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Requesting resources for learning Ruby
Does anyone here have experience with Ruby programming? More specifically mRuby or DragonRuby for game programming?
I came across DragonRuby as free for its 7th anniversary and I’m considering checking it out, but I have no experience with the Ruby programming language itself.
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"content": "There will be much more pragmatic resources in other comments, but if you're feeling a lack of whimsy in your life and also want to learn some Ruby, I must recommend _why's poignant guide.\n\nIt's hard to describe witho... | {
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Child-locked devices exist and it’s up to parents not to give their kids an unlocked device. The industry could help by making child-locked devices easier to set up and by making sure they don’t sell unlocked devices to kids. If you do that, no age-verification of people is necessary except at checkout when buying a de... | {
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"content": "This is the only acceptable solution to the \"problem\".\n\nThe government can ask for voluntary compliance right down to the operating system level. Microsoft, Apple, and Google will be happy to set this up. A simple c... | {
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We cannot accept a world where every adult is expected to hand over ID as the price of going online.
Requiring sending a document to social media/a third party, which is used to identify, and act on the behalf of an individual, just to check a birthday seems overkill to say the least.
On the other hand, turning the m... | {
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"content": "I hope some form of zero knowledge proof is viable for this application\n\nIt is, and the EU app mentioned in this article is already zero knowledge and open source (though it has flaws that need to be addressed as poin... | {
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I have probably already posted here abou Czech system that could be used for age verification. It's called MojeID (MyID) and is based on OpenID but actually isn't about anonymity, quite the contrary - it identifies you as who you really are. It is run by CZ.NIC - Czech NIC which is non-profit and it must be for such se... | {
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"content": "The Nederlands has something similar called DigiD. I agree the way you recommend if something must be implemented, then this is the least worst option. Honestly if any entity is going to resist the bribery lobbying of t... | {
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CGA-2026-04 🕹️🚀🧑🚀 REMOVE CARTRIDGE ⏏️ Space Rogue
Hello there, space rogue! It's time to dock with the mothership, put a glide in your stride and a dip in your hip, and report to us about your adventures.
Did you play Space Rogue? Did you uncover the mysteries of the universe? Did you conquer Hive? Did you forge... | {
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"content": "I played this for several hours, but did not get very far at all. I played the C64 version, which sounds like it was easier to set up compared to the DOS one. Saving to disk worked, and with the hacked cartridge version... | {
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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.
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"content": "Widow's Bay (2026) is a new comedy horror show that is definitely worth watching... at least so far.\n\nDirected by Hiro Murai (Atlanta, Barry, Mr & Mrs Smith) and written by Katie Dippold (Mad TV, Parks and Rec), and s... | {
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And I'll continue to buy older cars that I can repair myself and don't watch my every move. Not because I drive under the influence of anything, but because all this unserviceable, unreasonable, and intrusive bullshit just makes cars obsolete faster.
Nothing like being unable to rush to the hospital in an emergency be... | {
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"content": "I was shouting and swearing fixing my 2004 just last week, swearing I was going to get rid of it. But this just reminds me I need to keep it going as long as I can. Unfortunately, it's getting to the point where I'm beg... | {
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Boy, I sure do feel lucky that I have tools and knowledge to keep my old junker motorcycle driving for decades to come.
Possibly preaching to the choir here, since this is Tildes and most of us are former Redditors disgruntled with its enshittification. But this needs said:
The world does not heed the powerless. Howe... | {
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"content": "Eh, I'm good. I don't particularly care about cars. I don't want to know about cars. I wouldn't own one if it weren't required in the US. I'll just continue the strategy of \"buy new reliable car and pay other people to... | {
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Wasnt there just an article a few days ago where NHTSA said these systems are unreliable and that the tech isn't there yet? Seems like a boneheaded move but I shouldn't expect different from our administration. | {
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"content": "This law was passed in 2021 under Biden in the INVEST in America Act."
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"content": "The timeline of negotiations and its passage on Wikiped... | {
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Infrared cameras and sensors will monitor eye movement
"Oh say, can you see"
You can't buy a car any more. Only a rolling computer.
If the AI determines you’re impaired (blood alcohol ≥0.08% or showing fatigue),
Wait wait wait. Just how will the car measure blood alcohol level? Continuous in-cabin air testing? Intr... | {
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"content": "Wait wait wait. Just how will the car measure blood alcohol level?\n\nhttps://tildes.net/~transport/1twf/nhtsa_tells_us_congress_advanced_impaired_driving_detection_tech_isnt_ready"
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Well hmmmm.
There are multiple posts here about how scary it is that cars are/will be spying on us and we are losing freedom.
And I agree but I’m not very annoyed by all the nanny stuff in new cars. Maybe I’ve watched too many episodes of “Not Just Cars” so I’m getting over my “car brain” anyway. Here is my hot take:... | {
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"content": "None of this justifies further encursions on privacy. While driving is a privilege, one of the few aspects of the 4th Amendment that law enforcement hasn't found a reliable workaround for is the juridical precedent rega... | {
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Not sure how I feel about a continuation after they left the show in a pretty good place.
Hopefully it's still got things to say and isn't just a cash-grab? | {
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"content": "This is my take as well. Seasons 1-3 wrapped up arcs very well and was a very great contained story. I'm hoping it doesn't go the way of other shows that overstayed their welcome because they kept wanting to cash in. I'... | {
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How is it even financially viable to build a new gas plant right now? Utah is in the desert. There’s a lot of sun. The economics don’t make sense to me. | {
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"content": "Utah is in the desert. There’s a lot of sun. The economics don’t make sense to me.\n\nIt sounds crazy, but I think it makes sense. Look at the sheer scale - this is more than some multi-block nuclear powerplants produce... | {
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"China built 400 gigawatts of new power over the last 24 months, and much of it is powering AI data centers," O'Leary told the board, according to the Salt Lake Tribune. "We're in a race with them."
Is AI is the new cold war? Am I late to the party? What's it going to take to win? What will it look like to lose? I've ... | {
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"content": "Is AI is the new cold war?\n\nIt’s an arms race, and I mean that in the most literal sense."
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"content": "Is AI is the new cold war?\n\nI t... | {
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US regulator to review Disney broadcast licences after Jimmy Kimmel joke about Melania Trump
Disney v US Is a fight I kind of want to see. | {
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"content": "One is a hulking monolith wealthier than every other nation and writes our laws. But the other is the US government, so it’s a close fight."
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I'm setting a personal theme for my Backlog Burner choices: Anything But Steam.
Nothing against Steam (I love it... mostly), but because I tend to do the bulk of my gaming there, my other libraries can feel a little bit ignored. So, for this Backlog Burner I'll be playing backlog games located anywhere besides Steam.
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"content": "That's a good idea to include non-Steam games. I have tons of games I likely received free on GOG and Epic. Might even have a console game or two that I haven't played or barely played. But I never look at them for Back... | {
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J-Chiptunator here, back with more Backlog Burner shenanigans for May 2026! This time, I'm changing things up quite a bit.
In the past, I've mostly used my MiSTer FPGA setup for tinkering and configuring cores, adjusting upscalers, trying things for a few minutes, then moving on. Not exactly meaningful playtime... so ... | {
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"content": "Cool approach. I always love to see more community involvement.\n\nFor my votes, I need to start with Donkey Kong Country. I love DKC - all three games - and if I had my way, it's all you'd be playing.\n\nStar Fox 2 als... | {
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I can't believe it's been 6 months. Since I don't think I'll be able to hit anywhere near the volume of games I did last time, I'll make it easy on myself with a 3x3 flow card. My real goal has always been to force myself to write something coherent every week anyway, so the abstractness of the flow board will hopefull... | {
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"content": "I'm taking it a little bit easier this time too. I wore myself out last November, so I plan to stick to just 1 (one!) bingo card and make the most of it.\n\nLetting abstract concepts spur on new ideas is exactly what we... | {
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I'm not participating per se, please don't include me in the ping list.
I participate throughout the whole year. Since I got my Steam Deck, actually since I got Switch Lite, I play only one game at a time. This ensures I don't add games to backlog and actually I finish the games I had for a long time. Since then I fin... | {
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"content": "If you feel like sharing some thoughts on the games you've been playing, you're still welcome to stop by and leave a comment. The Backlog Burner is very much \"play your own way\". For example, you can drop in to let us... | {
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So on a whim in the past hour I cooked up a very custom card because I wasn't in the mental space to do something regular as I have other projects I want to work on, but still want to get through my backlog. The good news is I haven't added to my backlog at least as I haven't bought any games so far this year.
Bingo C... | {
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"content": "I’m now incredibly invested in your card simply because I want to know what all of these mean! I’m excited to get answers as you play games.\n\nAlso I laughed at RNGesus Take the Wheel. Amazing."
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Are we at the point yet where we've all acknowledged the steaming cesspool that windows has become? Obviously not. Saying it as someone that would have NEVER expected to willingly prefer a Mac or OS X back when I was forced onto my first Apple device back in ~2011.
If apple forcefully reclaimed the enthusiast market b... | {
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"content": "If apple forcefully reclaimed the enthusiast market by making the hardware repairable, that would be an unstoppable juggernaut.\n\nApple provides self repair kits for their devices. Ones that are more difficult to repai... | {
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Apple set to become third-biggest laptop maker this year
What's even more stark is the raw numbers: every laptop manufacturer is estimated to have a YoY dip, while Apple has a 21% increase from 23m to 28m. | {
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"content": "Before covid our company to buy Macs only for special roles/purposes.\n\nNow we only buy non-macs for special purposes.\n\nYou're exactly right: It's hard to overstate how huge the change has been.\n\nApple is also maki... | {
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Hopefully competitors start to learn from Apple. I forsee consolidation of the PC manufacturer market before then. | {
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"content": "How do you mean? Everything I want is the opposite of Apple's pro-bullying and walled garden corporate mentality."
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"content": "I ended up ... | {
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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 spoilers if you can. | {
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"content": "I put on Caught Stealing last night not expecting too much out of it (I planned to work while it was on in the background) but I ended up very much enjoying it, actually. If I hadn't known going in that it was an Aronof... | {
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Pharmacogenetics personalised medicine: new frontier or nonsense?
Apparently my private health insurance covers pharmacogenetics testing to find the best ADHD medication. What is it, is it legit? What's the company going to do with my cheek swabs? How do doctors feel about me going up to them and say hey internet phar... | {
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"content": "Genetic testing for predicting response to various pharmaceutical interventions is mostly about gene variants that impact drug metabolism, not necessarily drug response or likelihood of all serious side effects (e.g. dr... | {
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I love bioparks
I recently visited Albuquerque and spent almost a full day at their botanical gardens. It was awesome and made realize how much I love bioparks.
Of all the attractions a city may have, they always delight and never leave me conflicted like I feel at zoos and aquariums.
So I ask the people of Tides: w... | {
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"content": "The Singapore Botanic Gardens (official site / wiki) are really great and recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It's a beautiful garden, clean and well maintained, with an incredible diversity of plants and enviro... | {
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Need help making an atlas-styled map without ultramega distortion
Hey, tildes - cqns here.
I know tildes ain't never do me no wrong (apologies for the heavy colloquialism), but I've been working off and on with a worldbuilding project for the past decade and a half. Some four years ago, I finally hunkered down and cr... | {
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"content": "Check out Wikipedia's List of map projections. I assume the ones labeled \"equal-area\" are what you need, but you can read the \"Key\" section on that page for explanation of other types. The main article on Map projec... | {
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"target_policy": "generate_discussion_tree_only",
"topic_id36": "1ty2",
"group": "~creative",
"posted_at": "2026-04-29T15:34:18Z",
"votes": 24,
"tags": [
"ask.advice",
"worldbuilding",
"maps"
],
"link_url":... |
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Dataset Card for tildes-structured_WIP
Dataset Summary
This is a partial, structurally validated supervised fine-tuning dataset derived
from the Tildes thread-only curation pipeline. It was generated from the first
3,884 checkpointed source topics of the full_v1 run and contains 2,577 usable
training records after root curation, input-author subtree scrubbing, and
post-scrub trainability checks.
The intended training shape is:
input: a source-only, user-like root prompt.discussion.nodes: a multi-author tree/forest of source discussion posts.metadata: provenance, curation, and audit fields not intended as model input.
There is no final-answer or output target. The intended SFT task is
input -> discussion.
This preflight slice is suitable for testing training templates, data loaders,
upload tooling, and downstream dataset consumers. It should not be treated as
the final full_v1 dataset.
Dataset Details
- Language: English
- Source website: https://tildes.net
- Source crawl date: 2026-05-03
- Derived split:
structured_preflight_3884 - Primary data file:
tildes.parquet - Companion source JSONL:
tildes.jsonl - Records: 2,577
- Discussion nodes: 26,789
- Blank discussion nodes: 5
- Rows with
outputfield: 0 - Rows with
u0indiscussion.nodes: 0
Root policy counts:
| Root policy | Records |
|---|---|
topic_root |
903 |
standalone_top_level |
1,178 |
topic_context_top_level |
496 |
Split status counts:
| Split status | Records |
|---|---|
original |
903 |
split |
1,674 |
Text volume:
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Input characters | 2,478,840 |
| Input nonblank characters | 2,034,051 |
| Discussion node characters | 16,136,506 |
| Discussion node nonblank characters | 13,238,627 |
| Minimum discussion nodes per record | 1 |
| Maximum discussion nodes per record | 275 |
Parquet conversion:
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Parquet file size | 8.0 MB |
| Rows | 2,577 |
| Row groups | 1 |
| Max uncompressed row group size | 18.5 MB |
| Compression | ZSTD |
Dataset Structure
Each row has the following top-level fields:
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
input |
string | Source-only prompt intended to read like something a person might ask an assistant |
discussion.nodes |
list | Source discussion tree/forest after input-author subtree scrubbing |
metadata |
object | Source, curation, filtering, and audit metadata |
Each discussion node has:
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
id |
string | Per-example node ID, reindexed as n0, n1, etc. |
parent |
string or null | Parent node ID inside the same example |
author |
string | Per-example anonymised author ID starting at u1 |
content |
string | Source comment body text |
Important format choices:
- The root/user prompt is stored as
input, not as a discussion node. - Discussion node authors start at
u1;u0is reserved conceptually for the prompt author and does not appear indiscussion.nodes. - New rows omit
outputentirely. metadatais for auditing and curation; it is not intended as model input.
Uses
This preflight slice is most appropriate for:
- smoke-testing SFT data loaders and chat templates,
- validating Parquet upload and viewer behavior,
- running small pilot training jobs,
- checking downstream consumers before the full dataset is generated.
It is not intended as:
- the final
full_v1dataset, - a complete assistant instruction-following dataset,
- a final-answer or QA dataset,
- a safety-filtered assistant dataset,
- a factual benchmark.
Bias, Risks, and Limitations
The dataset inherits the risks of the public Tildes crawl, including offensive language, misinformation, sensitive topics, copyrighted quotations, and personally identifying information inside post content.
The source text is anonymised only in structured author fields. Exact source
text, URLs, topic IDs, quotations, names, or handles may still appear in content
or metadata.
DeepSeek was used only for root and branch appraisal. It did not generate, rewrite, summarise, or trim training text. However, its decisions influence which records appear in this slice.
Because this is a partial preflight slice, distributions by topic, group, prompt style, and discussion shape may differ from the final full run.
License and Redistribution
No license was identified for the source forum content. This derived dataset is
therefore marked as license: unknown.
The dataset consists of transformed public forum posts authored by third parties. Users are responsible for determining whether their intended use is lawful, including with respect to copyright, privacy, data protection, and platform terms.
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