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.

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That’s pretty much https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_(protocol). You can explore it through an HTTP proxy like this: https://portal.mozz.us/

That probably means your house/addess isn’t mapped. You can add it yourself at https://www.openstreetmap.org/. Even if you have the map data downloaded, if it’s not in OSM in the first place, CoMaps won’t find it. If your house is on OSM, make sure it has a house number set.

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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++”

The biggest reason is that @jgrim@discuss.online runs it really well. It’s stable, updated frequently as Lemmy is updated, and he’s really responsive to issues like trouble uploading images. I’m also a Lemmy admin on here, and since lemm.ee is going down in large part because of not enough admins, I think it’s good to rehome the community to somewhere that I can help fix that issue if it crops up again.

https://lemm.ee/post/65824884

I’ll plug my home instance of discuss.online. The admin is great, and we’ve got several discussion communities already, one of which I’ve been posting to recently:

!discuss@discuss.online

And another one for casual US-based discussion:

!AskUSA@discuss.online

My inclination is moving it to discuss.online, since that’s my home instance. Does anyone have opinions?

The era of pedantry is finally over:

Direct support for REPL-specific commands like help, exit, and quit, without the need to call them as functions.

Looks like the name came from this comic:

Cyanide & Happiness was originally called Comicazi. The name Comicazi was being used by comic vendors, so I changed the name to Cyanide & Happiness based off the ingredients of back alley cotton candy in one of the earliest comics, as well as to reference Calvin and Hobbes. Couple months after that, Cyanide & Happiness was invited to be on Explosm.net.

So I don’t think this was the original, just an early one.

The artist has had a string of comics where the joke is pretty much just harassment. It worked out here because of the absurdity:

But mostly it’s just been haha harassment:

So this is an iteration on that joke, where the humor is that it’s the girl doing the harassment because it inverts expectations or something. TBH I think this artist is the weakest of the C&H artists and one of the reasons I’ve thought about switching to posting old comics randomly from across all the history instead of sequentially.

To be fair, Python is just glue for code written in lower level languages when it comes to AI

The Vitamin String Quartet does a lot of instrumental covers of heavy music.

You can also try searching streaming services for phrases like “<band> and chill” or “lofi <band>”

For any argument of this nature, you can usually counter it with “ok, you first”, like when policymakers talk about drug testing welfare recipients or the like. Let’s see people like Trump or Musk livestream themselves 24/7 before pushing this on people with less social power.

At any rate, to answer the question, all of the Sovereign Citizen stuff posted over in !insanepeoplefacebook@lemmy.world has been super fascinating. Somehow, the government is all-powerful and hostile, but also if you say a few magic incantations they’ll throw up their hands let you do whatever you want.

you’ll like today’s comic: https://discuss.online/post/19967402

He certainly was a lover:

If anyone’s wondering why:

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0.000005

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5e-7

The joke is that the teal shirt guy did something awkward, and then awkwardly tried to change the subject and drew more attention to himself instead of successfully changing the subject. It’s not a whole lot of joke I think

Yeah, there’s no redeeming quality to this strip. Matt Melvin is the artist and has a series of C&H strips like this and I think is trying to do over-the-top humor like this one but isn’t really getting it:

If anyone thinks we should do a different posting order for the old ones (i.e. random from all of C&H instead of sequential), it’d be good to hear feedback here: https://discuss.online/post/17098553