[0]: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/07/26/why-russia...

Amanitas often have a deadly toxin known as Amatoxin, for example.

Some others are sometimes reclassified from toxic to “sort-of-toxic” or “unknown.”

Common mushrooms like Morels can have their toxins cooked out (throw out the cooking water!), while others like Amatoxins will persist.

Still others affect some people, but not others - and some toxins induce negative effects in the presence of other chemicals in the system, like Inky Caps and Alcohol - the combination of which can be deadly, or not, depending on a number of factors.

My understanding of the situation overall is: it’s complicated.

There are some mushrooms that have very few known lookalikes (varies by geo/region), which have a handful of strong identifying factors. Morels, oysters, and a few others come to mind, where if you can confidently confirm these factors, you can be reasonably sure that you’ve identified them correctly.

That said, people sometimes convince themselves of these factors, especially when they haven’t had much experience identifying them before.

I do know a number of members of the IMA that have been there longer than me, and don’t forage at all!

If you're out there looking at a mushroom and think you know what it is, but aren't exactly 100% confident - remember that researchers who dedicate their academic career to fungi are frequently stymied by things found in a 2 hour walk with a few handfuls of volunteers: it might not be what you expect!

So, when you slice a slice, if you perform an array operation like “append” while there is existing capacity, it will use that array space for the new value.

When the sliced value is assigned to another variable, it’s not a pointer that’s copied, it’s a new slice value (with the old length). So, this new value thinks it has capacity to overwrite that last array value - and it does.

So, that also overwrites the other slice’s last value.

If you append again, though, you get a (new) expanded array. It’s easier to see with more variables as demonstrated here: https://go.dev/play/p/AZR5E5ALnLR

(Sorry for formatting issues in that link, on phone)

Check out this post for more details: https://go.dev/blog/slices-intro

I wouldn’t visit Reddit’s blog and interpret talk about their successes there as indicating that the entire forum(s?) exist for marketing the parent.

And although, the HN forum itself definitely is great marketing, I mean to say that not all the content is marketing for YC.

I also wouldn’t draw that conclusion if someone who worked at Reddit submitted the blog post to a subreddit and it got upvoted there.

Unless it was boosted here, it’s only on the front page because of others voting it up. It’s more likely that it’s the PG effect!

Crashed on iPhone XS Max, iOS 17.4 Firefox and safari

We were able to play the Garden round through to the end on an android tablet (Firefox), but when we selected woodland, it froze after the first bird.

That said, aggregators like bonfire etc. can get you pretty far if that’s your strategy!

Turns out, greed is a powerful driver; and, humans are fully capable of self-serving mental gymnastics.