It's a generally accepted belief that as you age, your resting metabolism slows --especially over age 40. And if you are a woman in menopause, your metabolism slows even more.

Not true, says a new paper published in Science. By analyzing data from nearly 6,500 people ranging in age from infancy to elderly, the paper's authors determined that resting metabolism holds steady from age 20 to 60 before logging a decrease of less than 1% per year thereafter.

Now you might be wondering why you feel like your metabolism has slowed down.

The answer is less about age and more about lifestyle. Although your baseline resting metabolic rate may not have changed between ages 20 and 60, the factors involved in boosting other aspects of your metabolism -- when you are not resting -- likely changed, lowering your ability to metabolize fat, maximize the caloric burn from exercise, increase energy-burning muscle mass and get quality rest to enable metabolic processes.

Hot take: YAML isn't a configuration language or a configuration language format, it's a serialization format. Is de-serializing some data structures the best way to configure a program? Maybe not. (Probably not. Mostly not.)

Like programming languages, all configuration systems communicate with both the computer and other people. But most are designed only for the computer to consume, not to be clear when people read it. De-serializing your live data structures is an extreme example of this.

"I'm writing up a PhD deliverable (which will show up here eventually) using LaTeX, which is my preferred tool for such things, since I also use it for papers, and will eventually be using it for my thesis itself. For this last document, I experimented with a few packages and techniques for organising the document which I found useful, so I thought I'd share them."

Great essay with lots of interesting pointers.

Install, configure, and use Open Broadcaster Software to record how-to, promotional, and other types of videos.

Focusing on the human element of remote software engineer productivity.

Ah, C. Still the language of modern high-performance computing.

C is the lowest-level language most programmers will ever use, but it more than makes up for it with raw speed. Just be aware of its manual memory management and C will take you as far as you need to go.

This is a maintained technical guide that aims to provide introduction to various online tracking techniques, online id verification techniques and guidance to creating and maintaining (truly) anonymous online identities including social media accounts safely and legally. No pre-requisites besides English reading are required.

GPT-3, or Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3, is a piece of AI from the OpenAI group that takes text from the user, and writes a lot more for them.

And, freaking heck am I am impressed at what folks have managed to build around the GPT-3 technology.