I skimmed over a lot of the technical stuff but I found it interesting that what is basically a code review was leveraged to make analyses and hypotheses about a culture and a society at large.
Incidentally I wonder if this is not what the humanities, or at least "digital humanities" increasingly ought to be about. Rather than use algorithms to show us obvious stuff about history and literature (yay word clouds!), why not apply historiography's methodology or literary criticism to the study of computer programs and algorithms?
Computer code is almost always thought of in purely functional terms when it has the potential to tell us so much more about its authors and the society in which it was produced.
It would be if OP were an alcoholic which he clearly isn't.
OP does not mention dependence issues, his drinking is not even habitual and the effects on his social life or personal health are minor. All the advice about 12 step programs, lifestyle changes with exercising and teetotaling is going overboard b/c that is clearly not what OP asked about.
Op wanted tips on how to drink "sustainably", I find that drinking light alcoholic beverages is harder to control than hard liquor both for physical and social reasons (more social pressure to drink "light drinks", more stigma on "liquor")
It may depend on the culture of your country and social circle, but cutting beer, wine and cocktails has allowed me to drastically cut my alcohol intake.
For example, people around me will often drink wine while eating lunch or dinner. Or they might offer you a beer if you're coming in on a hot sunday afternoon. Or if you're watching TV together. In all of these situations, drinking hard liquor or asking for it would be strange socially speaking. There are only a few occasions (before dinner with appetizers, after lunch as digestive, while having "a" drink after work...) in which it's okay to drink liquor and to be the only one doing so. And if you're invited, it would be rude to ask for a lot of liquor from your hosts (because it's more expensive than wine and they likely did not prepare for it anyways so the supply is short).
IMO It's also easier to feel you're getting drunk with liquor, because it's not as gradual as beer: when you stand up after having 3 or 4 drinks, it hits you right away that you've had too much. So you know it's time to switch to water.
This is very true. I come from a non-tech (humanities/academia) background and was entirely self-taught when I decided to switch careers. I had only done very specific and quite unmarketable hobby projects on outdated technologies (win32 Assembly, Pascal, Fortran and some PHP/MySQL) and there was no way I would have had a shot at getting a job at any tech corp, let alone a FAANG.
Startups, on the other hand, were hungry for talent. The pay I got at my first job wasn't great, even by startup standards. But it got me working on a more up-to-date stack (JS, Go, Python, Scala, NoSQL DBs...), taught me how to better handle the tradeoffs between clean, robust code and fast shipping and got me a great network.
A few years later, I got no equity, my salary is only decent (nothing FAANG-level, but better than friends at some larger corps) but I like what I do, got a fancy title, manage people and am considered indispensable enough that I can make my own hours.
I've met a large number of people from similarly non-traditional backgrounds as mine (former nurse, geology PhD, classical musician...) in the startup scene and my guess is they would never had a shot at working in tech if it were not for startups.
Incidentally I wonder if this is not what the humanities, or at least "digital humanities" increasingly ought to be about. Rather than use algorithms to show us obvious stuff about history and literature (yay word clouds!), why not apply historiography's methodology or literary criticism to the study of computer programs and algorithms?
Computer code is almost always thought of in purely functional terms when it has the potential to tell us so much more about its authors and the society in which it was produced.