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Conjecture should be backed up with evidence or at least a good hypothetical (possibly several) at the very least.

The USDA has an awesome API called Food Data Central. The data is public domain in terms of licensing and the rate limit is about 1000 calls per hour per IP address (which is extre…

Does RustPython support the GIL? It would be ironic for a language with a crab as a mascot to not depend on having gills or at least one.

Also if evolution has shown us anything we will all one day evolve into crab. Crab is the final form (Carcinisation).

We still have banks running code even older than that. Do you want banks to take a large risk and potentially impact millions of people because "old code is bad code"? There is a t…

It's not just the people designing the hardware but also those maintaining it. I work in an "Infrastructure Engineer" position (I hate that since it also correlates with constructi…

He gets my respect for that one both publicly acknowledging why he was leaving and their pantomime. I don't know how much the equity would be for each employee (the article suggest…

Part of it too is not just age but also careful engineering to breed out bitter compounds. Case example: brusselsprouts "About 30 years ago, a Dutch scientist identified the chemic…

It's been co-opted into the phrase "AI" in the same vein that "cloud" was used in "Cloud Computing". It's a marketing term to make the technology more appealing. That's why half th…

From the link: "A lot of Cloudflare's technology is well documented. For example, how we handle traffic between the eyeballs (clients) and our servers has been discussed" Already 1…

I feel like STP is basically magic when you first learn it in a course (usually sponsored by Cisco) but the illusion is broken when you learn computer science principles like a gra…

No wonder Patrick from Spongebob is always so enlightening.

"This asteroid is worth $10,000,000,000,000,000,000. ... PSYCHE!" - NASA spokesperson

Non-dairy milks are about the same price as dairy milk where I live. Tofu is pretty cheap (about $2.64 - $3 where I live). It is also very versatile. Beans are very cheap whether d…

"Marine Cryptophytes are Great Sources of DHA and EPA" - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5793051/ "Like humans, fish obtain EPA and DHA from their diet, basically from…