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bosie commented on “Captain Gains” on Capitol Hill   nber.org/papers/w34524... · Posted by u/mhb
MikeNotThePope · 2 months ago
Here's my hot take: politicians should be paid a lot of money, and in return they should be subject to limits on how they can invest, if they can invest at all. Remove the incentives that cause corruption and attract talent. I think it's a bit naive to say that public servants need to be earning a meager salary. Underpaid people don't stay in their roles very long.
bosie · 2 months ago
> Remove the incentives that cause corruption and attract talent.

has it been shown that a salary would actually remove the incentives for corruption? maybe for some but greed is a strong incentive.

bosie commented on Kagi Reaches 50k Users   kagi.com/stats?stat=membe... · Posted by u/tigroferoce
jwr · 8 months ago
Update: I am no longer a Kagi user. I learned that they work with Russian companies and I can't support that for moral reasons. I canceled my subscription.

A real pity.

bosie · 8 months ago
what do you use instead?
bosie commented on Kagi Reaches 50k Users   kagi.com/stats?stat=membe... · Posted by u/tigroferoce
jessekv · 8 months ago
I have DDG as the default search in Safari (because Kagi is not an option, maybe it requires profit sharing with Apple?) and I often end up using DDG out of convenience while being a Kagi subscriber.

I agree there is not a lot of differentiation between stock Kagi search and DDG. DDG still has a few ads but it's not that annoying, perfectly usable.

Kagi's assistants are pretty interesting though. Recently I asked it to find back a post that I vaguely remembered. It managed to generate a bunch of Kagi searches with different keywords and narrow it down to an old tweet.

bosie · 8 months ago
can't you use their extension in safari to set kagi as the default search engine?
bosie commented on How long does it take to create a new habit? (2015)   thelogicaloptimist.com/in... · Posted by u/rzk
lesostep · 10 months ago
Does he need that much? I'm pretty sure 5-6 generations ago the most muscular and the strongest man in my region ate turnips and grains with the occasional meat. The only other big source of meat were beans and realistically people at the time didn't eat more then 50-70 grams a day of them. Eating meat everyday is a very recent development. Why we suddenly need so much protein that we struggle to find it in a basic food that is more rich and varied then a few hundred years ago?
bosie · 10 months ago
The current recommendation is in this region, yes. The bare minimum is 0.8g per kg. But that is survival mode.

I am generally not a huge fan of the historical line of thinking. 6 generations ago you died significantly earlier with not a great health along the way. It is a very recent development to live to (avg) 83. Would the strongest man in your region perform at a high level if he wasn't doing manual labour and died at 95?

bosie commented on How long does it take to create a new habit? (2015)   thelogicaloptimist.com/in... · Posted by u/rzk
californical · 10 months ago
I mean a healthy diet is a variety of fruits and vegetables, with a decent supplement of whole grains and occasional lean meats and eggs. Minimally processed as much as possible - whole ingredients should be the majority of calories.

The details don’t matter so much, as long as you get a variety and generally stick to the above guidelines.

I think you can judge how healthy a diet is by how many people get diseases, malnutrition or premature death as a result of a diet, and almost nobody is going to suffer because of that diet plan above.

bosie · 10 months ago
What's your protein intake with that diet though? A person with 80kg needs around 120-160g of protein a day (depending on activity etc), that seems tricky if the source of your protein is non-animal based.
bosie commented on My 16-month theanine self-experiment   dynomight.net/theanine/... · Posted by u/dynm
mg · a year ago
I write into a text file on my phone. And later move those lines into the file on my computer.

It's a bit cumbersome, but not too much. But yeah, I look forward to when I finally get around to writing an app for it.

bosie · a year ago
do you use an app and shortcuts (or something similar) to speed this up?
bosie commented on The Toyota Prius transformed the auto industry   spectrum.ieee.org/toyota-... · Posted by u/pseudolus
lotsofpulp · a year ago
Electric vehicles are not “very” expensive, even in Europe, and it’s a capital expense. That charger is going to be useful for decades to come.

And if electric vehicles pencil out in the US to equal cost of gas cars including oil changes and all that, then surely they do in Europe with their higher gas costs.

bosie · a year ago
Can you put numbers to not very expensive? Looking at vw for their ev equivalents, for me personally, it qualifies as very expensive (without subsidies)
bosie commented on Llama-OCR: Document to Markdown   llamaocr.com/... · Posted by u/lapnect
8n4vidtmkvmk · a year ago
"Terrascan" is a vision model? The only hits I'm getting are for a static code analyzer.
bosie · a year ago
sorry, i meant "Tesseract"
bosie commented on Llama-OCR: Document to Markdown   llamaocr.com/... · Posted by u/lapnect
8n4vidtmkvmk · a year ago
That's a bummer. I'm trying to do the exact same thing right now, digitize family photos. Some of mine have German on the back. The last OCR to hit headlines was terrible, was hoping this would be better. ChatGPT 4o has been good though, when I paste individual images into the chat. I haven't tried with the API yet, not sure how much that would cost me to process 6500 photos, many of which are blank but I don't have an easy way to filter them either.
bosie · a year ago
Use a local rubbish model to extract text. If it doesn’t find any on the back, don’t send it to chatgtp?

Terrascan comes to mind

bosie commented on Excerpts from a conversation about personal information management   sachachua.com/blog/2024/1... · Posted by u/JNRowe
ActionHank · a year ago
As a systemiser using GTD I have an ever growing list of items to get to should I complete items for the day, but I don't understand how you could expect to address 133 items in a day.

If the approach is to let low priority items roll over, that just seems like a recipe for dropping the ball.

Are people getting through 133 items in a day? That's 216 seconds per item.

bosie · a year ago
Yes but I use OmniFocus for habit learning or reminding myself to take eg meds. Taking 7 meds or supplements in 20 seconds is doable :)

u/bosie

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