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Steve Jobs is a prime example, he tried to treat his pancreatic cancer with fruit.

Also see Thomas Seyfried's work on ketogenic diets for cancer https://www.bc.edu/bc-web/bcnews/science-tech-and-health/bio...

This person likely can afford it and some others without any noticeable impact, I just don't find it appropriate in that circumstance. If you get $15 worth, and can afford it, pay $15, plain and simple.

I really can't imagine someone with CTO title doesn't have $15/month to pay for YouTube when you're a regular user. People with far fewer resources pay. This goes to content creators, if you're not even seeing ads, they don't get paid.

Yes, training is a tiny amount of usage, this is well-known.

Inference consumes far more total compute than training the model.

Claude estimates the average American consumes about 3800 liters of water per day counting all the food inputs (Claude only drank half a cup for this answer).

One avocado takes 320 liters, I'd rather give up on avocado than Claude.

Just some transparency would be great. Democracy can't work if the people are not able to understand their government.

worked for Argentina

true, until someone hooks up Linux to an LLM and being CLI driven it would have no problems doing this & more (Also, I think PDF viewers can do that well in Linux too, I only use a minimal viewer so I don't know)

The Books app is even better! But a programmer it's just as quick to run shrinkpdf in a Linux terminal, and, well, more ascetic.

I do think Sumatra PDF is good for Windows software, it's not bloated and it's fast.

re: https://itvision.altervista.org/why.linux.is.not.ready.for.t...

super tangential but am I the only one who has an undying love for the Tahoma font?

I haven't tried it but to me Void seems closer to that ideal, I think it's inspired by BSDs too.

> descent epub reader

I found Sumatra PDF to be great, at least at rendering / reading comfort.

Years ago DragonFlyBSD seemed by far the coolest, anybody know how it's doing these days?

Reminded me of this Stallman quote "People sometimes ask me if it is a sin in the Church of Emacs to use vi. Using a free version of vi is not a sin; it is a penance". (I use (Neo)Vi(m) BTW)

there is no way we will let the Internet Archive die, absolutely no way

Yes, I know, but I do think the theory is eventually, it would be cheapest and capable for permanent storage, well, storage is cheap already, the matter is more that the host is reliable enough, so it has to be decentralized.

Anywhere + get the Internet Archive to index it?

IPFS could be a contender, though I don't know where it stands now, but it's the ambition, at least.

true but at a heavy cost

Magnesium will lower your blood pressure, just take magnesium. The crazy thing is the diuretics that are prescribed to lower blood pressure cause magnesium deficiency.

They can have value to an invidiual, not everything can or has to be science, and remember this is about an area that lacks any science, not even recognized by doctors.

I can't, I was making a general statement. There are several large communities around this, that have collectively assembled knowledge about things that sometimes work.

No need to summon your favorite boogeymen.

I do see value, but the Claude app is just a webview with a keyboard shortcut, I don't even think it has voice dictation, I uninstalled it immediately.

That takes time, interest from the medical community, and expensive studies. People with a chronic and unrecognized condition don't have that luxury.

But actually, yes, some of them have, maybe not for this particular condition, but one can make reasonable inferences that some are worth trying. And anecdotes have value too.

We definitely do not live in that ideal word where this is often enough true. Just take a look at the zerocarb/carnivore community and, just as a random example, IBD and Chron's remission, or keto and type 2 diabetes, etc.

Oh I agree, but this is definitely not it, I don't understand why Anthropic released this, other than squatting the same keyboard shortcut the ChatGPT app uses, with no ability to change it :P.

You don't have to pay anyone anything, just inform yourself and maybe buy some cheap vitamins, change/improve your diet, and some other free or near-free practices.

I don't get with people jump in that health care can only be had through a third party.

That's quite an exaggeration. Why do you think the therapies should incur such a risk? Of course, it's on you to make sensible choices, but there are very large communities around long COVID out there, and the crowd makes a good enough job of sorting out what's legitimate and safe and what's not.

Again, I'm assuming we are talking about people in a state of abandonment by the medical establishment, some unable to function at all. I can't understand the risk calculation here.

I just used it as an umbrella term. That you chose to associate it with "woo" exactly illustrate my point about reflexive dismissal.

I'm talking about things like high-dose vitamins, some medicinal plants, various therapies like cold exposure, etc. Nothing unscientific or mystical about them, just that, as with other chronic ailments, doctors are not trained or knowledgeable on, for the most part.