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2022-09

2022-09-11

Notes from https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/artificial-sweeteners-health-risks-heart-disease-blood-sugar-rcna46717

  • aspartame - found in the tabletop sweeteners Equal and NutraSweet as well as cereals, yogurt, candy and diet soda.
  • sucralose - found in Splenda as well as baked goods, ice cream, canned fruit, flavored yogurt and syrups
  • acesulfame potassium - often used in “sugar-free” soda
  • agave - has a very high fructose content
  • tabletop sweeteners like Equal, Splenda, Sweet ‘N Low and Truvia
  • aspartame has kind of gotten out of favor, so people aren’t consuming it as much.
  • the body's ability to properly metabolize glucose can be a risk factor for diabetes and cardiovascular health issues
  • artificial sweeteners — aspartame, saccharin, stevia and sucralose
  • saccharin - found in Sweet ‘N Low

2022-06

2022-06-10

2022-05

2022-05-31

  • https://www.hyrumslaw.com/
    With a sufficient number of users of an API,
    it does not matter what you promise in the contract:
    all observable behaviors of your system
    will be depended on by somebody.

2022-04

2022-04-21

Notes from https://ourworldindata.org/ukraine-russia-food

Country         Ukraine                 Russia
                % of global exports     % of global exports
Sunflower oil   42.21%                  21.40%
Wheat            8.91%                  14.20%
Barley           9.74%                   9.50%
Maize (corn)    16.43%                   1.60%

Country         Ukraine                 Russia
                % of global production  % of global production
Sunflower oil   29.53%                  26.96%
Barley           5.61%                  12.89%
Wheat            3.70%                   9.72%
Maize (corn)     3.12%                   1.24%

2022-04-18

Notes from https://abc7ny.com/colonia-high-school-brain-cancer-new-jersey-nj-woodbridge-township/11756571/

  • The environmental engineering firm T+M Associates
  • an inoperable brain tumor called Anaplastic Astrocytoma
  • Glioblastoma Multiforme or GBM

Notes from https://www.foxnews.com/us/colonia-high-school-rare-cancer-link

  • Acoustic Neuroma (AN)
  • Radiation exposure is a well documented cause of brain tumors
  • The Middlesex Sampling Plant, which has since closed, is located on 9.6 acres, about a 30-minute driving from Colonia.

2022-01

2022-01-31

2022-01-27

    • Use
      def process_data(data, /, *, encoding="ascii"):

      instead of

      def process_data(data, encoding="ascii"):

    • A / in the function signature means that all parameters to the left of it are positional-only parameters. Positional-only parameters can't be passed as keyword arguments.
    • A * in the function signature means that all parameters to the right of it are keyword-only parameter. Keyword-only parameters can't be passed as positional arguments.
    • The article goes over this in more detail and is worth reading once end-to-end.

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