theneverfox

Jeez, that's crazy... That's an insanely high effectiveness, but it does seem like there's something behind it. Guess I'm going to buy more carrots

Ok, I read the abstract, and honestly it's beyond my understanding of biology. I can usually understand how things interact at least on a basic level, I don't understand this one

Can you just dump your steam of consciousness understanding of this for me? Ideally I'd like to know how it might interact with cancer/the immune system, but your understanding of the statistics would also be appreciated. I'd like all your thoughts on this, don't worry about formatting or flow - if you just dump your thoughts on the topic it'll help me learn from it

Is the carrot thing true? That sounds way too big of an effect

That's how someone with ADHD sounds without a filter (we can understand each other at least). All I did is leave out the transitions that links these (to me, obviously related) concepts together

LLMs are the other way around - way to much transition with little substance.

Everything about my experiences experimenting with LLMs sounds unhinged without proof anyways. So I don't see a need to edit my late night rant, eventually I'll start a blog to lay out my methodology and chat logs to support it

The worst part is Obamacare wasn't even good - it was a huge compromise with insurance companies... Before it was further compromised and sabotaged. It came out of the heritage foundation after all - everything they come up with is some way to cause mass suffering to make a few people a lot of money

On the pro column, they gave up preexisting condition rejections - definitely good - and increased child coverage to 25 - which is nice to have I guess. It also made it easier to get health care not coupled to your job. Which would be great, except insurance gives you so much less protection at this point that people aren't much better off than they were uninsured before

On the minus side, they came up with standards of care, which creates so much documentation it drove most of private practice out of business, forcing them to join healthcare systems. It's as much as 2-4x as much time doing paperwork as seeing patients, and then the doctor has to negotiate with the insurance company back and forth on a case by case basis.

And healthcare systems are basically regional monopolies, which is why costs ballooned so ridiculously. It was always bad in this country, but nowhere near this bad.

They also overwork doctors, which is probably a big part of why outcomes are getting worse - they're running healthcare as a business. People who have zero healthcare training are min-maxing health system policies to make line go up

Not to mention, the one big win was supposed to be a public option on the healthcare marketplaces - the idea is you get something like a government run, at-cost insurance company. That was going to be the base line - private competition with "government inefficiency"

It's all just such a shit show - the solution is so simple too. Insurance does three things - it collects a little money from a lot of people to cover big costs from the minority who suddenly needs a lot of it. It uses economies of scale/collective bargaining to keep costs down on the provider side. And it has to have enough bureaucracy/oversight to keep embezzlement/fraud/kickbacks at sustainable levels (you don't even have to stop it, you could just keep good records and watch for large scale offenders, and come down on them hard)

All of those things are better done without a profit incentive, and they work better the more people are in this kind of union... It's mind boggling that people don't understand how straightforward it is.

Hell, know what happens when a homeless man comes into the ER and racks up a 6 figure bill because they couldn't afford treatment until they're at deaths door? The hospital doesn't just eat the cost, we all pay for it collectively anyways

I definitely get less sneers these days when I talk about things like this

Hell, you know what - I'm going to double down on your bright side - if the enshitification wasn't so public and rapid, it might've been too late before normal people started noticing

Can we just take a second to say what utter bullshit it is that "facilitating piracy" is so allowed to be an argument?

How are we in this wacky world where rights holders get to say "what you built allows piracy, we demand total control over you"

I definitely noticed, before quantum (like 5 years ago) single page apps and frameworks like react were becoming a thing, and it was noticeably less snappy than chrome

After they announced the rewrite to better handle shadow doms and partial repaints, I switched for everything but development

Since then, they've done another rewrite, and the dev tools are closer, so I only open chrome when a site I have to use isn't working, or by client request

Oh hell yeah... Thank you friend. I immediately downloaded it, and it took me all of 30 seconds to realize this is it

This is what I've been looking for, for years now. I even took a crack at it myself several years ago, but then I realized it wasn't possible without doing an extension (rather than a plug-in) if I wanted to do it right

You have mitigated one of most inconvenient recurring problems in my life. I'm working on a lemmy app right now, and I'm so grateful I'm going to move up the "mark user as friend" feature.

How would you like me to guild your username so I might recognize you in the future? Lit up border? Tiny crown on your avatar? A little lemmy gold symbol next to the score? I'm open to suggestion

I've heard this over and over...

But people still aren't getting it (despite increasingly obvious signs this is already causing problems that will soon get much worse), so I guess we need to keep saying it

Quality instant ramen is pretty delicious, but it's not that cheap or healthy

Get an appropriately sized rice cooker, it's a super easy and cheap staple food that's endlessly versatile.

Want Mexican food? Fry up some beans, veg, and/or eggs with cumin or taco seasoning and you've got a burrito bowl. Want fried rice? Toss it in too and season it. Want a simple breakfast meal? Fry an egg sunny side up and toss it on top. Feeling lazy or putting off a grocery store run? Pack it together and you get onigiri

You can even turn it into porridge (I've never tried it, my friend said it's good)

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