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by snikeris 2y ago
This is the ketchup you are looking for: https://www.truemadefoods.com/
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by snikeris 2y ago
How good are LLMs at reducing code? For example, will they recognize a common problem and build an abstraction around it? I imagine that the solutions they produce tend to have a lot of repetition with small differences that could be improv
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by snikeris 2y ago
The point is also brought up a few times in SICP: > First, we want to establish the idea that a computer language is not just a way of getting a computer to perform operations, but rather that it is a novel formal medium for expressing i
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by snikeris 2y ago
I worked for a Walmart store as a young man. It was well run, and they were adamant that you took your breaks throughout the day. I faced no exploitative or abusive conditions and was well paid.
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by snikeris 2y ago
A quote from SICP: > First, we want to establish the idea that a computer language is not just a way of getting a computer to perform operations, but rather that it is a novel formal medium for expressing ideas about methodology. Thus, p
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by snikeris 2y ago
Yes, indeed. It’s like you are witnessing the unfolding of the universe with each move.
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by snikeris 2y ago
I have trouble believing in God, but when I play chess, I sometimes get the sense that it’s not me and the opponent playing against each other, but God playing against himself. I guess it’s something to do with the mystery of insights.
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by snikeris 2y ago
Like infertility.
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by snikeris 2y ago
A Man of Parts and Learning Fara Dabhoiwala on the Portrait of Francis Williams This was the best thing I’ve read all year. If you don’t know why it’s on Hacker News, then you didn’t read it. https://news.ycombinator.com/ite
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by snikeris 2y ago
How might a thread’s ranking drop off so precipitously?
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by snikeris 2y ago
I don’t think they’ve kept all the crazies in check. Most pain and anxiety “medicines” are harmful. People are dying today due to drugs the FDA has deemed safe.
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by snikeris 2y ago
Hmm, I think it’s more like Medicare / Medicaid decides these matters, and the rest of the system is shaped around these programs. People with insurance have the worst of both worlds: they get socialized quality medicine but still have
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by snikeris 2y ago
> No, things should be regulated so that individuals have no choice but to do the right thing. Good luck clawing back the 10% of SNAP benefits spent on soda.
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by snikeris 2y ago
Perhaps in a casino taking a rake. But if you're playing w/ friends? The good times make it positive sum. Even in a casino, the players can be getting enough utility / enjoyment out of the game that it's positive sum.
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by snikeris 2y ago
Possessing the GG variant of COMT rs4680 gene might explain this. Conversely, AA types might get overstimulated and irritable.
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by snikeris 2y ago
You’re missing out on the phytochemicals that contribute to the positive effects of drinking tea or coffee. You’re getting all the bad (and good) of chronic caffeine stimulation, with none of the plant medicine benefits that tea and coffee
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by snikeris 2y ago
> If i could have a good filter which really can control my internet usage without giving away my privacy that would be awesome. This is the domain of your conscience. It notifies you when your actions and values lack alignment.
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by snikeris 2y ago
Ya that’s about right. Utopianism is the quest to attain or implement an ideal society.
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by snikeris 2y ago
Aren’t we faced with the same fundamental mystery of human insight? Where does it come from?
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by snikeris 2y ago
> That's one way to think of it. But you also can just say: the only way to have equal care is to raise the standard of all care to the quality of high end care. That's worth trying to achieve even if it's not logically pe
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by snikeris 2y ago
Hunger is anchored to our circadian rhythm which nearly coincides with the clock. So we tend to be hungry around the same time each day.
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by snikeris 3y ago
My thinking on this subject is based on this criteria: How do you measure success of an organism? Another way of putting it is how do you measure the fitness of an individual to its environment? The only thing that makes sense to me is by c
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by snikeris 3y ago
How many children ought we produce on average?
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by snikeris 3y ago
https://www.afterbabel.com/
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by snikeris 3y ago
Was this diagnosis from your employer or colleagues?
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by snikeris 3y ago
I disagree. People exposed to social media will have worse reproductive outcomes. Fewer, sicker children.
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by snikeris 3y ago
Someone posted it earlier on HN, but I couldn’t find it.
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Covid-19: Negligence by Experts(blogs.bmj.com)
31 points by snikeris 3y ago|3 comments
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by snikeris 3y ago
The characters Peter Keating and Howard Roark in Rand's The Fountainhead were portrayals of this theme. Although both architects, Keating is the inner ringer, while Roark is the outsider craftsman.
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by snikeris 4y ago
This is the same fallacy that people make when they think that war is good for the economy. They somehow imagine that people are better off when we spend money bombing eachother.

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