Nearly 2 in 5 Americans are covered by Medicare or Medicaid. TANSTAAFL. The other 3 bear the burden. At some point Atlas shrugs and decides welfare is a better deal.
Readit Newssnikeris commented on The healthcare market is taxing reproduction out of existence aaronstannard.com/40k-bab... · Posted by u/Aaronontheweb
snikeris commented on Editing Code in Emacs redpenguin101.github.io/h... · Posted by u/redpenguin101
> Changing basic key bindings is the quickest way to vitiate that symbiosis.
Unless you change those as well
> All to say: learning emacs movement keys pays off.
It can also cost you RSI, so not worth it
I've found it crucial to have Control mapped to the keys immediately next to and on both sides of the spacebar. Thumbs are stronger than pinkies for modifying keypresses.
We all talk a lot about the mind over the body and emotions, so you can act stoicly regardless of your internal experience and how your body feels, and it's all fine, but it's important to make a point that your mood is more dependent on your body health than you think at first. How depressed you are can for instance be linked to the last time you went to the loo and how great your turds look (https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychiatry/articles/10....)
So take care of your mind, but also take care of your body. Don't be treating your body like crap and expect you can only will yourself into acting better.
"It is hard for an empty sack to stand upright."
- Benjamin Franklin
snikeris commented on Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017) johnsalvatier.org/blog/20... · Posted by u/lis
> If you wish to not get stuck, seek to perceive what you have not yet perceived
This may seem like impractical advice. How does one increase the scope of perception? Personally, I’ve found that a meditation practice leads to this.
snikeris commented on Baffled by generational garbage collection – wingolog wingolog.org/archives/202... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
I think the idea is to reduce the set of memory that needs to be frequently collected. Long lived objects age to the old generation which can be large and infrequently collected. I've used this kind of collector in the past for applications which held a large and mostly static dataset in memory.
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snikeris commented on How corn syrup took over America thehustle.co/originals/ho... · Posted by u/paulpauper
I don't quite get how Americans love sugar so much. I mean, I I could smell the cloy miles away from a pastry shop, especially those in a supermarket like Safeway. The highest praise to an American pastry shop is usually "their stuff is not that sweet". I usually cut the suggested sugar by 2/3 from a US recipe and still make very sweet cakes. Oh, and last time I checked, every god damn ketchup contains 22(!) sugars. Why?
This is the ketchup you are looking for:
snikeris commented on Programming as Theory Building (1985) [pdf] pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/... · Posted by u/bsoles
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 improved by abstraction.
snikeris commented on Programming as Theory Building (1985) [pdf] pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/... · Posted by u/bsoles
> The "sufficient explanation of the goals/problem" is the code—anything less is totally insufficient.
somewhat in that spirit, I like Gerald Sussman's interpretation of software development as "problem solving by debugging-almost right plans", in e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MYzvQ1v8Ww
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 ideas about methodology. Thus, programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.
> If the world doesn't need a particular task to be done by humans, then the task should be performed by robots.
The problem is, our society isn't ready for that shift, not even close. Employment opportunities for the low skilled have all but gone down the drain - there is a reason why Walmart, Amazon and the other usual suspects love to set up shop in devastated communities: they have a captive audience that has no other realistic opportunities for gainful employment and thus is much, much less likely to resist when faced with exploitative and/or abusive conditions.
Warehouse work and logistics in general is the last employment opportunity many of these people have, and while it being replaced by robots may be better for society as a whole (if one follows the belief that all work should be done by machines so that humans can follow their individual interests), just standing by idling around while the markets enforce the shift is going to be a political disaster.
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.