> > Here's something most developers overlook: if an LLM has a 2% JSON defect rate, and Response Healing drops that to 1%, you haven't just made a 1% improvement. You've cut your defects, bugs, and support tickets in half.
How much would you save yearly if you didn't have a dog?
A few accumulated years of those savings would let you buy a better-quality drier or washing machine - saving you from replacing them regularly, or replacing your damaged clothes.
Pets are a choice that's fairly high up the Maslow hierarchy. Get rid of them, get into a better position, build up some reserves, and leave your family in a better place than you started.
Also raise your family so they have the same mindset - they need to leave their children in a better place than they started.
$1,360 a year. Use it to buy higher quality goods that will save you more in the long run. Use the ongoing $1,360 a year PLUS the accumulating savings gained from the higher quality goods to repeat at higher levels.
A lot of the discourse about poverty reminds me of this:
> I do occasional work for my hospital’s Addiction Medicine service, and a lot of our conversations go the same way.
> My attending tells a patient trying to quit that she must take a certain pill that will decrease her drug cravings. He says it is mostly covered by insurance, but that there will be a copay of about one hundred dollars a week.
> The patient freaks out. “A hundred dollars a week? There’s no way I can get that much money!”
> My attending asks the patient how much she spends on heroin.
> The patient gives a number like thirty or forty dollars a day, every day.
> My attending notes that this comes out to $210 to $280 dollars a week, and suggests that she quit heroin, take the anti-addiction pill, and make a “profit” of $110.
> At this point the patient always shoots my attending an incredibly dirty look. Like he’s cheating somehow. Just because she has $210 a week to spend on heroin doesn’t mean that after getting rid of that she’d have $210 to spend on medication. Sure, these fancy doctors think they’re so smart, what with their “mathematics” and their “subtracting numbers from other numbers”, but they’re not going to fool her.
> At this point I accept this as a fact of life. Whatever my patients do to get money for drugs – and I don’t want to know – it’s not something they can do to get money to pay for medication, or rehab programs, or whatever else. I don’t even think it’s consciously about them caring less about medication than about drugs, I think that they would be literally unable to summon the motivation necessary to get that kind of cash if it were for anything less desperate than feeding an addiction.
If you can't bear to have a single good thing said about someone (anyone)... it may be time to consider whether you're taking it too far, and becoming someone who is working the political divisiveness that you abhor.
Take a break, walk outside, talk to some people... breathe.
I have. I went for a long walk and I also talked to people today of varying opinions about the state of the country and of the event.
If you can link me a video of Kirk being thoughtful, kind, humble, and calling for peace and unity for all Americans and that we should work for a more accepting and loving democracy, I would be interested.
Not all people are good people. That doesn't justify political violence. It means we don't have to automatically speak kindly of people because they have passed.
Sounds like there are some parallels. I'm not sure if it's the same in this case, but Mary Mallon was given a court order to give up her job as a cook, but that was the best paying job she could get, so lacking the financial resources necessary to survive without that job she returned to it.
I think the public policy lesson there is: you can't just tell people to stop doing things they have to do in order to exist. If it's necessary in rare cases to tell people to stop working, then it's up to the state to provide them the financial resources to survive.
Germ theory was also pretty new at the time and not something most working class people would know about, nor did Mary have symptoms.
Contrary to today, germ theory is taught in elementary schools and is well understood by basically everyone. And this woman was clearly experiencing symptoms bad enough to require an ER visit! Visiting the ER likely also means that most of the common religious reasons such as being a Christian Scientist are out the window.
The article mentions translators, so there's evidently some sort of language barrier, and probably a cultural one as well.
Even if she did fully understand that she's supposed to socially distance and observe a lot of very strict precautions to not infect anyone, it's not clear if she had the financial means to actually follow all those rules, which likely prevented her from working.
The previous discussion of this situation (link needed) had some discussion on typhoid Mary. That previous thread was actually where I learned about the story.
And even if the caffeine did improve productivity over and above the break itself, that still doesn't prove that the bill doesn't come due later, outside of work hours.
I'd like to see the results from comparing coffee, tea, a caffeine-free herbal tea, water, a break without any substance, a break at your workspace vs a break at a breakroom some distance away, sitting while drinking vs standing while drinking, sun vs indoors, conversation vs silence, and so on.
This sounds AI written.