Ultimately, what drives human creativity? I'd say it's at least partially rooted in emotion and desire. Desire to live more comfortably; fear of failure or death; desire for power/influence, etc... AI is void of these things, and thus I believe we will never truly reach AGI.

While I use functors, applicatives and monads all the time in Haskell, I have no idea what half of these symbols mean. Are these specific to category theory?

They were made up by the author, but actually kind of make sense

It's, like, an ideographic alphabet

https://muratkasimov.art/Ya/Operators explains a bit

The problem is, it explains in a language for people that know category theory, rather than people that merely use functors, applicatives and monads in Haskell

Indeed we could say that those programming interfaces don't need a lot of category theory to understand. For example, in Java a functor would be called Mappable (and actually it seems there is such a thing defined in some libs)

Still not as good as full fat ublock origin.

This is why I start with something very simple. If I detect the candidate is getting paralyzed with nerves, I'll reassure them and give little hints to help bring them out of it. After successfully completing a simple exercise, they usually feel more confident and relaxed. Only then will I give them a more challenging problem, with the caveat that I'm mostly interested in seeing how they might approach the problem and what things they can tell me about it. If they solve it, great. If they don't, did they show an ability to reason about the problem well, or identify key aspects of the problem that make it challenging? Can they communicate their thoughts as they think about it?

Walking is quite special in this regard, because it doesn't seem to result in the same compensatory eating that more intense exercise does.

Zed has been nice, but I really miss the fuzzy search (files and grep) with live preview - something like telescope in neovim. The search results in zed feel super clunky to navigate through.

I really like One Dark Pro, but you have to install it from the additional themes link.

You can easily configure jk for escape. I don't know about importing .vimrc

Can you explain how?

From the documentation at https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/blob/main/docs/src/vim...

  {
    "context": "Editor && vim_mode == insert",
    "bindings": {
      "j k": "vim::NormalBefore"
    }
  }

So exercise, eating healthy, fasting, brushing/flossing teeth, consistent sleep schedule, daily sun exposure, good relationships, and stress management all depend on a health insurance plan?

Well, it doesn't have to "depend" on the health insurance plans. But there are definitely ones that reward you in some way for doing some/all of these. Mine literally gives me cash back for doing an annual physical.

You certainly need to "pay" for those yourself, insurance or not (I guess that's probably your point). Going for a run doesn't go on any billing schedule or contribute to GDP, it's all self-funded from your own personal resources of time and energy.

We pay either way. Pay to stay healthy or pay to stop being sick.

You only get so many chances to be sick before you can't come back from one, or it alters your life so severely you'd wish you were dead anyways.

I'll opt for paying to stay healthy.

Sam Vimes 'Boots' Theory of Socio-Economic Unfairness

>The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.

>Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.

>But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that’d still be keeping his feet dry in ten years’ time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.

What the heck does the price of boots have to do with any of this? All footwear eventually wears out, and if you're talking about athletic shoes the more expensive ones are often less durable (they can improve performance a little).

Sheesh, it's an analogy. If you can spend afford to spend a little more money now (on preventative care) it can help being ruined later.

Fpr example, paying for a diabetic's insulin/blood sugar testing vs. amputating a limb, with the bonus of a working individual now likely ending up on disability

Interestingly, you prevent diabetes by abstaining from buying/eating food. Fasting is an amazing thing for the body, and it's completely free.

That's awesome, let's get the message out to the 2 million people in the US with Type 1 diabetes straightaway!

That's a bad analogy and poor example. Preventing type-2 diabetes (the vast majority of cases) is literally free.

You're really missing the point. Anyone can afford the most effective types of prevention.

This assertion is extremely privileged and I heartily disagree with it

Even if we're just going to say "diet and exercise" it is a privilege to not live in a food desert and have sidewalks. If we are to mention the free yearly physical it's a privilege to have a doctor nearby and be able to get the time off work

So no, I don't think I am the one missing the point

I would assert that nearly anyone can find a place to walk, or climb stairs, even if it's while they eat or work. Healthy food may be harder to come by for some, either because of expense or lack of availability. But again, fasting is a great protection against so many modern eating related problems, like type 2 diabetes and heart disease. The point is that nearly everyone can improve their preventative standing, even the less fortunate.

It baffles me that an offhand example not applying 100% of the time is used to dismiss the broader point as invalid and/or ridiculous. Though I now notice that even the original point with shoes was treated the same way: "in this single pedantic example with running shoes the situation doesn't hold, therefore I reject the entire idea as invalid"

No one is saying "all medical issues are more expensive if you're poor" or "it's impossible to be healthier if you're poor." All of that is fantastic, but it in no way disproves the catch-22 that it is often more expensive to be poor, in many ways, including medicine. Particularly in the US with its clusterfuck confusopoly of copayments, coinsurance, deductibles, and so on, so the mere act of going to any doctor is a gamble

What a bizarre way of looking at the basic maintenance necessary to keep your body working.

Not wrong tho. If there were no costs then surely everyone would do it.

I absolutely love beef. A good ribeye steak, or some smoked brisket are two of my favorite foods. I was intrigued by the claims these meat alternative companies were making, so naturally I tried them all. It's not surprising to me that they are struggling. I could barely swallow their products. I think it was a mistake to compare these to one of the greatest foods on the planet. It set the expectation was too high.

everybody mostly discusses real vs. imitation/vegan, yet i think it has nothing to do with the current BYND situation.

"on an operating basis Beyond Meat lost 45 cents from every dollar of sales."

that is a culprit. Bad management. How else can your plant based product at comparable to meat prices be a loss instead of great profit. Even pure avocados are cheaper than meat. What is better and pricier than avocados do you put into your product? Then it should taste much better than avocados and meat. Yet there is no avocados, it is more like low quality cat/dog food:

"Key components include pea protein, rice protein, and lentil protein, alongside avocado oil, refined coconut oil, and canola oil. Other notable additions include methylcellulose, potato starch, and apple extract. "

That stuff at their prices should be super-profitable.

When Impossible was new and only available in burger format at a small number of partner restaurants, I ventured out to SF to try two of them. I concluded that it can make for a genuinely convincing substitute, but the key is preparing it with a sleight of hand to misdirect from the noticeable imitation texture and flavor. Those early burgers were made with thin patties, with flavorful burger sauces and toppings.

As Impossible expanded beyond their launch partners, they lost their control over the consumer experience. I think many restaurants now serve wretched Impossible Burgers because they just substitute a beef patty and don't try to accommodate the differences.

If you are savoring it as part of a taste test, it will never fool you; the first impression isn't the takeaway. If beef is not the focal point of the dish, as in their Impossible Mapo Tofu recipe (https://impossiblefoods.com/recipes/impossible-mapo-tofu) or a chili or something, it can slot in pretty well. They are nowhere near substitutes for ribeye steak or smoked brisket.

They work well enough as a replacement in a fast food burger or in a dish where the meat itself isn't really the star player. Using their ground meat alternatives in a hamburger helper is totally fine.

We're not at the point where high quality meat can be replaced, but that doesn't mean the product is worthless.

> one of the greatest foods on the planet

Given the amount of animal suffering and environmental destruction involved in beef, this great taste shouldn't be taken so lightly. Everyone should make some effort to reduce its consumption.