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This post highlights the importance of version control and provides best practices for using Git, including branching effectively and using conventional commits.

Git Gud: Version Control Best Practices

The post discusses the disparities in life expectancy relative to health expenditure across different countries, highlighting that the USA has low life expectancy despite high health spending. It underscores that factors such as malnutrition, obesity, poor housing, unsafe water, and high rates of suicide and violent deaths significantly impact life expectancy. Additionally, it presents data showing cause-specific death rates and compares them to countries with higher life expectancy to identify key areas where the USA lags behind.

Death rates by cause of death by @ellis2013nz

The {alone} package v0.5 is now available, featuring new subtitle and description fields for episodes. This release includes data from Alone Season 11, which is now ready for analysis. Notably, Season 11 is tied with Season 6 as the second highest-rated season on IMDb, while Season 7 remains the highest-rated. Three participants survived over 80 days in Season 11, similar to Season 7.

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