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To be fair, they suffered a bit from scope creep, as mid project it was started a second major effort to remove the gil. So the codebase was undergoing two major surgeries at the same time. Hard to believe they could stick to the original schedule under those conditions. Also gil removal decreases performance from sequential execution. I imagine some gains from Faster CPython were/will be spent compensating this hit on gil-less single thread performance.

> And places being in a state of internal conflict, conflict which is itself often backed and fomented by US intelligence agencies and backed proxy forces

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timber_Sycamore

> Anthropic will betray you for a multi-year government contract worth tens of billions of dollars.

What are the odds they will rebrand Misanthropic by then?

Also Python generators for the lulz. They help one to write extremely memory-efficient programs. Perhaps the memory shortage further helps cement Python in the language popularity charts, vis-à-vis languages that tend to load whole data in memory by default, like R.

> On the other side there was the famous "hospital bombing" news event early in the war where it was claimed that 500 people were killed, and then within a couple of hours it became obvious that the explosion was caused by a misfiring Hamas rocket...

Forensic-architecture published a report on that too: https://forensic-architecture.org/investigation/israeli-disi...

Full report: https://content.forensic-architecture.org/wp-content/uploads...

> Mint Cinnamon is the king for desktop

Mint LMDE great too. Builds upon a Debian base, instead of Ubuntu.

> Try gnumeric, it's a clear cut above everything else.

Gnumeric rocks, even features Montecarlo built-in, I have it installed in my personal machine, but a major limitation is that they stopped providing windows builds, up to the last time I checked, so I can't use it at work.

> alcohol is a blood thinner

Source?

Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20260218154604/https://www.pales...

> A parade of overhead satellites is capturing everything you do all the time.

Kessler syndrome on the way to the rescue.

> I think one reason it's discouraged is that it's not completely clear how long it lasts, and getting it early may result in less protection later in life.

Can't one just take boosters later, like, one every decade?

I tried to take it, but was refused because I'm still under the age of 50. Will try to convince a doctor to prescribe me.

Could be the case caffeine actually gets you addicted to bitter taste, instead of just indicating people with bitter taste preference, Pavlov style? Coffee is bitter, coffee is addictive. Perhaps this addiction to bitterness transfer to other foodstuff (vegetables). Decaffeinated coffee wouldn't allow the same transfer, by lack of the addictive ingredient.

Another possibility: Coffee intake is a proxy measurement for bitter taste tolerance, as many people take theirs without sugar. As healthy vegetables and low sugar foodstuff tend to be bitter, coffee and healthy food may be correlated to some measure.

> Incidently, People who study or do a lot of thinking heavy deep work also tend to be coffee addicts. coincidence?

Coffee can be quite expensive, and thinking work that requires a lot of education tends to correlate with higher income, so I wonder if coffee drinking just acted as another wealth indicator.

Archived version: http://web.archive.org/web/20260210133521/https://www.aljaze...

How did you measure it? Blood panels?

> But my understanding is non-DHA is not helpful so I may not be understanding correctly

Alpha-linolenic acid (ALA), the Omega-3 present in most plant sources, can get its chemical structure lenghtened to EPA and DHA in the organism. The problem appears to be, when people get older, the efficiency of this conversion takes a large hit.

None for Alpha Centauri yet?

> it's widely understood, and scientifically backed up afaik, that strength training is healthy and good for longevity. Yet, if you look at people whose everyday jobs look a lot like functional strength training, eg construction workers, my general impression is that their bodies (age 50+) are in worse condition than the average population...

When it's a work, you're expected to show up and do it consistently every day. So you can't afford alternate days to get adequate rest and recovery time. Your body is gradually wasted away by the job. When it's more of a leisure activity, you can afford just not to do it and rest, when you don't feel well, so the combination of workouts and recovery time can be net-positive, health-wise.

Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20260205075232/https://www.belli...

> Epstein also claimed that Bill Gates wanted to try to give that STI medication to Melinda French Gates in secret.

Now I'm left wondering if he trying to sneak antibiotics to treat his wife without her knowledge was inspired by the way windows sneaks updates and forces a reset on your computer, or if it's the other way around, the way windows forces updates is based on the treatment plan he devised to cure the STI he supposedly gave his wife. A chicken and egg problem.

TL;DR: Epstein emails claim Gates’ contracted an STD and wanted to “surreptitiously” give Melinda antibiotics.

> We uncovered a cause of this aging-associated dysfunction: a cellular survivorship bias that prioritizes stem cell persistence at the expense of functionality.

Past forty, pitiless new equations take hold. Sacrifices must be made...

https://www.badspacecomics.com/post/the-suit

Synthetic, stronger versions are available, as cholestyramine, colestipol or colesevalam, that can be taken as medicines, instead of demanding large changes to diet.

So it appears oat fibers are just quite effective natural bile acid sequestrants[1]. That makes me wonder why don't we use this class of locally-acting compounds as first line cholesterol lowering treatment, instead going straight for the "bazooka" of systemic acting statins that have lots of side-effects, even affecting personality[2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bile_acid_sequestrant

[2] https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200108-the-medications-...

My guess is, mammals with very large body sizes have slower metabolism, so they don't run as hot as smaller creatures, and can have internal testicles without the downsides.

> “Suddenly, I felt like my head was exploding from the inside,” the security guard wrote. “We all started bleeding from the nose. Some were vomiting blood. We fell to the ground, unable to move.”

Eerily reminiscent of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Havana_syndrome

Perhaps that was an early, low power botched test of what later went production in the Caracas abduction op.

I wonder if cellphone footage near the attack site can be analyzed for signs of ultrasounds, or such frequencies are outside the detection range of consumer-grade hardware?