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by jnovek 4y ago
I had to take oxycodone + NSAIDs every 6 hours when I had my stone, but I had complications that required a stent and I did not react well to it. In fact, on both medications I was still in so much pain that it was barely manageable. I
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by jnovek 4y ago
They’re not completely useless, but I agree that we overprescribe them. I had a kidney stone with complications that required three procedures to take care of. The only thing that would touch that pain was opioids. It was a miserable exper
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by jnovek 4y ago
After 3D printing for years I started teaching myself how to use FreeCAD. It’s not the most newbie-friendly software but being able to design your own parts is incredibly powerful. I design and print parts for the most mundane tasks. These
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Keystep 32 is also excellent and even smaller, and also has CV/Gate as well as velocity and (!!) aftertouch. I don’t like the touchpad mod wheel, though.
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by jnovek 4y ago
I don’t think we’re past — or even approaching — some sort of threshold where we’ve overdone compassion in America. In fact, studies have shown that the more compassion shown to fat people, the more likely they are to seek help [1]. I deal
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by jnovek 4y ago
I think the intended message of these campaigns isn’t that high BMI is considered healthy; rather, it’s that making people feel bad for having high BMI is doing them no favors in the journey to solve a very difficult problem. They are camp
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Just because other countries may have it worse doesn't mean that we're doing well. Look at our prison demographics -- black men are over-represented by a factor of two.
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…why would identity politics lead to this series of events? Because it somehow restricts speech? China has very restricted speech compared to America and Chinese researchers manage to publish just fine.
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by jnovek 4y ago
I’ve seen the observation that psychedelics evoke a sense of spirituality in people. I wonder if this is how people cope with that feeling of spirituality if they don’t participate in any organized religion?
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I know my posts on Hacker News are like a broken record, but have you considered talk therapy (if it’s available to you)? “Rut” and “alcohol” are two words that set off depression alarms. Medication and therapy — or if you’re opposed to me
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by jnovek 4y ago
I’m pretty sure Vice is the mainstream media. It’s worth billions of dollars, smaller but comparable to CNN.
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I want this story to continue, and for each of the five twenties that you spend, some increasingly elaborate and unlikely good thing happens.
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by jnovek 4y ago
I’m a lazy sysadim at home, here’s what I do. I run proxmox on my server at home and provision with VM images, like we did in the ancient times. I take regular backups of any extra storage I attach. I can restore any individual box in an h
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by jnovek 4y ago
Yes, this is what I though kortex meant. Thank you for clarifying.
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I reread and I think I pulled the trigger a bit early on that one. I advocate for myself and I recognize that I can premature to the defense at times. :-) I’m sorry!
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Are you an able bodied person? Because when someone says people in America take “too many pills” it sounds like a very able bodied mindset. I take 8 daily prescription medications to cope with chronic pain and chronic mental health issues.
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I’m sorry for this entire experience that you’ve had. It sounds like a waking nightmare. I’m curious, did any doctor bring up therapy? I have major depressive disorder and I take antidepressants to help manage it. There was a landmark stu
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by jnovek 4y ago
“…diagnostic errors cause 40,000-80,000 deaths in the US alone…” If it’s as high as 80,000 per year, that would be about the same as U.S. automobile and gun-related deaths combined.
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This is because women are under-diagnosed for most mental health disorders except for Bipolar and BPD, for which they are over-diagnosed. They build communities because their doctors aren’t helping them.
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Sure, that’s the other side of that coin I was talking about. :-) Personally, I suspect that people who incorrectly self-diagnose are desperate and grasping at straws. They misdiagnose themselves because proper diagnostics are really hard
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by jnovek 4y ago
For the Otherkin stuff, did you mean Tumblr? I’ve often seen TikTok described as the new Tumblr.
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> Basically, are they "well-adjusted"? This is a radically behaviorist interpretation. A common criticism of the diagnostics for ADHD (and Autism, for that matter) is that it ignores the person’s internal experience. I was form
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by jnovek 4y ago
As an adult who struggles with ADHD that can be severely impairing, I’ve learned quite a few tricks from TikTok’s ADHD advocates. It’s definitely a coin with two sides. Edit: I’ve also learned to accept things about me that I can’t change.
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Of course software needs iteration, but what was wrong with paying for occasional upgrades rather than the continuous trickle of a subscription? I loved this model, it clearly linked revenue earned by new versions to the value provided by t
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I’d say the opposite in my experience when I’ve been a hiring manager. I prefer candidates who show that they understand their fundamentals, their primary domain and can show that they grow and adapt easily. The current hot technology is ep
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This is good advice, but depression can make these things hard to accomplish. I’ve experienced this before — falling into a rut, becoming depressed and having extraordinary difficulty getting back up. It’s like a motivation off-switch. Tal
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A PsyD can assess your focus level using a few diagnostics and if you don’t have other problems that better explain your focus deficit (e.g. PTSD or depression) you will be diagnosed with ADHD. Talk to your doctor about it. If you can get
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by jnovek 4y ago
Do you shoot? I do a bit of target shooting here and there. I think it’s reasonable to claim that firearm marketing has increasingly pushed “bigger” and “more” over the last decade. It’s also made a fashion (“tacticool”) out of firearm ow
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by jnovek 4y ago
I’ve been using generative models as an art form in and of themselves since the mid/late 2010s. I like generating mundane things that bump right up along the edge of the uncanny valley and finding categories of images that challenge t
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My heart sank when I saw the pricing model. I’ve been creating generative art since 2016 and I’ve been anxiously waiting for my invite. I wont be able to afford to generate the volume of images it takes to get good ones at this price point

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