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This is absolutely not true. In the 1950's food was packaged in glass or paper. Polymer science was in its infancy.

And? What's your point? Many of us are worried about this, there's no guidance from our overlords, and there are some very obvious differences between diets today and diets $REFDELTA years ago. Speculation about microplastic, chemicals, lack of fiber, etc... is perfectly reasonable.

Microplastics and weird chemicals like phthalates?

I've been on a health kick lately and on paper tinned sardines seem excellent. Tons of protein, calcium, omega 3, etc... You can get them packed in water or mustard or tomato sauce or olive oil if you are worried about seed oils (which I am, and lots are packed in sunflower oil). Low mercury.

Too bad that 100 grams of sardines can contain up to 30 milligrams of microplastics! Turns out that the ocean is full of plastic, which plankton eat since microplastics are just the right size for them, then the sardines eat the plankton. And then if you eat sardines... Of course most people aren't getting cancer from eating sardines, but microplastics are absolutely ubiquitous. Sardines are just a great example of a huge concentration of microplastics where you might not expect it. (Oh and don't forget the BPA in the tin's plastic lining! Oh it's BPA free? I guess they used BPC as a plasticizer... there are very few studies about BPC so I guess it must be safe!)

There was a study recently that showed fast foods contained huge amounts of phthalates - the researchers linked it to the plastic gloves that the food workers wear. Which is disgusting - why are we afraid of human skin touching our food? Do you honestly think people replace gloves more readily than they wash their hands?

CRA is no longer recommended. Official recs are Next, Remix, and Gatsby.

https://react.dev/learn/start-a-new-react-project

I care about shipping products to customers for feedback, and then iterating as quickly as possible once I get it, so that I can earn as much money as possible.

Have fun with your performance and resource use, though. Sounds really interesting.

I fully support the ICC warrant for Putin.

Where's the warrant for Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, etc...?

Yeah good point... definitely something I would have checked, forgot to put it in the list. I'm baffled people have trouble coming up with more than "number of stars" for this.

Of course there can be libraries that are more or less "finished", so the last commit/frequency of commits isn't on its own a deciding factor, but in proper context/holistically it is definitely an important metric!

What's wrong with hallucinogenic LSD?

That's a very interesting question. There are so many things you can look at. How is the documentation? Who are the primary maintainers? How are they funded? What are their motivations? Are the primary maintainers active on Stack Overflow, Reddit, Discord, etc...? How many contributors are there? How does their Github issues page look? What about the Github discussion page? How many maintainers are there total? How many downloads per week on NPM (for JS libraries)? From all of these things - how long do you expect this library to be maintained? And that's just the initial qualification research, nothing about how it will impact the actual code-base.

What did I miss? What's the best answer you've ever heard? How do you evaluate 3rd party dependencies?

Enormous nitpick that I apologize preemptively for: Ireland is not in the UK. Northern Ireland is, but the author is from Dublin, Ireland.

There is a very good Copilot plugin for nvim written by the legendary tpope himself. It is easy to toggle on and off. I use it alongside coc-nvim every day.

https://github.com/github/copilot.vim

I was very aware of the new rules on sulfur as I had been working as a consultant for the very same engineering firms that actually run the sulfur capture units.

I'm also very interested in climate change.

I can't believe I didn't put the two together. Wow. You've made a very interesting connection.

When Covid started I had to start teaching courses I normally taught in person online. I invested in a Shure SM58 and a USB interface (Focusrite Scarlet Solo) and needed to add a Fethead for that setup to work as well.

Absolutely great setup for around 200 bucks - if the way you make money depends at all on to getting people to listen to what you have to say (which should mean pretty much everyone reading this) then this is an absolutely no-brainer investment.

No time constraint? Check out both of these resources, choose the one that gives you a better first impression, and do it. By the time you're done, you'll know how to get started on your friend's site.

https://fullstackopen.com/en/ https://www.theodinproject.com/

For me, selling means traveling, but virtual discovery calls are also the norm - traveling is expensive (both money and time) and I'm not traveling to meet a prospect until I've qualified them. And sure, if you're in financial services, you probably ought to live in NYC... maybe you wouldn't ever even need to leave. But I'd wager that in most other industries which are a bit more distributed geographically, as long as you're willing to hop on a plane at a moments notice, you'll be okay.

Lard is very much food, it has been a staple of many cultures diets for a long, long time. People here in Central Europe spread it on top of sourdough bread and top with sliced leeks.

I'm with you on refined sugar, though, which is what I think you probably meant by raw sugar.

There are already some very good replies in this thread. This is also an absolutely fantastic question.

The book New Sales: Simplified by Mike Weinberg is a decent intro to sales that you would probably get a lot out of. You can only learn sales by doing but this book will help you get your feet wet - there are a lot of absolutely awful sales books out there but this one is good. 45 calls in 3 months is very easily achievable, by the way, even just doing cold calls from LinkedIn.

I'd like to add one thing. It's not a direct response to the questions you asked but I hope it can help you once you figure out how to start making calls. I used to sell engineering software to heavy industry customers. I found out very quickly that if you called a customer on the phone (or were on Google Meet or whatever) and asked "anything wrong? anything I can help with?" they would tell you "oh no, everything's great here!". Go visit them in person though, and ask for a tour of their plant, and all of the sudden they're pointing to all sorts of things saying "oh yeah, that new 10 million dollar unit they just put in won't start, we can't figure out why!" and guess what, the software we sold could help them figure out how to start it. I work remote now and I love it, but for sales? Nothing beats meeting in person.

Ammonia (another dead simple molecule/process) is used in these services quite often, as far as I know.

I just started a career in web development and do 95% of my work in React and I love it. I'm able to ship features for customers to use insanely quickly. When it falls out of favor and I need to learn Svelte (or whatever) my plan is to just... do that? It took me a week to start being productive in React.

It isn't like this isn't a problem outside of web development, either. Imagine getting hired to maintain some legacy engineering software with a GUI built in Delphi and a backend written in Fortran...

The phone is an awful means of communication. You can't see the other person's face. That's not how humans are meant to communicate, and I'll never understand why older generations (I'm 35) treat it like a sacred communication device given that in the grand scheme of things it is really a very new technology. And what kind of fucked up device allows literally anyone to interrupt me at any time they want? What if I'm in a flow state? I don't want to talk to you now, I'm getting shit done! Send me a damn message on Slack and I'll respond async when I'm not doing deep work!

They won't be honeybees, they'll be other types of bees like mason bees. But yes, they will come to you.

I think you're right about the natives and the 'right kind' of activity.

Native species, especially the ones at risk, are more likely to be specialists. And of course, they specialize in the native plants.

Invasive species, on the other hand, are more likely to be generalists. That's why they become invasive in the first place. And they'll be happy to visit those non-native plants.

Maybe in English, but you have no idea how deep the rabbit hole goes. My Eastern European in-laws are hooked on Russian propaganda/disinfo and its all delivered to them in their language or Russian and its not coming from RT.

Having said that, I always chuckle at Americans who are so suspicious of RT given that they platform people like Cornell West and Chris Hedges who are absolutely blacklisted in western media.

I have no idea what the point of this comment is, other than everything sucks. :sigh:

Capturing CO2 from flue gas requires a lot of energy (for something like a coal fired power plant, it takes about 30% of the power plant's energy output to capture the CO2) and you still have to deal with the CO2 after you've captured it - what do you do with it?

The only way to sequester it is to inject into underground reservoirs, but that requires a very specific geology which very few places have.

You can liquefy it and sell it... but then it's typically going to get released to the atmosphere by the purchaser, not sequestered.

I am not an expert in waste incineration (although I am an expert in carbon capture processes) but I seriously doubt that they use CO2 scrubbers. Scrubbers for other nasty molecules like SO2, sure, but the CO2 is probably just sent out into the atmosphere.

However, incinerating waste produces heat/energy which would otherwise have been obtained from burning fossil fuels.

At the end of the day it is a complicated problem and the only real solution - consume less shit - is basically untenable, so :shrugs:

My city has a waste to energy plant. Anything I put in the waste bin gets burned, and the energy is used to generate power or heat for the city.

I have a hell of a time convincing my wife that we ought to just chuck all plastics into the waste rather than stick them in the recycling bin, since only God knows where the plastics in the recycling bin end up. Maybe they get recycled, maybe they get dumped onto a smoldering trash mountain in Turkey or maybe they end up floating down the Yangtze. Even if they do get recycled into a fleece sweater or whatever, given what we know about microplastic shedding, do we really want that? Just burn the shit and recover the energy, I say.

Very cool! What about adding binaural beats for focus?

Huberman on binaural beats for focus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iboQ7mmGGGU&vl=en

The article's title is 'and no-one noticed' but then in the article they casually drop that someone did indeed recognize him and leave him 20 bucks...

Honest questions from a totally ignorant cynic:

Who is funding who here? Is Dr. Lark being funded by the fossil fuel industry? Are the 11 other scientists being funded by 'big corn' or the USDA itself? Does the USDA/'big corn' have a revolving door situation where the USDA scientists have come from and maintain ties to industry?

Well, they can certainly converse intelligibly. Intelligently is up for debate.