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"Practicality beats purity"

Orange juice isn't actually all that healthy. Many "natural" sugars are bound up with fiber, diluting them lowering their glycemic index. Also IIRC there was some research a few ye…

I actually attempted to do this. I used ML techniques to help smooth over some of the difficult parts (there are many difficult parts). The hardest cases are ambiguous names, for i…

I actually wrote an API for handling personal names, because software mangling people's names irked my pedanticism. The fundamental takeaway is that names are ridiculously complex,…

>>> wiki_list = [] >>> wiki_list.append(wiki_list) >>> print(wiki_list) [[...]]

Transposing a matrix in Python is pretty neat. >>>list(zip(*[(1, 2, 3), (4, 5, 6), (7, 8, 9)])) [(1, 4, 7), (2, 5, 8), (3, 6, 9)]

It exists in California too at least.

These exist in the US, but they're called black and white cookies. According to Wikipedia they may have been created in New York by Bavarian immigrants. But it's unclear if the con…

Not quite, I'm referring to american fritessaus, which is more like mayonaise, and distinct from thousand island dressing (which is popular in the US, In-N-Out calls it "spread"). …

https://www.hollandsupermarket.eu/remia-fritessaus-american-... http://www.typicaldutchstuff.com/ahamericanfritessaus-pi-364... https://cf.geekdo-images.com/camo/271763ae14b82c0f61…

Lol reminds me of Hawaiian pizza (pizza topped with pineapples and thinly sliced ham). Hawaiian pizza is actually a Canadian dish, though it's now popular in most of the US, includ…

On the west coast of the US people sometimes jokingly refer to Oregon as "God's Country," because it has lots of churches.

Not exactly the same thing. It's like mayo but thinner and sweeter, and has little green fleks in it.

For those who are curious it's basically mayonnaise, but not quite. There is no direct equivalent in US cuisine to my knowledge.

Kind of curious what the counterpart to this would be. What things are typically ascribed to Americans, that Americans are often unaware of? American Sauce in the Netherlands comes…

You're certainly correct. But in this case it might bolster human specific pathogens. I know there is some overlap between human an animal pathogens, but unfettered access to antib…

What's your stance on antibiotics? Or did you only mean "recreational" drugs? The reason why I bring this up is that antimicrobial resistance is an externality of widespread antibi…

I would honestly be surprised if this kind of link didn't have at least some measurable impact, physiology is hardly decoupled (in the coding sense). It's been well established tha…

I did some interesting work in this space. With several thousand seasons of data I used an MLP network to visualize phenotypic plasticity (how plants react to a range of environmen…

I'm a huge fan of Django, but I always felt that this was true. I wish there was more of a push to decouple parts of the framework. Keep the magic, but allow usage without it.

Dynamic typing vs. static typing is on a different axis than strong vs. weak typing. Python is a strong dynamically typed language, with some "static lite" features introduced in P…

It is an interesting approach, though I feel like this could introduce some nasty unintended consequences given how dynamic and introspective Python can be (admittedly I haven't st…

>In web development, losing a connection is a failure case. That's changing with the advent of progressive web apps. It's possible to write web apps now that are robust in the face…

>Well you can add that to my list of horrifying potential outcomes of being human. Pretty much, fortunately it's very rare. However you shouldn't eat sport caught shellfish without…

Although it's not quite the same thing, this reminds me a bit of amnesic shellfish poisoning. In addition to all the terrible gastric problems ASP has the curious side-effect of se…