zerofor_conduct

Spolsky and co. sold SO in 2021 - timing IS everything.

A recent investigation by Consumer Reports found that plant-based protein powders, particularly those made with pea protein, contain significantly higher levels of lead compared to animal-based alternatives, with over two-thirds of tested products exceeding safe daily lead intake levels.

And here are some of the reasons why:

1. high risk of severe allergic reactions and cross-reactivity

2. contamination with pathogens, toxins, and heavy metals

3. digestive and nutritional drawbacks, including anti-nutrients (no pun intended) and imbalances

4. and last but not least, the good old precautionary principle: limited research on long-term human health impacts and emerging hazards

if you still want to eat zee bugz, consider yourself warned !

https://archive.ph/WQ9sq

Ynsect-crushing reality - nobody really wants to eat bugs

Freud was not a scientist, he was a great artist. It is not clear whether any of his patients got better after Freud's treatment.

Fascinating and well told - many thanks!

Lamarck has entered the chat

completely agree, it's a miserable environment for software developers. The Xilinx environment was a 1 GB download, EACH TIME they issued an update. I actually met with someone from higher up to give them some feedback, but they were clearly not interested in the slightest in making any changes.

From a French novel: Elle n'avait qu'un seul défaut : elle était insupportable.

Anyone can develop a Zen attitude by committing to Zen meditation, or other forms of meditation. It may sound trite, but depression can come from managing the past, anxiety from managing the future. But the past is gone, the future is just a fantasy, what is real is what is happening now. The more time spent in the present, the less anxiety and depression. This is one of the benefits of meditation.

yes, felt like one long humble brag after that. how tiresome.

I think the focus should be on more and better APIs, not MCP servers.

100% Rust kernel - I felt that

https://archive.ph/0MFPK

here is a (somewhat biased) comparison between OnlyOffice and Collabora Online

https://www.collaboraonline.com/comparing-collabora-with-onl...

program like a fighter pilot? that makes no sense.

“The real hell of life is everyone has his reasons.” ― Jean Renoir

I feel that training copilot on Github repos without maintainer consent was a betrayal - this pushed many projects over to Gitlab.

"The unknown thing to be known appeared to me as some stretch of earth or hard marl, resisting penetration... the sea advances insensibly in silence, nothing seems to happen, nothing moves, the water is so far off you hardly hear it... yet finally it surrounds the resistant substance."

A. Grothendieck

Understanding mathematical ideas often requires simply getting used to them