A bit clickbaity. "A high sugar diet decreases sweet taste sensation and blunted sweet taste promotes overconsumption and obesity", but that only applies to sugary stuff, and not to any kind of food; I'm sure it could apply to everything (like people who have to put too much salt in food because they've gotten used to it).

I'd assume that as well, though there is mentioned that Sucralose and fat doesn't have that effect:

"To probe whether taste deficits were due to high dietary sweetness, we examined the taste responses of animals fed a sweet, non-caloric sucralose diet. However, taste responses to sucrose remained unchanged in these flies (Figure 1C, dark green) and there was no fat accumulation (Figure S1F). Similarly, flies fed a calorically dense (1.4 calories/gram as the 30% high sugar diet), but not sweet, lard-supplemented diet accumulated fat (Figure S1G, lime green), but had normal taste responses (Figure 1C), indicating that sweetness or excessive calories alone are insufficient to lower sweet taste sensation. In contrast, only sweet and nutritious diets such as those supplemented with D-fructose, D-glucose, and sucrose promoted a decrease in sweet taste responses (Figure 1D)."

WordPress does it in the admin interface. A very clever hack. Something like:

    a:after {
        content: attr(href);
        display: inline-block;
        padding: 0 1ex;
    }

As someone who plays in an international server of World of Warcraft with a significant Chinese population, allow me to agree with you.

As an example, I speak languages other than English, but I wouldn't dare speak them in a public channel in the game because I know it's impolite. Chinese players didn't get that memo.

But this is part of the same thing as impolite Chinese tourists, etc. It's a cultural thing.

That's never, ever happened to me.

It happens to me all the time. I used to use Gmail API to send mail (personal hobby app, to my own account). Every now and then Gmail would randomly refuse to authenticate through the API because of unsafe or suspicious access or some other BS. Then I would need to jump through some hoops (log in manually though browser, toggle on/off the "allow less secure app" setting, the disable unlock captcha setting, and it would work again for a while before acting up again.

I don't think depreciating the use of "Give your Google account password to $app" or "Give $app a fixed never expiring key that's as good as your password" unless you explicitly enable it is particularly user hostile.

If you used the Gmail API https://developers.google.com/gmail/api and client that supports OAuth instead of SMTP with username/password you wouldn't really run into this problem.

Yeah it kind of sucks for hobbyists because it's not as simple as sending an SMTP email but that's more to do with the lack of good tooling than something fundamental.

Not sure about the situation in Czechia but in Spain (where I live) I'd say most of it is caused by the fact that jobs have moved to the big cities to the point where there's nothing left to do in small/mid-sized towns. Personally I blame shopping centres (which have destroyed most small stores in every town they've settled in, and don't require as many active people) and cheap production in Eastern Europe and China (which has destroyed the secondary sector).

Out of curiosity, what does Eastern Europe produce that Spain needs or buys?

I would like to hear that too. Where do you feel strong competition from eastern eu countries?

Well said. I bitterly hated sqlalchemy because many times I knew perfectly well how to write a query in plain sql but for the life of me I couldn't figure out how to write the same query using the sqlalchemy language.

Doesn't alchemy have an execute method, to which you can pass a raw sql?

Of course it does.

Not that a little detail like that would stop someone from complaining about something that they don't put in the effort to learn.

If you just use that all the time, your coworkers will rightly complain that it's not idiomatic or using the tooling available in code review.

I'm all for SQL, but if the project's set in its ORM then it doesn't make sense to do ORM.raw(...) or whatever out of preference alone.

Yes that's what happened to me. Project requirements.