I thought the same, seems obvious to me but I think a lot of people are still following the food pyramid and "all fat is bad" propaganda.
Although on a perhaps more humourous note: if bread, croissants and sugary fruit is considered a healthy breakfast, I'm dying to know what GP thinks an unhealthy one is.
I am speaking from experience. The first conflict is always a picture of where a new relationship will lead, and each conflict after that determines whether the relationship will deepen or weaken.
I imagine it’s the kind of thing that has been studied!
I definitely catch myself reaching for the LLM because thinking is too much effort. It's quite a scary moment for someone who prides themself on their ability to think.
As always on here, a lot of people appear to act as if there are universal truths about our craft.
I would posit that the exact enviroment you are in changes massively what is correct, what is a good rule of thumb and what is a bad practice.
What applies to a game developer does not apply to a web developer. What applies to a product developer does not apply to a library developer. What applies in a startup does not apply in a legacy org.
I'm sure there are some universal truths, but usually they are principles and not prescriptions.
E.g. Code should probably lean toward readability, but you quickly come up against time constraints, language constraints, performance constraints, interpersonal conflict, etc.
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To that end, I would ask that when discussing what we find to be useful or not useful, that we caveat with the enviroments that we have found this to be true.
I would be sceptical about such a unique evolutionary adaptation occurring in such a short time period. _The_ ice age (the last one) was just yesterday in evolutionary terms.
Punctuated equilibrium [1] is one of the predominant theories of evolution so it’s not at all far fetched. In that theory population bottlenecks are one of the main mechanisms of cladogenesis.
Adaptation need not only mean genetic (slow), it could just as well be epigenetic. The latter is not well-understood enough to be taught in school textbooks yet, but has been of great interest in recent decades.
Both the phenotype and the genotype of a species/population can, and do change overnight. Think about nazis killing people with big noses. The average nose size for humans shrank, and the responsible genes disappeared.
Evolution (as the change of the characteristics of a species) working in million years is stupid. It doesn't even need one generation.
> Dogs seldom kill humans directly. Rather, they are primarily a vector that transmits rabies
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