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A poker face can be useful at a card table, but ordinary social life rewards a different strategy. Scientific American’s April 2025 article “Why People Like Expressive Faces” argues that smiles, raised eyebrows, frowns and other facial movements do more than advertise emotion. They make a person easier to interpret, and that apparent readability can make others like them more.

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Techmeme surfaced OpenAI’s August 14 documentation for Computer History, a macOS feature that turns activity across apps and websites into a timeline and memories that ChatGPT and Codex can use. The original URL is OpenAI’s documentation page, which explains both the workflow and the privacy model.

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China’s property slump has forced local governments to rethink a development model that once seemed inexhaustible. For years, cities raised cash by selling land for new construction. With home prices down and developers retreating, that source of revenue has collapsed. Officials are now looking inward: cataloguing public property, repairing neglected sites and trying to earn more from assets the state already owns.

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Tim Hortons employee won’t face criminal charges in death of customer (r/news)

• centipededamascus: Imagine finding out your grandmother died because she started a fight with the staff at a Tim Horton’s.
• RudolftheDuck: Ripped a chunk of the employee’s hair out and then put it in her purse. She took it like it was a trophy. For 75 that’s not very mature.
• MagicTheBurrito: I feel bad for the young employees. Hopefully they don’t blame themselves. The entitlement by some of the older folks are ridiculous. Especially in “customer service” settings. Source: am a server in a retirement town in Florida.

Two people are dead after a military helicopter crashes in Texas, sparking a fire (r/news)

• igetproteinfartsHELP: It was the AH-64 U.S. Army Apache attack helicopter
• IneptFortitude: This seems to be happening a little more regularly than usual
• john-know-nothing: The political comments in this thread are unhinged. I’ve worked in these Army heli units and the maintenance and operational schedules are insane. This stuff happens more than it should, yes, but the problem environment for it existed well before this administration, and the one before it as well.

People over 35: What is something you invested a massive amount of time or money into in your 20s that turned out to be a complete waste? (r/AskReddit)

• Bodgerpoo: My job at the time. I prioritised it over spending time with family. I wish I hadn’t done that.
• cantfrag: Avoiding things that made me anxious, instead of confronting them. I missed out on so much socialization and so many opportunities because of my anxiety - I started to really challenge it in my mid 20’s, but I still mourn the complete waste of lost time.
• ThatCarlosGuy: Seeing people say their hobbies are a complete waste is sad. Hobbies are what get you through day to day. That’s NOT a waste imo.

Married people of Reddit, what’s your most unhinged marriage hack? (r/AskReddit)

• pzschrek1: If your marriage is getting stale, start a feud with another couple. Nothing restores marital solidarity like having mutual enemies
• EvilAbed57: We both suck at deciding on low stakes stuff, so we have a rule. If we can’t pick a movie or show to watch within a strict 5 minutes (we literally set a timer), we have to watch Sharknado.
• needmoredoggos: [We’ve agreed that I’m the boss of him and he’s the boss of me. But only when one of us is refusing to do something for ourselves that we need to do.

For example: putting off making an appointment with the dentist? “I’m the boss of you and I say you have to call them.” Boom, gotta call the dentist, the boss said so.

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Staff is the new Senior now (Blind)

• carpet2 (Microsoft): Senior is the new Staff now*
• fish 🐠 (Lyft): Senior Staff is the new Senior actually. Staff is the new mid-level. Senior is the new entry-level. Anything below that is intern.
• gkdnwodrnn (ex-Amazon): Senior is the new staff, staff promos and interviews are harder across the board What you’re describing is 2021 Covid market where anyone was getting in as senior or staff

Being polite to LLMs (Blind)

• Maximum10! (Vanta): I am still being polite out of habit. I don’t see why you would not be. Maybe skipping a thank you or please occasionally to minimize typing, but I don’t see why anyone would try to be impolite.
• c8ycyloy (Salesforce): I’m still polite. Old habits die hard. I figure it’s fine to stay in practice lest I start being super curt to people 😂
• griwi029 (Pixar): [I am polite because it doesn’t cost me any more money or time or effort to be nice than it does to be a prick, and the latter doesn’t make it work any better. It’s how I converse normally and it’d be an effort to be rude.

I see the people whose prompts are abusive and cruel and wonder how damaged they are to be like that and I bet they would treat humans the same way if they could. Power over another shows a person’s true nature, frequently.](https://www.teamblind.com/post/being-polite-to-llms-jx0goiws#comment-51665866)

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Quick facts

• Difficulty: MEDIUM
• Problem: Basic Calculator II
• Topics: Math, String, Stack

Problem gist

The input is a valid arithmetic expression containing non-negative integers, spaces, and the four operators +, -, *, and /. The task is to evaluate it without using eval or a similar built-in expression evaluator. Multiplication and division must happen before addition and subtraction, and integer division must truncate toward zero.

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Social isolation is usually framed as a private injury: a person lacks close friends and suffers the consequences. Psychologists Angelica Puzio Ferrara and Dylan Vergara argue that this picture is incomplete. When a man’s social world narrows, the women closest to him may become responsible for holding it together, often at a cost to their own time, autonomy and well-being.

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Techmeme surfaced TechCrunch’s August 13 report, “In a first, US will allow some private firms to carry out cyberattacks.” The article examines an August 12 presidential memorandum that creates a federal program for vetted American companies to conduct offensive cyber operations against foreign criminal organizations.

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The European Union’s carbon market was designed to make pollution expensive without prescribing exactly how firms should cut it. That elegant idea is now colliding with industrial politics. As carbon permits become scarcer and costlier, governments fear that the policy meant to clean up European production will instead push factories, jobs and investment elsewhere.

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Multiple USS Abraham Lincoln sailors have tried to go overboard amid extended deployment, families say (r/news)

• traceyh415: My father was deployed for six months with no port of call during the Cuban missile crisis. It changed him as a person. He would NEVER wait in lines, did not like confined spaces, did not really like to be around people that much. My understanding is that it was like doing a jail sentence especially the way they were isolated from outside communication.
• AstralElement: As someone who was stationed on this very ship 23 years ago on a year long deployment, I really feel for these sailors. Deployment sucks, extended deployment really sucks. Your whole life is on pause. You can’t be with your family, you often have few friends, the food is often not great and really bad watch rotations if you’re early in your Naval career. The only saving grace for me with videogames and reading. People talk about how big they are, but it gets really small really fast. You don’t really have internet, maybe some email… that’s it.
• Whatdoesthibattahndo: We’ve never had a carrier from this era deployed for this long. Things are going to break in ways we didn’t even know they could break. Normal schedule is 6 months deployed, 6 months work-up, 6 months qualification and preparation for the next deployment. USS Lincoln is probably going to need longer and some maintenance might have to be pulled forward due to increased wear without proper work.

AP Exclusive: ICE plans to give officers gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks (r/news)

• One-Environment-1444: These are good to repel people. You shock them and they want to get away. But people are already trying to get away from ICE not attack them. So these will mostly be used for holding someone down and shocking them while they are already in custody. I bet there is no way to determine when they have been used also. You watch.
• HallucinogenicFish: [The manufacturer warns the device should not be used as punishment, against people merely exhibiting “verbal defiance or belligerence” or on high-risk populations such as children, pregnant women or elderly or disabled people.

ICE agents will use this list like a bingo card.](https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/1vlxppb/comment/p3555l8/)