[1]. i7s do better in applications that only use a single thread, but you get a really good cost/performance ratio for multi-threaded work from Ryzen [2]. The 1700 also comes with a serviceable air cooler, so you save some money there too.

The other components are a geforce 1060, Asus Prime X370-pro (lowest-priced x370 motherboard), and 16gb ram.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/39395198/configuring-ten... [2] https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd-ryze...

edit: added other specs

HardOCP has a video showing the boost: https://youtu.be/9ZLfJcHEMog.

>S3 would be an ideal backup but I'd need to code up the system to manage revision and life cycle, that becomes a job which I might as well create my own Dropbox...

Might be worth looking into Duplicati [1]. You choose the backend, and it does the other things you mention ("Backup files and folders with strong AES-256 encryption. Save space with incremental backups and data deduplication. Run backups on any machine through the web-based interface or via command line interface. Duplicati has a built-in scheduler and auto-updater.")

[1]: https://www.duplicati.com/

Apropos Dune quote: "Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them."

Like others have said, I made these for myself, but they have been useful to other people as well.

Search Wikimedia Commons: canweimage.com (300 - 600 searches a day)

Testing flexbox rules: flexbox.help

Googley Eyes Firefox addon: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/googley-eyes/

Can We Image got included in a listicle on Buffer's blog. flexbox.help started getting use after I posted it as a Show HN and it got picked up by HTML Weekly.

This is the kind of thing I was interested in when I made Googley Eyes [0]. Googley Eyes makes a record of whether the pages I visit do or do not send info about me to Google. Of the 11,571 pages I visited over the last couple of months, Google knows about 52% of them.

[0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/googley-eyes/

Code is at https://bitbucket.org/tayler/google-spy

Probably not a coincidence that the Echo is on sale today[0].

[0] www.amazon.com/Amazon-SK705DI-Echo/dp/B00X4WHP5E

Just read about Andy Grove yesterday in The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution by Walter Isaacson. Great book (though its thesis and the story in the book would contradict the assertion that a single man built Silicon Valley).

I think flexbox is a great tool. I spent some time learning and using it, but I found it hard to remember the names of the different properties. I created http://flexbox.help as an easy way to remember and check their effects.

Found some great resources that I can put to use today. Thanks! Agree that a switch from red would be a nice change.

It's great to see light scaffolding like this. A lot of times you just want a nice foundation instead of the kitchen sink. Good work!

Great points. Thanks for the feedback.

I ended up deciding on yearly pricing to keep processing costs down. Each charge is .30 + 2.9%, so it's cheaper for me if I only charge once a year. Monthly pricing is something I'm going to have to really consider. Or maybe a free month to get started. Thanks for the perspective.

My email provider (Mandrill) allows you to choose whether you want to track opens on each email you send. I'm guessing they use some sort of tracking pixel. So you still get the poems in your inbox, but they watch their servers for if that pixel was requested.

Thanks for the feedback!

After I started building Poetry Every Day, I ran across that very site. I continued building because I think they attract a different type of reader than I am envisioning would be interested in Poetry Every Day. The focus of Poetry Every Day is providing poetry that has stood the test of time. The focus of the American Academy of Poets is to showcase its (living) members' work, interspersed with some classic poetry. That's not at all a bad thing, but I think there are people who are interested in classic poetry that are not interested in contemporary poetry. Those are the people I created Poetry Every Day for.

I made canweimage.com to solve some of the pain points with generic image search engines in mind. All search results come from Wikimedia, so licensing is usually pretty liberal. You can also limit results to public domain only. No images on Wikimedia are watermarked, that I have seen.

Strict search is the only option on canweimage. It's not full proof either, but I check every file name in the results against a very long list of NSFW words and phrases. Any matches are filtered out.

While you'll still be dealing with dimension issues yourself, each result displays its dimensions. That can help pick more appropriate sizes.