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by cowpewter 8y ago
My mom was an ICU nurse for over 20 years, and yeah, the burnout is real. My mom always said that ICU is made up of a very small number of surgery recovery patients (who quickly get moved to a different section once they're past the cr
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by cowpewter 8y ago
True, I don't disagree. Keto is just the easiest way I've found to eat at a caloric deficit without feeling deprived, hangry, or succumbing to cravings and eating half a cake in one sitting. Once you get past the first couple week
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by cowpewter 8y ago
I eat reasonable portions of meat, not excessively large ones. Most of your calories on a ketogenic diet come from fat, not protein, both dietary fat and fat your body burns off if you're also losing weight at the same time. I would al
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by cowpewter 8y ago
This diet sounds miserable. You'd be hungry all the time. I would also much rather eat low-carb (and I do, I am a T2 diabetic that eats a ketogenic diet). Which sounds more sustainable? Drinking 800 calories of milk and juice every day
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by cowpewter 8y ago
Type 1 diabetics may be at risk for ketoacidosis if they screw up their insulin, but T2 diabetics are not at any risk from just a low-carb diet. The problem is having high blood sugar and high ketones simultaneously, not just having high ke
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by cowpewter 8y ago
Hmm, something is not right with our setup then, because I have absolutely been blocked from playing games my wife has bought on her account on our PS4.
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by cowpewter 8y ago
If you have multiple people in a household, each with their own Live/PSN/whatever account, you can buy one physical disc and it unlocks the game for everyone in the household. If you buy the digital version, it's locked to on
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by cowpewter 8y ago
There's always the Universal Unitarians.
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by cowpewter 8y ago
I worked in a building like this. Over the year I worked in that office, my asthma got gradually worse and worse. I went from using my rescue inhaler maybe once every couple months (for minor cough/discomfort), to using it multiple tim
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by cowpewter 8y ago
Yeah, I eat keto, but I don't push it on people or think it makes me better than anyone. I'm a T2 diabetic, and it's simply the best way for me to eat to prevent losing my feet or winding up on dialysis someday. It's not
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by cowpewter 8y ago
Also ADHD-PI, and yeah, hyperfocus is great for coding, but you have to be working on something "interesting enough" to trigger it. Not all the work you will do at work will be interesting, so without treatment you swing wildly be
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by cowpewter 8y ago
I have depression, but it's currently fairly well controlled with medication. This ennui is not all the time, but occasional, and usually only for a period of a few hours. Depression is a different feeling to me. Depression is more fee
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by cowpewter 8y ago
I feel like I experience two types of boredom. Regular boredom, which can foster creativity through daydreaming and finding new projects to work on, and what I usually call ennui, which is the type of boredom where I'm quite bored, but
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by cowpewter 8y ago
For me it was my grandfather, but yes, I also got into programming at least partially due to nurture, not nature. Just teach kids to code, boy or girl. Not all of them will like it, not all of them will be good at it. But I think a lot more
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by cowpewter 8y ago
What app are you using? I've read that meditation is essential for treating ADHD, and would love to try it too.
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by cowpewter 8y ago
Yes, that sounds like ADHD. I was only very recently diagnosed. After my diagnosis, I read the book "You Mean I'm Not Lazy, Stupid or Crazy?" and it explains how ADHD is a problem both of over- and under-stimulation (recommen
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by cowpewter 8y ago
If you have really serious procrastination issues, not only in your work, but in your life in general, if you lose your keys or phone a lot, have trouble keeping up with bills, forget appointments, if you're late to things constantly,
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by cowpewter 8y ago
Yep, just diagnosed a week ago at age 38. If you did well enough in school, and have the inattentive-type ADHD, it's really easy for it to get missed in childhood. If you were smart enough to coast through school despite your procrasti
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by cowpewter 8y ago
Mine wasn't exactly the same, but yes! I think the first program I ever wrote was in LOGO for the TRS-80. I wound up playing more with its built-in BASIC console than my LOGO cartridge though.
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by cowpewter 8y ago
Yep, my glucose monitor is ReliOn, one of Walmart's brands. The test strips are cheap and the monitor works well.
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by cowpewter 8y ago
Ahahaha, I didn't realize it would come out that way. Rest assured the diabetes is genetic, and not from the consumption of delicious Japanese candy.
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by cowpewter 8y ago
I loved your service! I'd still be subscribed if I hadn't gotten diabetes and had to cut all candy out of my life.
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by cowpewter 8y ago
Possibly. All I know is that the head of the church swore they'd do it debt-free via donations and they're sticking to that.
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by cowpewter 8y ago
They swear it will be finished this year, which they've said before, but there is actually construction currently ongoing at the site, which is a good sign, I suppose. I live north of Orlando, so I have to drive by it anytime I head th
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by cowpewter 8y ago
If you want a "fun" story about an unfinished commercial building, just google "I-4 eyesore". Down in Orlando (actually Altamonte, but if you're not from Central Fla, it's Orlando), there's a building a lo
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by cowpewter 8y ago
Yes, I bought it, and since the iOS 11 update, it no longer works, which is really disappointing.
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by cowpewter 8y ago
I'm also working a three-day week with a paycut, but for health reasons. I have a chronic pain condition. My normal schedule is M-W-F, but if I have a bad pain day I can switch around and work a Tues or Thurs instead. It's cut my
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by cowpewter 8y ago
What's finally helped me fall asleep pretty consistently is listening to hypnosis videos with a pair of those sleep headphones (flat padded speakers embedded in a soft headband). I used to listen to podcasts, and it helped to have some
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by cowpewter 8y ago
We actually kinda already have the first, in the form of the Dance Central games for the Kinect. You dance, the software detects which of your limbs aren't moving the right way, and it display visual feedback (highlighting the limb in
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by cowpewter 8y ago
I've never thought about it that way, but as a mixed-race white/asian, I wonder if including that information rather than just letting them assume "white" from my name actually hurt me rather than helped me when I applie

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