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pljung··on Over 80% of sunscreen performed below their labelled efficacy (2020)
You essentially describe the motivation for Stiftung Warentest [0]. They’re massively successful in Germany, and I rely on their tests for many consumer goods I buy. Access isn’t free though, typically costs around 5EUR per test. Coincidentally, they recently tested sunscreen [1].

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stiftung_Warentest

[1] https://www.test.de/Test-Sonnencreme-und-Sonnenspray-fuer-Er...

pljung··on Working Smarter, Not Harder
It made sense to me as part of the broader theme of separating work activities from private ones. And that separation being the smart action.
pljung··on Researchers, please replace SQLite with DuckDB now
sqlite is also part of Python‘s standard library. No need to add dependencies, things just work. If you don’t plan to run heavy analytical workloads in your research, sqlite is probably just fine.
pljung··on Losing Trust in Google
Did he also loose trust in OpenAI back when DALL-E exclusively generated images of white males when you prompted it with "CEO"? And images of women when prompted with "nurse"?[0] Or is this just the old google-bashing?

[0] https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxdawn/the-ai-that-draws-wha...

pljung··on Benefits of the Danish transfat ban for coronary heart disease mortality
I agree that the headline is misleading.
pljung··on Lion's mane mushrooms: Benefits and side effects
Always a red flag if "potential benefits" cover a broad spectrum of unrelated symptoms: depression, cancer prevention, cognitive ability, heart health, diabetes, digestive health, even wound healing. A dodgy article at best.
pljung··on Why is front-end development so unstable? (2018)
I enjoyed reading your article, thanks for writing it. I think your recommendation to new devs to focus on Next.js in 2018 (!) was prescient.

> I no longer think front-end suffers the instability people accuse it of.

Do you mind elaborating why you believe this is the case?