Why not both! Delicious caffeinated in the morning, less-delicious-but-still-quite-nice decaf after 12:00. You don’t need to go entirely caffeine-free to enjoy most of the benefits.
The Purrrr app (which shows feeders like this) is really quite an experience. It’s just as hyperactive as a Temu or AliExpress, with as much dopamine hacking as a TikTok, but… for good? I think?
We have a TonieBox that has been much loved by one kid, and now another. And even though everything in my being is telling me to hack it to make it do cool things (mostly because of all the “you just own a _license_ to content” stuff rubs me the wrong way), I wouldn’t dare. It’s a product so simply designed, a 1-year-old can use it. It’s not for me to mess with. This particular thing does not need hacking.
My brittle smart home setup is hanging on by a thread in the spousal approval department. I can’t handle the fury that will befall me if I fuck with the TonieBox.
I also use a notebook and pen constantly as a software engineer - but never when I need any of the properties you just mentioned.
It is absolutely the wrong tool for any long-term information store. Ephemeral think-it-through process notes only. Obsidian for anything that should live longer than the current problem I’m trying to solve.
I used to have a hybrid setup of paper as an offloading tool + Notion as a knowledge management system. However, since moving to Obsidian, I've never felt the need to use paper. Adding a line item in my daily note is much faster and efficient for me
Sure, "toxic" is word that means bad things. But I don't think you read the article.
It only talks about the levels in the soil. It says nothing about what impact this has on the food we eat from that soil (in fact it explicitly states that the level in food was not measured).
It also doesn't quite agree with your use of the word "we". The article does not conclude whether the elevated levels of metals were down to natural processes or humans (e.g. it suggests that weathering could be at least a contributing factor).
I get what you're saying, if someone says something is "toxic", it means something somewhere is at a level which is dangerous in some context. But the original comment on what the article itself is saying is not wrong. There is no information on real-world implications.
I did read the article. It’s always the same response: “Can you show this is bad?”, where this is microplastics, metals in the soil, forever chemicals, etc. At some point we will we get to the stage where the standard response is, “Yes it’s bad but there’s nothing we can do about it.”
"It also doesn't quite agree with your use of the word "we". The article does not conclude whether the elevated levels of metals were down to natural processes or humans…"
That point is key from the perspective that natural levels of dangerous metals act as a reference for comparison.
That said, science tells us that some elements are both toxic and carcinogenic and that humans have contributed to their increased levels in the environment is not in any doubt.
The dangers heavy metals from anthropogenic sources pose to human health depends on many factors, location, concentration, dispersabity, etc.
The point the article makes about "chromium (in its highly toxic hexavalent form, often released by leather tanning and pigment industries)…" is particularly poignant for me. I recall seeing a documentary on WWI military archeology—a new factory was being built in Belgium over a WWI battlefield. When builders discovered soldiers' graves during construction work had to stop until all archeological evidence had been collected and documented.
The grave of one soldier was particularly revealing, except for his skeleton, his boots and a small purse containg a few coins nothing much else remained. What's particularly interesting and relevant to this discussion is that his leather boots were in almost perfect condition, so too was his tiny leather purse.
That these articles were still so intact after nearly 100 years buried under earth was directly because of the high levels chromium used in the tanning of the leather. The chromium was so toxic that after all that time microorganisms were still unable to attack the leather without being killed. (I found this distressing to watch because of the almost pristine condition of those leather items, especially so the purse with its tiny cache of small coins, they vividly brought home the tragedy that had befallen this poor unfortunate soldier.)
Moreover, it also brought home the fact that one didn't have to know an iota of chemistry to know hexavalent chromium is highly toxic. It was so damn obvious.
That said, it's clear from the nature and location of the chromium that it's been largely contained at its source, if it had been dispersed widely then the concentration would have fallen by a significant amount, by now the residual level would such that microorganisms would have been able to attack the leather.
We have to use forensic evidence such as this on a wide scale to ascertain the actual danger these heavy metals pose to human health.
It has to, how would it deliver the password to the URL’s recipient otherwise?
I suppose to keep it fully stateless you could encode the password in the URL itself somehow, but then that would defeat the purpose of not having the secret hang around in perpetuity.
When my career was just beginning (maybe choosing to freelance on day 1 was the mistake), if a client was even a couple of grand behind on invoices then I would have been toast financially.
Early in your career, with no savings, working for free is just not an option.
I get that, that's why you spend your time trying to find work, until you do have that nest egg. I spent my early 20's with multiple jobs (e.g., working as an LTE (Limited Term Employee) at the local University 30 hours a week and then working nights at a club 2.5 hours away Friday-Sunday - getting a couple hours of sleep Sunday night, driving back and going straight to my day job. I don't think I could do that now, but my LTE jobs were never that complicated (or high paying).
"Apps" is just our current Zeitgeist term for products. Facebook, Reddit, newspaper... are now "apps". You don't have to like it (I don't either), but just like the term "meme" has evolved from an "animal/person with bold text on it" to mean any joke or popular concept, "app" has transcended the phone realm.
> the term "meme" has evolved from an "animal/person with bold text on it" to mean any joke or popular concept
It's actually the other way around, "meme" existed in the general sense for many years before internet-image-macro-memes became a thing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme#Dawkins
When I hear Paper Apps, I'm expecting something with a decent bit of complexity. Likely some number crunching, maybe needing an external source of RNG, using multiple pages. It says to me that this is something significantly more than what I would find in a puzzle book. If I open it up and it is a standard puzzle book, I would be disappointed.
It does on the surface just seem like it's selling those sudoku and crossword puzzles you see at the grocery store checkout to people who aren't grandparents. But also, that's like comparing the modern board game scene to Monopoly and Candyland.
