lambdaba

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by lambdaba 2y ago
everywhere, cancer & chronic disease rates go up as diets get westernized
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by lambdaba 2y ago
> minimizing red meat could you provide the evidence that convinced you that red meat is detrimental to health?
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by lambdaba 2y ago
I'm sorry about your parent. I didn't mean to dunk on Steve Jobs, but I'm sure even he would agree he had an eccentric and extremist personality and the bit about fruitarianism seems very relevant esp with happenings like [As
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by lambdaba 2y ago
I doubt modern fruit, optimized for sweetness, has a very favorable vitamin-mineral/fructose ratio.
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by lambdaba 2y ago
He didn't just eat some fruit, he ate ONLY fruit and JUICED it. He MEGADOSED on fruit.
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by lambdaba 2y ago
"Not much evidence"? That is so far from the truth.
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by lambdaba 2y ago
He was following "fruitarianism" on and off even before his diagnosis, I think it's reasonable to suspect it had something to do with his cancer, but I wasn't aware of those details, so thanks for providing them.
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by lambdaba 2y ago
Steve Jobs is a prime example, he tried to treat his pancreatic cancer with fruit. Also see Thomas Seyfried's work on ketogenic diets for cancer https://www.bc.edu/bc-web/bcnews/science-tech-and-health/bi
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by lambdaba 2y ago
This person likely can afford it and some others without any noticeable impact, I just don't find it appropriate in that circumstance. If you get $15 worth, and can afford it, pay $15, plain and simple.
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by lambdaba 2y ago
I really can't imagine someone with CTO title doesn't have $15/month to pay for YouTube when you're a regular user. People with far fewer resources pay. This goes to content creators, if you're not even seeing ads,
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by lambdaba 2y ago
Yes, training is a tiny amount of usage, this is well-known.
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by lambdaba 2y ago
Inference consumes far more total compute than training the model.
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by lambdaba 2y ago
Claude estimates the average American consumes about 3800 liters of water per day counting all the food inputs (Claude only drank half a cup for this answer).
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by lambdaba 2y ago
One avocado takes 320 liters, I'd rather give up on avocado than Claude.
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by lambdaba 2y ago
Just some transparency would be great. Democracy can't work if the people are not able to understand their government.
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by lambdaba 2y ago
worked for Argentina
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by lambdaba 2y ago
true, until someone hooks up Linux to an LLM and being CLI driven it would have no problems doing this & more (Also, I think PDF viewers can do that well in Linux too, I only use a minimal viewer so I don't know)
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by lambdaba 2y ago
The Books app is even better! But a programmer it's just as quick to run shrinkpdf in a Linux terminal, and, well, more ascetic. I do think Sumatra PDF is good for Windows software, it's not bloated and it's fast.
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by lambdaba 2y ago
re: https://itvision.altervista.org/why.linux.is.not.ready.for.t... super tangential but am I the only one who has an undying love for the Tahoma font?
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by lambdaba 2y ago
I haven't tried it but to me Void seems closer to that ideal, I think it's inspired by BSDs too.
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by lambdaba 2y ago
> descent epub reader I found Sumatra PDF to be great, at least at rendering / reading comfort.
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by lambdaba 2y ago
Years ago DragonFlyBSD seemed by far the coolest, anybody know how it's doing these days?
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by lambdaba 2y ago
Reminded me of this Stallman quote "People sometimes ask me if it is a sin in the Church of Emacs to use vi. Using a free version of vi is not a sin; it is a penance". (I use (Neo)Vi(m) BTW)
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by lambdaba 2y ago
there is no way we will let the Internet Archive die, absolutely no way
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by lambdaba 2y ago
Yes, I know, but I do think the theory is eventually, it would be cheapest and capable for permanent storage, well, storage is cheap already, the matter is more that the host is reliable enough, so it has to be decentralized.
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by lambdaba 2y ago
Anywhere + get the Internet Archive to index it? IPFS could be a contender, though I don't know where it stands now, but it's the ambition, at least.
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by lambdaba 2y ago
true but at a heavy cost
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by lambdaba 2y ago
Magnesium will lower your blood pressure, just take magnesium. The crazy thing is the diuretics that are prescribed to lower blood pressure cause magnesium deficiency.
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by lambdaba 2y ago
They can have value to an invidiual, not everything can or has to be science, and remember this is about an area that lacks any science, not even recognized by doctors.
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by lambdaba 2y ago
I can't, I was making a general statement. There are several large communities around this, that have collectively assembled knowledge about things that sometimes work. No need to summon your favorite boogeymen.

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