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For me, it's ublock origin, libredirect, and Dark Background Light Text

For over a year, I've been working on a project called "bestof", which is a product recommendation site detailing the "best" things in each and every category. I've recently included prices as well thanks to a suggestion from a comment. I'm also planning a high-contrast mode, because right now it's all just green.

I would like some feedback, specifically on the bike section. Are my picks terrible (most probably are), and if so, what else do you suggest? Do you have any feedback on the site as a whole?

Thanks for your help!

https://swarbler.github.io/bestof/vehicles/bike/

What’s the longest chemical formula that spells out a word, but is also an actual chemical formula?

I’m able to come up with “HI”, or hydrogen iodide (which is a real compound). “He” also works, which is just helium.

I’ve tried to use AI to find one, but it was only able to produce CuTe, copper (II) telluride, BiTe, bismuth telluride, and LaTe, lanthanum telluride.

What’s the longest chemical formula that is both valid and spells out a word or phrase?

edit: spelled spell wrong...

sorry about spamming your feeds with 17 cross-posts. that was not right and I won't do it again, I promise!

I would just like your feedback and opinion, good or bad, on the PC components I have on a project I've made called "bestof". I've worked on it for quite some time, and after some recent changes to improve the PC builds section I think it is ready to be shown off.

a few notes:

• only recommending CPUs that aren't on dead platforms for upgradeability reasons. however, if you are on a budget, I have mentioned the 5600, 12100F, 12400F, and the 5700X3D as solid options
• PC cases are almost 100% subject to personal preference, I just suggested a few popular options as well as some good cheap ones
• I did not recommend the RTX 4090 as most people don't need it unless they have money to burn. Both AMD and Nvidia GPUs have been mentioned

If you have any questions or think any of my picks are wrong (which many of them probably are) then please lmk!

https://swarbler.github.io/bestof/tech/pc-builds/pc-builds

(https://just-the-docs.com/docs/customization/#define-a-custom-scheme for reference)

I am using just the docs (jekyll theme) + github pages to create a webpage and trying to have two separate colour schemes: a normal and high contrast option.

I am using a custom style with "_sass/custom/custom.scss" to set all the colours, layout configurations, etc. because there are some options that are not available using "_sass/color_schemes/foo.scss" such as more control over the colours of different elements.

However, I cannot find in the docs how to make it possible to easily switch with a custom.scss. One option is to create two github pages sites, one with high contrast and the other with normal colours, but that's really janky. just-the-docs seems to only allow you to create switchable colour schemes if you use "color_schemes/foo.scss" rather than "custom/custom.scss".

Am I forced to create a second github pages site for high contrast, or is there a way to switch between two different custom.scss?

Barrel jacks were awesome, they could go in any orientation. The only downside was the many different forms of barrel jack and lack of a standard. My question is: why isn't there a cylindrical USB port? You would be able to rotate it any way you want within 360 degrees!

As a matter of fact, why isn't there a cylindrical power plug? You'd get the benefits of a recessed plug like Type-C (EU) and Type-F (Schuko), you'd get the benefits of reversible plugs like Type-A (North American) and more so as you get 360-degree rotation, and it would be MUCH harder to break/bend compared to two flimsy pins (the UK plug has three thicker pins, but a chunky cylinder would be much more difficult to bend than the pins)

If it was a hollow cylinder (a bit like a vacuum-insulated water bottle), you could feasibly fit some small electronics in it, so things like flush low-power USB chargers and smart home sensors could be made.

The contacts would likely need to be outside the cylinder, similar to the "neutral" pins on Schuko plugs. There would likely need to be some plastic tabs to keep the power bits from touching the non-power bits, and then the socket itself would be able to freely rotate.

Actually, why don't regular sockets freely rotate? Then it would solve all the issues of non-reversible plugs not able to go upside down and reversible plugs not able to go sideways.

Speaking of cylindrical objects, what happened to camcorders? They sound like the most comfortable and easiest way to record videos, with straps and everything. They were compact, portable, and wasn't heavy as all heck.

this is my rant about cylinders, thank you for your time.

sorry about crossposting the same thing 17 times, that was my bad. That was definitely spam and I won't do that again! Apologies for possibly making a mess out of anyone's feeds.

Not a very good introduction to myself, so let's start again (without the spam).

Hi, I'm sbird, and I like to make fun projects in my free time. I enjoy programming, 3D printing, and photography. My favourite food is rice. The best Harry Potter book is Prisoner of Azkaban, and I joined the fediverse a few months ago and Lemmy very recently.

My thoughts on the fediverse so far have been positive. Pixelfed has been very nice, and Mastodon has been pretty good too. I love that there's so many different third-party client apps for all three of them!

anyways, I have exams to study for, cheers!

note: i did NOT create the ASCII art. I'm not good enough to do that. I found on various ascii art archives as well as those image to ascii art converters for the continents I couldn't find.

countryguess was a project I made recently because I wanted to make a quiz that could be customised as you see fit. Also, I had no clue how to make GUIs with Python and ASCII art is cool so I decided to roll with it. It turned out pretty cool!

I made the maps by printing the ASCII art map, and then all the spaces that make up each country would be an array. These arrays would fill up the spaces like morocco[0], morocco[1], etc.

Then, when the country is guessed, the country (or an alternate name/abbrviation, such as uk for the united kingdom or ivory coast for cote d'ivoire) is matched with its index in the list of countries in that continent.

A second list contains all the countries that show up on the map (excluding citystates, islands, etc. that aren't big enough to be shown on the map) and has all the countries as either 0 (false) or 1 (true). Whenever the country is guessed, its respective list item turns into 1.

The map printing function checks each list item for whether it is true or false. If it is true, then the list of spaces for that country would be replaced with a list of equal length and equal number of characters but with hashes "#" instead of spaces " ". This means that, when the county is printed, hashes are printed instead of spaces and the country fills up

I've got africa, europe, north america, and oceania completed. I haven't yet made the map for asia because it's HUGE, and south america I haven't done yet as well. Also, central/eastern europe is VERY out of proportion and will be fixed...eventually. (i.e. long romanian panhandle)

other fun features I added include the ability to enable/disable disputed territories (Western Sahara, Kosovo, and Somaliland bc why not) and the U.N. observer states (the Vatican and Kosovo) as well as score saving to a "scores.txt" that shows the date, time, and name of quiz that you complete along with your score.

once I finished all the continents, I'll work on making a world quiz with ALL the countries. other things like capital quizzes and flag quizzes could be added on later, but that's likely very far into the future.

here are some more screenshots:

europe

oceania

north america

the github link if you want to look at the code or just have a go at the quiz: https://github.com/swarbler/countryguess