this seems an entirely plausible practice for checking/guiding/reviewing ones thinking. Will try it.

These problems are why we are starting a new, rival theory and practice: robust altruism. We plan to

1) be less susceptible to hijacking

2) be less prone to harmful fanaticism

3) balance short- and long-term perspectives

Wish us luck.

the music player has problems even if you dont subscribe to "apple music", too.

Alas! Its a different Craig.

true, but elephants dont speak English.

Is this an appeal to the authority? Gary Taubes, as far as I can tell, has no background in nutritional science whatsoever. In fact, the wikipedia article on him states rather matter-of-factly "Some of the views propounded by Taubes are inconsistent with known science surrounding obesity."

look at "Good Calories Bad Calories" by Gary Taubes https://www.amazon.com/Good-Calories-Bad-Gary-Taubes-ebook/d...

as well as "The Big Fat Surprise" by Nina Teicholz as mentioned.

Each of these paints a fully researched rebuttal to the mainline nutrition science sources you cite. Roughly "All of modern nutrition science is woefully corrupted, since about 1940".

Peanuts are legumes, like peas, but present far more problems with allergies. Eggs are far more resource intensive to produce than peas and also present ethical problems (e.g. what to do with male chicks - throw them alive in a grinder or suffocate them?). Cow production has similar issues, like water usage.

> what to do with male chicks - throw them alive in a grinder or suffocate them?

Let them grow to adulthood and then eat them?

Like most adult male animals, they taste terrible and stringy. Even pre-industrial societies didn't bother rearing male animals for meat.

I’m sure they could deal with it in a better way than they do, ethically - but they’re operating under the restraints of capitalism, which says compassion is too costly.

I think its less about a sign function than about showing how optional (i.e. nullable) values work. Most languages have them, and making that possibility explicit is recent best practice.

As fjfaase said “The first is that you should try to include realistic examples in your documentation and promote good coding styles.”

That ‘sign’ example could be somewhat improved by having it return an optional int instead (returning null on null inputs), or by having it take a double and return an optional int (returning null for not-a-numbers), but I think it isn’t that hard to come up with a more realistic short example.