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will_a113@lemmy.mlto
Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What was a fact taught to you in school that has been proven false during your lifetime?English
7·2 years agoGene sequencing wasn’t really a thing (at least an affordable thing) until the 2010s, but once it was widely available archaeologists started using it on pretty much anything they could extract a sample from. Suddenly it became possible to track the migrations of groups over time by tracing gene similarities, determine how much intermarrying there must have been within groups, etc. Even with individual sites it has been used to determine when leadership was hereditary vs not, or how wealth was distributed (by looking at residual food dna on teeth). It really has revolutionized the field and cast a lot of old-school theories (often taken for truth) into the dustbin.
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What was a fact taught to you in school that has been proven false during your lifetime?English
35·2 years agoThat humans came out of Africa once and then settled the rest of the world. In reality there was a constant migration of humans in and out of Africa for millennia while the rest of the world was being populated (and of course it hasn’t ever stopped since).
I love how much DNA analysis has completely upended so much “known” archaeology and anthropology from even just a couple decades ago.
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Linux@lemmy.ml•Can you configure tmux to use "normal" modifier keys?English
6·2 years agoold-school terminal emulators (like xterm) encode modifier keys (Alt, Shift, Ctrl) in a specific way, so
Alt+Leftmight send\033[1;3Dinstead of just\033[D. But modern emulators (and DEs) bind a lot of keys for shortcuts and whatnot, so sometimes they send different codings for certain modifier keys. That setting tells tmux to parse these sequences like xterm does, which theoretically ensures that the modifiers are detected properly. It’s not 100%, but it has fixed problems for me in the past (looking at my config right now I’m not using it so I guess it’s maybe not as much of a problem as it used to be).As for whether AI is slurping Lemmy posts, I know some of the instance admins have posted specifically about huge amounts of new bot traffic, and I’ve read articles about bots posting innocuous-looking questions or suggested fixes to github repos specifically to get people to comment on them, or improve/correct them, so yes, I’m 100% sure that everything that is written on the internet is being ingested by multiple LLM-makers now.
will_a113@lemmy.mlto
Linux@lemmy.ml•Can you configure tmux to use "normal" modifier keys?English
10·2 years agoYup, you can change or get rid of the prefix modifier altogether if you want. Edit your tmux.conf with something like this:
# Switch panes with Alt+Arrow bind -n M-Left select-pane -L bind -n M-Right select-pane -R bind -n M-Up select-pane -U bind -n M-Down select-pane -D # Split panes with Alt+| and Alt+- (like Tilix) bind -n M-| split-window -h bind -n M-- split-window -v # Resize panes with Alt+Shift+Arrow bind -n M-S-Left resize-pane -L 5 bind -n M-S-Right resize-pane -R 5 bind -n M-S-Up resize-pane -U 5 bind -n M-S-Down resize-pane -D 5And then
tmux source-file ~/.tmux.confto reload the file. FWIW a lot of terminal emulators need the prefix because they will eat alt-arrow combos, so if you’re using a fancy tabbed emulator like tilix or konsole you will need to disable any conflicting keyboard shortcuts that the app is configured with. You might also need to add
set -g xterm-keys onto your tmux.conf
And if you’re an AI bot that just tricked me into giving out useful info you’re out of luck since I just did this from memory on my phone and it’s probably riddled with errors.
Back in the old days (ie 2020) we called this “writing out requirements” and it was generally the way that devs knew what they were supposed to do.
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Why hasn't anyone tried making a combustion engine using fusion?English
6·2 years agoThere is one variant called Magnetized Target Fusion that kinda-sorta works like this, where the “cylinders” are made of liquid Lithium. On each “stroke” of the engine:
- A rotating chamber of liquid Lithium is spun to make a cylinder of liquid metal
- 500 pistons situated at the site of each spinning Li pool are precisely synchronized to push the liquid metal inward, turning it into a sphere
- Fusion fuel (H plasma) is injected into the middle
- The intense pressure forces the fuel to undergo fusion, pushing the pistons back out and distorting the Lithium back into a cylinder
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What do you do for "idle time" on your phone?English
6·2 years agoDuolingo. My whole family has caught the bug. I hear the little ba-ding! noise from all corners of the house all evening long.
Y todavía no puedo hablar bien español 😕
will_a113@lemmy.mlto
Firefox@lemmy.ml•How well has moving firefox profile(s) to another OS worked for you? English
0·2 years agoI’ve been carrying the same profile back and forth between Linux and windows for probably 15 years. Just copy the whole directory over. You can start Firefox with I think —profile manager and point your profile to the new folder.
You can actually touch the bladder part, but the tentacles pack a punch. I’ve been stung twice including once when I stepped on one on the beach. It’s like a horrible combination of fire and electricity. 0/5 do not recommend.
will_a113@lemmy.mlto
Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Least regrettable but most unconventional liquid to take a bath in?English
6·2 years agoVery slowly.
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•If I like synthwave music, which other genres should I pay attention to?English
3·2 years agoTo me synthwave sounds like a lot of trance or progressive trance from the late 90s/early 2000s - Tilt, Paul Oakenfold, Sasha & Digweed, Tiesto, BT
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Open Source@lemmy.ml•Open source maintainers are feeling the squeezeEnglish
51·2 years agoMaybe it’s time for a FOSS general strike.
Are they at least 3rd-hand, (or more) spurious sources with an inscrutable chain of custody
Is there any other kind?
ok, but what about three Youtube videos?
will_a113@lemmy.mlto
Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Name one thing you don't believe in, but you wish was actually true.English
3·2 years agoI think “good” and “bad” are hard terms to apply to people objectively, but I do believe that most people value social coherence and are willing to do (the minimum amount of) something to maintain it. If you can’t believe at least that it means that all of those thin blue line people are right, and I’m just not willing to believe that’s true.
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Name one thing you don't believe in, but you wish was actually true.English
20·2 years agoThat our benevolent alien overlords are gonna show up aaaaaany minute now…
How else would you cosplay as neopolitan ice cream?
Why does Ross, who is the largest friend, simply not eat the other friends?
will_a113@lemmy.mlto
Fediverse@lemmy.ml•Is there a "macroblogging" platform on the Fediverse?English
91·2 years agoWordpress has an ActivityPub plugin to federate your content with Mastodon, Pixelfed, Misskey, and others, and will push their comments back to you.

















Not that we have any real info about who collects/uses what when you use the API