The article suggests there’s evidence that screen time has the opposite effect. A little surprising but I guess for a lot of people it is more stimulating than watching the news or soaps all day
In the U.K. I was betting 5 minute binary options back in 2008 and parlays or accumulators as we call them (accys for short) have been popular for a while too.
Rightly or wrongly, The Gambling Act 2005 put the UK literally decades ahead of places like the US in terms of creating a legal framework for sports betting/gambling in general.
The forces that made those shops appear and made the greengrocers disappear are not natural, inevitable, and foolish to resist. They are just laws, laws that permitted some things and discouraged others, taxed some things and subsidized others.
In my experience there’s still much more to this. I’m sure it helps at population level like the article describes but it’s not foolproof. For our first we were feeding nuts early and still developed an allergy to all nuts. Our second didn’t get nuts until much later and he’s fine. There’s more to the story than timing, notably my first has eczema and asthma too so there’s that atopic march.
> There’s more to the story than timing, notably my first has eczema and asthma too so there’s that atopic march.
Eczema often comes with digestive issues, bowl inflammation, loose stool, blood in the stool etc.
Eczema essentially gives you wounds, if you allow allergens to enter the bloodstream directly without going through the digestive tract you are at an increased risk of developing allergies.
For kids/babies with these kind of issues it's probably better to delay introducing common allergens until their gut can heal or you will end up causing allergies rather than preventing them.
Allergy rate decreases with birth order. Of course, that's at the population level and probably not strong enough effect to notice if you only poll a dozen parents you know.
Sadly, the majority of the people want these policies because they’ve been brainwashed or they’re too apathetic to care. The major political parties want it too. Democracy is flawed.
I couldn’t agree more. I think we should just write our pipelines in languages our teams are familiar with and prioritise being able to run them locally.
That is the key function any serious CI platform needs to tackle to get me interested. FORCE me to write something that can run locally. I'll accept using containers, or maybe even VMs, but make sure that whatever I build for your server ALSO runs on my machine.
I absolutely detest working on GitHub Actions because all too often it ends up requiring that I create a new repo where I can commit to master (because for some reason everybody loves writing actions that only work on master). Which means I have to move all the fucking secrets too.
Solve that for me PLEASE. Don't give me more YAML features.
People don’t have a nuanced view of when to use sunscreen. You can see for yourself in the comments, there’s plenty of loud certainty and context is left behind. And I’d have expected this group to at least understand that the need for sunscreen is based on the position of the sun during the day.
Probably mitigated by the fact that the most popular SUVs in the UK are effectively just tall hatchbacks. People think Range Rovers but the bestsellers are like Kia Sportage and Ford Puma.
Big caveat that I’ve not read the book but I get that the premise is “legacy code is code that is untested” and I’ve always struggled with that definition. I think a more accepted definition would be that it is not well understood, uses old tooling/languages/runtimes and is usually high stakes code (driving some business that was successful enough to last longer than the staff that coded it up). I’m sure added tests help deal with legacy code under that definition but not sure it’s the panacea, I’ve certainly seen code without tests lots very high coverage that people area afraid to work on due to them being unfamiliar with the domain and codebase.
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