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⛏️ Senate votes to allow copper mining near Minnesota wilderness The Senate voted 50 to 49 on Thursday to repeal a Biden-era moratorium on new mining across more than 225,000 acres of Minnesota’s Superior National Forest, which encompasses the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. The House had already passed the Republican-led resolution under the Congressional Review Act of 1996, and President Donald Trump is expected to sign it into law. The measure clears the way for Twin Metals Minnesota, a subsidiary of Chilean mining giant Antofagasta, to pursue a copper and nickel mine roughly five miles from the wilderness area. Environmentalists, Native American tribes who depend on the watershed for fishing and wild rice harvesting, and hunting and fishing groups had fought the project for years, warning of contamination from heavy metals and sulfuric acid.

We don’t allow mining in Yellowstone. We don’t allow mining in Glacier. We don’t allow mining in Yosemite. We don’t allow mining in Zion. We don't allow mining in Acadia. We don't allow mining in Grand Teton. We shouldn’t allow mining in the Boundary Waters.

my toxic trait is that I think I can code it in a week

Warren Buffett On Real Estate:

Nietzsche can hype you up

“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how“ - Nietzsche

Sam Bankman-Fried donated $100 million in stolen customer funds to US politicians. Today, the US Government announced they're dropping six charges against SBF and will not prosecute him for a political campaign finance violation.

I wish I knew this life hack sooner… It's my adaptation of the Feynman Technique. Once you implement it, you'll learn anything 10x faster:

NEW JWST IMAGE OF URANUS AND ITS ABSOLUTELY STUNNING

@davesnx How does it cost you big?

Do not build URLs with string concatenation. Use URL module or a better abstraction, it can cost you big $. From someone who learned the hard way 😖

10 Python libraries that you haven't used before but are awesome: 1. Black: Formatter 2. Pendulum: Date/time 3. Poetry: Dependencies 4. Flake8: Linting 5. Pytest: Testing 6. Requests: RESTful 7. Itertools: Iterators 8. PyQt5: GUI 9: Bowler: Refactoring 10: Click: CLI

All keywords in a programming language should start with a symbol like @ or : and not take away useful names 🙅 From the creator of clazz var_ _type

@willmcgugan I regularly optimize my Python code. When building apps for users I try to make sure the experience is pain less and fast.

Does anyone consciously micro optimise their Python code? To put it another way, what use cases of Python really care about raw execution speed?

`git sync` is now one of the commands I use the most often... Except it's not a proper command, it's an alias I added 👇 mathspp.com/blog/til/delet… Thanks, @AdamChainz & others! :D

This fundamentally changes how humans work with computers

5. Automate. This always come last, automation should only be implemented after your process has been perfected.

4. Accelerate cycle time. Every process can be sped up, but only do this after the first three steps.

I am currently reading @elonmusk's biography by @WalterIsaacson. Last night I came across Elon’s “algorithm” the five commandments he utilizes when engineering solutions. Follow along with this thread to learn all about them. 🧵⬇️ #Elonmusk #tesla #SpaceX #Engineering