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12mo ago

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m_‮f @discuss.online 12mo ago

Disable user-select: none; (and variants) on body to be able to select text again. I like the idea of a blog post that calls out something annoying and demonstrates the annoyance inline, though

1y ago

Groundcover for a Midwest lawn

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m_‮f @discuss.online 1y ago

Not sure what type of grass, it was there when we moved in. White clover

1y ago

Groundcover for a Midwest lawn

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m_‮f @discuss.online 1y ago

My lawn has grass, clover, and violets, with a few other random plants. The violets are great and look nice and don't really need mowing. The clover and grass eventually require mowing, but not moreso than just pure grass.

1y ago

Is funnier if you've read about blue zones

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m_‮f @discuss.online 1y ago

Copying my comment from the cross-post:

Turns out the blue zone studies have likely just identified hotspots for pension fraud:

The observation of individuals attaining remarkable ages, and their concentration into geographic sub-regions or ‘blue zones’, has generated considerable scientific interest. Proposed drivers of remarkable longevity include high vegetable intake, strong social connections, and genetic markers. Here, we reveal new predictors of remarkable longevity and ‘supercentenarian’ status. In the United States, supercentenarian status is predicted by the absence of vital registration. The state-specific introduction of birth certificates is associated with a 69-82% fall in the number of supercentenarian records. In Italy, England, and France, which have more uniform vital registration, remarkable longevity is instead predicted by poverty, low per capita incomes, shorter life expectancy, higher crime rates, worse health, higher deprivation, fewer 90+ year olds, and residence in remote, overseas, and colonial territories. In England and France, higher old-age poverty rates alone predict more than half of the regional variation in attaining a remarkable age. Only 18% of ‘exhaustively’ validated supercentenarians have a birth certificate, falling to zero percent in the USA, and supercentenarian birthdates are concentrated on days divisible by five: a pattern indicative of widespread fraud and error. Finally, the designated ‘blue zones’ of Sardinia, Okinawa, and Ikaria corresponded to regions with low incomes, low literacy, high crime rate and short life expectancy relative to their national average. As such, relative poverty and short lifespan constitute unexpected predictors of centenarian and supercentenarian status and support a primary role of fraud and error in generating remarkable human age records.

1y ago

What is your opinion on national pride / patriotism?

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m_‮f @discuss.online 1y ago

This is a good commentary on it:

It's good to want to improve the world around you, which can be given a label of patriotism. Going too far down that road leads to lots of unhappiness, though.

1y ago

Use this information wisely

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m_‮f @discuss.online 1y ago

; and ; respectively, in case anyone wants to see how it renders on their machine and is also lazy.

1y ago

xkcd #3120: Geologic Periods

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m_‮f @discuss.online 1y ago

Related to the title text, some people are into that sort of thing:

Phantom time conspiracy theory is a pseudohistorical conspiracy theory first asserted by Heribert Illig in 1991. It hypothesizes a conspiracy by the Holy Roman Emperor Otto III and Pope Sylvester II to fabricate the Anno Domini dating system retroactively, in order to place them at the special year of AD 1000, and to rewrite history to legitimize Otto's claim to the Holy Roman Empire. Illig believed that this was achieved through the alteration, misrepresentation and forgery of documentary and physical evidence. According to this scenario, the entire Carolingian period, including the figure of Charlemagne, is a fabrication, with a "phantom time" of 297 years (AD 614–911) added to the Early Middle Ages.

1y ago

What kind of communities would you like to see either created or become more active on Lemmy?

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m_‮f @discuss.online 1y ago

Thanks, that would be great! And even if you don't post anything, comments are always appreciated

1y ago

What kind of communities would you like to see either created or become more active on Lemmy?

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m_‮f @discuss.online 1y ago

I've been posting things I find interesting to !discuss@discuss.online. I'm trying to grow it as a community that can have conversations about a broad range of interesting topics, without having to subscribe to a bunch of narrowly-focused communities. Think something like Hacker News or lobste.rs, but without the tech bro mindset.

1y ago

How come Lemmy rarely shows up in internet search results?

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m_‮f @discuss.online 1y ago

I've seen my own posts show up in specific search results based on the transcripts, which is nice to see. Tried searching for "Great Scott! The hatch is opening" on Google just now and it linked to my post at https://discuss.online/post/14315116. That's probably a bit of an issue actually. The link is for lemmy.dbzer0.com for my user on midwest.social to a community on lemmy.world and I just linked to it from discuss.online. Those might each be ranked independently even though it's the same content, vs all being ranked together if it's all centralized on one site like Reddit. Not really that hard to adjust for, but if Google doesn't care in the first place because they think they'll get fewer ad impressions out of it then it won't be changed.

Kagi has a feature for specifically searching the fediverse. It's a paid search engine, but IMO that ends up with their incentives aligned with mine.

1y ago

What do you think the red, green, and blue potions in Zelda would be if they were irl? What would they "restore"

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m_‮f @discuss.online 1y ago

Related SMBC:

1y ago

Something something history is a flat circle

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m_‮f @discuss.online 1y ago

Relevant comment

I don't use Rust much, but I agree with the thrust of the article. However, I do think that the borrowchecker is the only reason Rust actually caught on. In my opinion, it's really hard for a new language to succeed unless you can point to something and say "You literally can't do this in your language"
Without something like that, I think it just would have been impossible for Rust to gain enough momentum, and also attract the sort of people that made its culture what it is.
Otherwise, IMO Rust would have ended up just like D, a language that few people have ever used, but most people who have heard of it will say "apparently it's a better safer C++, but I'm not going to switch because I can technically do all that stuff in C++"

1y ago

Mouse recommendations

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m_‮f @discuss.online 1y ago

Blue ball model (also comes with gray ball option)

Gray ball model

I've got both and the gray ball model is definitely nicer. It's got a wedge and a magnetic plate for picking an angle for ergonomic reasons. It generally feels nicer and has some neat things like a button for switching connections which is handy if you watch to use it with multiple computers. It also uses USB-C to charge (specifically the "MX Ergo S", not the "MX Ergo" which is the older version and used micro usb).

If you're new to trackballs though and just want to try them out, the cheaper model is perfect serviceable.