This might sound overly fatalistic but... everyone is playing low-chance Russian roulette all the time. I know multiple people who've died of random health issues far sooner than they should have, tomorrow isn't promised for anybody. May as well do one of the most fun activities ever invented by humans in the meantime
The whole European grid is essentially connected at this point, it's a simple trade of resiliency for efficiency. People just forget about the resiliency part until something goes wrong
GreenSock works and it's fine but I'm always deeply suspicious of any product that tries that hard to promote itself. If the approach is so great, let it speak for itself
Yeah I see this take all the time and it's dangerous, it might have an element of truth but it's definitely dangerously simplistic. You can find advocates of low fat high carb diets also claiming that very low fat intakes improve cancer survivability.
You're absolutely right it's dangerous. It's likely that I gave myself cancer by adopting this 'simplistic truth'.
A decade ago I read about the keto diet and thought "why not?". Lots of positive stories about dropping weight fast, getting mental clarity and starving cancer.
A few years later, I was diagnosed with a rare Leukaemia (with a distinctive BRAF mutation).
I was too young to have a cancer so I thought... maybe this keto thing is not so good after all?
Cue to several Pubmed rabbit holes, where I find studies suggesting that one of the ketones (acetoacetate) promotes tumor growth in BRAF-related cancers (melanoma, colorectal, hairy cell leukemia, and others).
Well, that was the moment I stopped doing stupid 'hacks' with my body and strictly adhere to the 'common sense diet' - ie eating like my grandpa did.
While I can't confirm 100% that my cancer was triggered by the keto diet, I have a strong suspicion it did.
So yeah, before going online and stating grandiose things like "cancer starve on ketones, they need glucose" let's all acknowledge that we humans know very little about what's going on with cancer, and the potential adaptations it can do.
It also doesn't pass the smell test for me because some of the most long-lived, relatively cancer-resistent populations like the Japanese eat carb based diets. That's hard to explain if it really is just a case of replacing glucose in the fuel mixture with fat and ketones.
+1 for the 'grandpa diet', I also feel best eating normally
People keep talking about using LLMs for writing code, and they might be useful for that, but I've found them much more useful for explaining human-written code than anything else, especially in languages/frameworks outside my core competency.
E.g. "why does this (random code in a framework I haven't used much) code cause this error?"
About 50% of the time I get a helpful response straight away that saves me trawling through Stack Overflow and random blog posts. About 25% of the time the response is at least partially wrong, but it still helps me get on the right track.
25% of the time the LLM has no idea and won't admit it so I end up wasting a small amount of time going round in circles, but overall it's a significant productivity boost when I'm working on unfamiliar code.
There are counterexamples in Asia though like South Korea, Taiwan etc. that have massively outperformed Europe over recent decades despite not having those advantages.
Having said that, not sure the SK model is something to emulate given the social problems it seems to have caused
That’s an important point, people always compare growth as if growing from the bottom is as hard as growing from (close to) the top. People love to do this with India and china.
That's true - the counter-counterexample is Singapore where GDP/capita shot straight past western European countries and just kept going. They do have the significant advantage of being English speaking though
Singapore also has the advantage of being a significant financial hub. But that only works when being small, it doesn’t scale to something like the EU.
Because EPO is a natural hormone, in theory you can get away with using moderate amounts without needing to bypass the tests. Take bioidentical EPO before bed (possibly IV instead of IM for shorter detection time) and by the time you wake up it's hard to distinguish from natural variation.
This is what the "biological passport" is designed to prevent but I'm not sure if it actually works
Yep, it's going to take time but eventually one day the vast majority of JS code in the wild will be strict mode and the non-strict stuff will be de facto deprecated and not expected to work everywhere
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