I welcome Python3 just fine. Character data no longer being automatically ASCII might be a bit annoying, but it's fine if that's what it takes to support a more global developer base.
I just wish they would stop iterating on the minor version so quickly. Why are we on python 3.11 (for workgroups, just kidding)? Is there that much of a difference compared to 3.7? 3.7 even has dicts with stable key insertion order and type hinting, so it seems pretty loaded if you ask me.
I don't think we'll see a version 4 for the next decade or so (because of the python3 debacle) - so it'll probably just be various improvements to the standard library.
There's a lot of improvements being made to Python on these minor versions. So while the version bump looks minor, they can make quite a big impact.
3.11 improved performance by 25-60% (depending on use-case).
3.12 is set to improve performance yet again (Special thanks to Mark Shannon, GvR and Microsoft).
On top of that there's a lot of quality-of-life improvements for the various parts of the std.lib.
I like this apporach very much, since upgrading to a new minor Python version is somewhat trivial
> [One key possibility] ... Lower metabolic rate: One of the biggest determinants of body temperature is your metabolic rate. Like a car engine that’s idling, your body expends energy just keeping things going, and that generates heat. A lower metabolic rate in modern times could be due to higher body mass (some studies link this with lower metabolic rate), or better medical treatments, preventive measures, and overall health.
I know it's not exactly "thinking with statistics", but it strikes me as too coincidental that the obesity epidemic has only exploded in recent decades too.
This is what I came to say. When I was a teen my body ran hot, so hot people used to even comment at times it felt like I had heat coming off me. My normal temps were in the low 99.
Now, as an adult, my metabolism nosedived. I barely feel like eating once a day. It's not abnormal to get temps in the 96s, though that could just be the cheap covid thermometers.
I'm in my late 40s, people around me still comment that I'm radiating heat (and have commented that for at least 30 years), and I almost always feel too hot - used to walk with a short sleeve shirt in the dead of snowy winter when I lived in NYC.
But my temperature when measured is consistently below 36 celsius, often 35.
This is a really important aspect here. I am skeptical of efforts to lower the standard human body temp, because it seems to me like normalizing hypothyroidism and other metabolic disorders that, if taken seriously and treated would improve energy levels and quality of life.
They burn more calories overall, but tend to have a lower resting metabolism per body weight, which is specifically what lower metabolism means in this context.
Duo Mobile on iOS lets you save and restore your TOTP tokens across iPhone backups with a symmetric passphrase. It provides some peace of mind in the event you would lose your phone.
I have a similar tale to tell. Ever since I've taken activated charcoal regularly, I have felt considerable improvement in my digestion and overall well-being. I feel happier, even. The charcoal is "sourced from non-GMO coconuts" which I don't necessarily believe but I take it as a sign that it's a higher quality product instead of repackaged industrial waste (like a lot of the market probably is).
I take 1000mg of activated charcoal per day and feel better. It is paradoxical, because all charcoal does is absorb. It makes me think that everything we put into our bodies nowadays is poison. And if all charcoal does is absorb, maybe most foods are a net negative. My interest in fasting has piqued as a result.
I think we are entering an era of rampant industrialization wherein the products (food, soaps, cookware coatings, packaging materials, etc.) are not necessarily the best products on the market, but simply cost effective enough to put on the shelves--meaning if waste can get on the shelf through clever marketing and engineering then it will.
Not directly related to the food products as your refer to them, but a couple of years ago there was the big Cradle-to-Cradle "Waste is Food" hype. Loved by many companies and governments. As a result in The Netherlands this whole paper bureaucracy appeared where through all kinds of tricks you can transform almost any waste back into 'building materials' that are good for the market again. In many cases waste processing became extra profitable. Companies get paid for waste removal at some industry, do the magic transformation tricks, and sell building material at premium price.
So waste = food = money literally without much processing, and effectively just waste = money. A process where waste conveniently disappears on paper only and is spread out over the lands without many people complaining. It is like waste processing of the 60's but way smarter.
Yes, absolutely. I like his candor, and honestly I get fairly demoralized when I have to work alongside underperforming peers. Nobody likes to talk about the form of workplace toxicity that manifests in the form of lazy coworkers who ride off your successes, pigeonholing you into being the team workhorse.
If Elon is getting rid of those people, more power to him.
> There's nothing I do that I think anyone would be especially interested in spying on, other than to try and sell me things.
Do Uyghurs have something to hide and are worth spying on? How many times are we going to hear this argument? It comes only from a position of privilege. You're only uninteresting to be spied on as long as it's allowed by the security apparatus you depend upon. There's a reason we have sayings like "power corrupts"; dismissing the potential for abuse of a cloud-based unencrypted surveillance system is narrow-mindedness at best and subversion at worst.
Note: the above hardly represents me politically, it is just a counterargument against the perennially repeated "I have nothing to hide."
I'm aware of all those arguments and I completely agree with them in principle, but I genuinely would be SO far down the oppression list.
It's definitely a privilege to be the majority ethnicity and sexuality in a modern western liberal democracy, but it is what it is. The chances of the British government suddenly turning against white straight apolitical irreligious men are just so low it's not something I worry about.
What I worry about more are things like people breaking into my house, my dog chewing up the carpet and forgetting where I left my glasses.
I do hope that we can figure out a way to package all the privacy violating cloud-based services in a way that's simple to use, encrypted, local only, etc. though so perhaps more subversive people can enjoy these systems without worrying about oppression.
To be quite honest, the most privacy sensitive things in my life are probably my emails and documents, but those are all already in Google Drive and Gmail anyway, along with basically everyone else's. All anyone will get from my cameras is a stream of me feeding my rabbits, browsing tiktok and scratching my arse. GCHQ are welcome to tune in any day, provided they also help me pick out my clothes in the morning.
I will never pay for YouTube until I'm guaranteed a way to opt out of the recommendation algorithm. It's not so much a recommendation algorithm as much as it is an adversarial search on my behavior to see what cheap content I'll actually engage. Every so often I'll notice a video from a clickbait-ey channel in my sidebar about a topic I care little for, like expensive luxury items or epic pop star moments.
So, I can't trust YouTube to be objective in its recommendations. It's very likely attempting to train me to seek deeper pools within their content graph so that I use YouTube more. Which is fine if it were a free model ("freemium", really), as I would implicitly agree to be mined in exchange for a hosted service with plenty of content. That I would PAY for that, however, is not something I would feel happy about. It would feel like paying for the privilege of receiving a slap in the face.
One interpretation I've been entertaining: In the modern world, we have recently realized that speech is more complicated than people exchanging ideas in a civil manner, and that speech has the power to influence consensus reality through second order and higher effects. (Think: phenomena such as "self-radicalization"). This leads to decisions to simply restrict speech rather than deal with the complexity.
I am not entirely convinced that restricting speech is the right move. I think if anything it creates division. Either way, we'll most likely see how it works out in the next few years.
I just wish they would stop iterating on the minor version so quickly. Why are we on python 3.11 (for workgroups, just kidding)? Is there that much of a difference compared to 3.7? 3.7 even has dicts with stable key insertion order and type hinting, so it seems pretty loaded if you ask me.