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Cake day: December 20th, 2021
  • drspod@lemmy.mltoNews@lemmy.world•Justin Timberlake arrested for DWI in the Hamptons
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    13 days ago

    From the rules:

    All posts must be news articles.

    From the post:

    abcnews.go.com

    QED

    Just because the post complies with one rule doesn’t mean that it is now exempt from all other rules. I already posted the part of the rules which it violates: “No opinion pieces, Listicles, editorials or celebrity gossip is allowed.”

    I’m not sure where you went wrong, but maybe take a few minutes before coming in so hot next time

    What does “coming in so hot” mean? Posting something that you disagree with?

  • drspod@lemmy.mltoFediverse@lemmy.world•I built the first 100% private, on-device "For You" feed on the fediverseEnglish
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    29 days ago

    This is great! Some feedback on UI:

    • The first thing I did was click ⇩ on a post and it prompted me to log-in. This is confusing because I thought I could train the recommender without having to log-in. It took me a minute to find the “Like/Dislike” buttons because they require an extra click to open the post menu. Maybe make the Like/Dislike a bit more prominent and accessible, and find a way to differentiate between the controls for training the recommender and the upvote/downvote actions on the post itself. Or even better, make them the same thing so there’s only one pair of controls and if you’re not logged-in then upvoting just boosts the recommendation but doesn’t actually send the upvote action to the post.
    • Please use actual links (<a href=""></a>) for post navigation so that I can tell my browser to open a link in a new tab. Usually I middle-click to do this (in Firefox) but since the post title and content only respond to javascript events, I can’t middle click to open in a new tab. Clicking the post opens it in the same window.
    • Add text content of posts, or at least a button to expand the text content. Right now text posts are just the post title and I have to click through to read the content.
    • Add alt-text (tooltips) to your buttons. I know what the standard share/bookmark icons look like but it helps to have tooltips to be sure.
    • Add a link to open the original post (on the origin server). Every fediverse UI has this. If you have it too, I couldn’t find it.
    • Allow me to see (and drag) the scrollbar of the main content frame.
    • Add a refresh button (maybe at the top of the feed) so that I can generate more recommended content without having to actually reload the page in the browser.
    • When clicking a community name, I get the community page but I can’t press the back button to go back to the feed.
    • If I “dislike” a post, I don’t expect to see it again after a refresh, or ever.

    Also, it’s a bit late to change it now, but the name is very 2009-internet-startup.

  • drspod@lemmy.mltomemes@lemmy.world•so computer papers don't fall out i think
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    29 days ago

    It was more than just a special icon for a folder, it had special behaviour too. Without looking it up (in the spirit of the meme), I seem to remember that it would automatically sync the files any time that you insert the floppy disk, kind of like having Dropbox but without the internet. The idea being that you would have files on your computer that you could take with you somewhere else (in your briefcase, on a floppy disk) and all instances of that briefcase would automatically sync the latest updates of the files without you having to manually copy them and work out which was the latest version of a file.

  • drspod@lemmy.mlto196@lemmy.blahaj.zone•📄 rule
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    1 month ago

    Correct. A piece of paper with the golden (aspect) ratio would have the property that if you remove the large square (with side length equal to the shortest side of the rectangle) then the remaining rectangle has the same (golden) aspect ratio.

    The ISO216 ratio of 1:sqrt(2) has the property that if you cut the paper in half then both halves have the same aspect ratio as the original larger piece.

    People tend to confuse these two properties as they both involve the remaining rectangle having the same aspect ratio as the original piece, but the process to bisect the sheet is different.

  • drspod@lemmy.mltoPrivacy@lemmy.ml•Blogging in the AI era
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    1 month ago

    Why not post your blogs to a fediverse platform? Do they need to be on a separate hosted system? You’ll probably get more people reading and engaging with your posts if you are just posting to a Mastodon instance rather than hosting on a separate web platform and hoping that people stumble across it.

  • drspod@lemmy.mltoNews@lemmy.world•Four US daycare workers charged with spiking children’s food with melatonin
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    1 month ago

    The article said 7% of all emergency visits (with no qualifier). You said 7% of visits by children which sounds more reasonable. The actual statistic is even more specific than that.

    During 2019–2022, melatonin was implicated in 7% of all ED visits for unsupervised medication exposures by infants and young children.

    - https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/73/wr/pdfs/mm7309a5-H.pdf

    The article links a summary of the wrong CDC report (June 2022) that does not contain this stat. The report that this stat comes from (quoted above) was published in March 2024 by a completely different group of researchers.

    And why did the article say the statistic was for 2012-2021 when the quote statistic refers to the period 2019-2022? Because they’ve conflated another statistic from the same report:

    The prevalence of melatonin use by U.S. adults quintupled from 0.4% during 1999–2000 to 2.1% during 2017–2018 (1). This rise coincided with a 530% increase in poison center calls for pediatric melatonin exposures during 2012–2021 and a 420% increase in emergency department (ED) visits for unsupervised melatonin ingestion by infants and young children during 2009–2020 (2,3).

    It took me about 10 seconds to find the report and verify the stat. It was the first link returned in the search results.

    Journalism really is dead.