Readit NewsI used to be an admin on a group of about 18 or so connected Counter-Strike 1.6 servers called T3Houston*. We ran modified versions of various Warcraft 3 mods which added persistent XP/leveling, as well as integration with an external item store and player database the owner maintained. Most of those servers were filled to the brim during peak US gaming times, and our forum was quite active.
There aren't many games these days where you could do something like that. I discovered the community because one day I was just looking for a server with open slots for me to join. I was fairly skeptical of whatever a Warcraft mod would be like, but ended up enjoying it so I added it to my favorites. Eventually I got to know the regulars and joined the forum. Notably, the place felt far less toxic than the average server I'd join back then. I can completely believe this is just me looking at the past through rose tinted glasses, but it feels like the general toxicity has gotten worse at the same time as we've lost a lot of tools to manage it.
* If anyone else here remembers the name T3Houston: hi! I'm Stealth Penguin
Nearly all my worthwhile experiences in multiplayer games were related to permanent server communities (CS clan servers, 2fort2furious, SWG emulator servers, ridiculous minecraft servers that were effectively collaborative volumetric databases for external design tools).
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Putting that aside though: yes, 100% pip-tools or an equivalent (which pyenv is not). It's the only sane way to both freeze dependencies for reproducibility, and maintain upgradability. I've used pip-tools for years on many large, complex projects, and it has been a huge benefit every single time. And it routinely revealed significant library-incompatibility problems that teams had only luckily dodged due to not using feature X yet, because pip's resolver has been so braindead for forever.
My main issue with any other "diet" or philosophy has always been my huge appetite. When I ate 6 times a day I was always hungry because the portion size was too low. I have a huge appetite and loves to eat big portions. When I only have 2-3 meals a day, then they can be substantially larger.
If you have trouble eating enough good food already, then IF is not for you.
If you want the alleged health benefits, whether they occur or not, then try a day or two of fasting. But the daily fasting should only be used if it somehow fits your life, schedule and goals.
The right "diet" is the one you can consistently adhere to.
If I instead do "morning IF" and just eat breakfast and lunch, I'm lethargic in the morning and afternoon and hungry to distraction in the evening.
Where did you come up with “thousands” and “likely hundreds”?
Just so the non-Americans reading this have a data point, I’m a single person with Type 1 diabetes who pays $200 a month for my insurance premium (my employer also pays $200 a month). I also pay about $110 a month out of pocket for insulin, $1500ish a year for my glucose monitor, and pay about $250 total a year in various co-pays to see a primary care physician, endocrinologist, and ophthalmologist (maybe 6-7 visits total. This is on a “Gold” plan (the best offered by my employer).
https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/ANTM/anthem/profit...
UHC margins also do not indicate profiteering:
https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/UNH/unitedhealth-g...
Same with CVS/Humana/Cigna:
https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/CVS/cvs-health/pro...
https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/HUM/humana/profit-...
https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/CI/cigna/profit-ma...
It is always interesting to me when people claim insurance companies earn a ton of profit when their profit margins are always in the 5% or lower range. How much smaller should their margins be? Even retail businesses like Walmart need a couple percent of profit margin to survive.
Also, to any non-Americans its always important to put this in the context that "waiving" here means you're still paying thousands per month (between employer and individual) in premiums and likely hundreds in various flavors of co-jargons anytime you step the foot in the door of a care provider even for "covered" care. Insurers always like to portray just providing the service you pay more for than you would in most of the rest of the world as altruism on their part. The major insurance companies providing these waivers (Anthem, UnitedHealth, etc.) all saw order $B profit increases over the pandemic.
We are past the window for incentives -- we have sufficient observation of how individual incentive-guided action plays out in a finite world built of externalities. We are in the window for action: nationalization/collectivization of the offenders, forfeiture of their assets, and redirection into massive creation of renewables, sustainable industry, carbon capture/mitigation, and global relief for the people displaced and impoverished by climate and food disruption.
Why does the UI change with every single Firefox release? I find myself having to re-adjust every time a new update is shipped.
What's wrong with having a consistent experience that survives for more than 6 months? It's just a URL bar, and a bunch of tabs. Just leave it be already.