jniedrauer

I may be in the minority here, but I personally prefer the "wrong answer" highlighted at the beginning of this article. Scripts are source code. They go in the repo, and they have the same standards applied to them as any other source code. I would much prefer that the code be explicit and rely on few if any third party libraries. I have go scripts that have been functioning in production for half a decade now without modification. They are as "self documenting" as any other go code, and I do not require esoteric knowledge about a third party library to re-familiarize myself with them.

One of the cruel aspects of endurance sports is that they suppress your appetite. You can go out and burn 6000 calories in one race, spend the whole time thinking about all the delicious food you're going to reward yourself with, and then you get there and have zero desire to eat. You sometimes can't even start refeeding until the next day.

Worse still is having to merge in/out of traffic to avoid parked vehicles. In the state of Oregon, you are legally entitled to the same rights as any other vehicle on the road, but that also means you are legally obligated to move over when possible so faster vehicles can pass. In practice, this means swerving into the lane of car traffic to get around cars parked on the curb, and then moving back into the "bike lane", repeatedly. It's frightening, even if drivers here tend to be very considerate to pedestrians.

Rural areas in the PNW are about a 2 on the Bortle scale, and the stars are strikingly vivid. The first time I saw Starlink with my own eyes, I was making an alpine start on Mt St Helens. The cluster of satellites against a backdrop of bright stars was breathtaking, and I got this powerful sense that we were truly conquering the heavens. You could call this another form of light pollution, but it made a pretty big impression on me. It felt more like science fiction than reality.

Are you concerned that you are introducing tech debt into the codebase? Anyone who refactors your code later will also have to refactor your comments (but likely won't).

I used to have fairly poor sleep hygiene but am now pretty good about it. I have had this experience in both states. I had night terrors as a child which eventually gave way to curiosity, and I practiced staying self aware while falling asleep. A common trick you can use is to learn to recognize the signs that you are sleeping, for example by checking your phone. Digital screens will have garbled symbols in a dream. You also might notice altered laws of physics, or suddenly remember that you already went to bed and the dream can't be real. After the first few times, your brain learns how to do it and it happens more and more without effort. Then you can stay self aware while falling asleep, and can start to explore the transition states that you otherwise couldn't see.

>do you also have high rates of sleep paralysis?

Yes, often toward the end of this near-dreaming state, just before entering deeper sleep. I experience a sensation like entering a free fall and lose the ability to move. It takes quite a lot of energy to climb back out of it and regain the ability to move.

When I see studies like this, I always wonder if you might get the exact same benefits and more by just going for a run. When I run for more than 90 minutes without taking in carbs, my body goes into a ketogenic state very similar to a multi-day fast. And exercise has additional benefits that simply fasting doesn't.

Where's the gnome file picker missing a thumbnail view since April 2004?

It's worth noting that this is not the norm in the US either. A wait of 1+ months to see a specialist is very normal here.

I listen to a workout playlist on shuffle frequently while training, while slowly adding new music to it throughout the year.

Like others have mentioned, Spotify has completely stopped recommending new music for years now. Even if I start a song radio from a song I've never listened to before, Spotify immediately just starts playing songs from my current year's workout playlist. That is not the behavior I want. Yes, I listen to that playlist a lot, but when I'm not listening to that playlist, I'm trying to find new music. It seems really obvious that that would be the expected behavior, to me at least.