mrblah

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by mrblah 1y ago
i did a good deal of searching after i noticed my improvement, but only finding anecdotes, not a lot of real research specifically for tinnitus and b1/benfotiamine. the cynic in me thinks the research around an un-patentable nutritiona
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by mrblah 1y ago
the older i get, and more in tune with my body i become, the more i'm thinking everything is connected to metabolism... it is, after all, the primary thing life does as it relates to energy. the b vitamins, and specifically b1 is a pre
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by mrblah 1y ago
this is anecdotal and not medical advice, but i reduced my tinnitus symptoms by ~90% by taking therapeutic doses (1200-1800mg/day) of benfotiamine (fat soluble form of vitamin b1) over the course of a month and a half. i was taking it
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by mrblah 3y ago
Went down the rabbit hole and found the case of Danish Bear Boy, he was reportedly taught to speak but he claimed to have no memory of his time living with the bears. Fascinating stuff https://books.google.com/books?id=k2MRH
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by mrblah 3y ago
i just had the uncomfortable thought that it's possible a disease could kill off everyone older than 1, sterilizing the species to language at some scale. for the few that survive, their world would be feral.
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by mrblah 3y ago
i've always assumed that language was required to give your brain the abstractions needed to reference things in the past compared to your current perception (aka now), like an index. if you think about your earliest memories, they alm
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by mrblah 3y ago
When I moved to a comcast area around 2014, I brought my own modem and they wouldn't let me connect over the phone without an "internet installation kit". I didn't need an install tech to come out since the place was alr
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by mrblah 3y ago
As a complete novice, I had a similar revelation naively trying to derive one of Maxwell's mind-blowing insights connecting light to magnetism. It was well accepted that if you just divided the electric constant by the magnetic constan
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by mrblah 3y ago
I'm putting this info here in case it helps anyone. I am not a doctor and not giving medical advice, just sharing my personal story. I haven't thought about this stuff in over 10 years, but there seems to be a lot of evidence now
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by mrblah 3y ago
1000% agree. I shudder to think what I would have done at the time if the non-standard treatment cost tens of thousands of dollars out of pocket because insurance wouldn't cover it. Through insurance coverages we're kinda locked i
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by mrblah 3y ago
My completely naive and unqualified opinion on why antibiotic therapy worked in my case is that some percentage of sarcoidosis and possibly other autoimmune disease like RA is caused by 'internal acne' of some tissues causing runa
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by mrblah 3y ago
In a way, the entire differential diagnosis process and treatment planning is already based on data. Your doctor and insurance companies don't think you're special. Autoimmune problems are so varied, everything from testing to bio
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by mrblah 3y ago
It was over 10 years ago, iirc there were more case studies on skin vs pulmonary, but a quick search found this one https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18458989/ another search term would be the broader class of antibiotic
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by mrblah 3y ago
More anecdotes, I was diagnosed with debilitating pulmonary sarcoidosis several years back and after 8 months of steroids and pain killers wrecking my stomach I found some research on the 'immuno-modulating' effects of some broad
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by mrblah 7y ago
I love restaurant ramen, but I haven't found anything approaching its quality to make at home. I'd love to just buy some fresh/frozen noodle nests like they have in the picture. Are there any good brands of packaged ramen noo
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by mrblah 8y ago
My understanding is that Mono is being billed as a client framework (Monogame, Xamarin, Unity, Blazor) while Core is more for the server/systems target. To add to the confusion, ".Net Standard" is a library compilation target
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by mrblah 8y ago
this looks great. seems like there's many c# scripting game engines but from what i'm reading the entire engine was written in c#?
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by mrblah 9y ago
how does this compare to tpl dataflow on performance? is a go channel kinda like c# bufferblock? are channels thread safe for multiple producers and multiple consumers writing to and taking from the same queue? i like the code sample.. very
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by mrblah 10y ago
i'd love to see some work done in oss router firmware like tomato / dd-wrt to enable simple home automation tasks. not everyone needs a cloud assistant or has the chops to hack a web server onto their router.
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by mrblah 11y ago
i kinda figured the gui stuff would be impractical, but what i was more interested in was a low friction way to play with midi / audio buffers. i haven't worked with c / c++ since college (too busy paying the bills in a manag
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by mrblah 11y ago
i used tracktion many years ago and remember reading about the underlying juce framework, but i was dissuaded by the lack of bindings to other languages. i know real-time audio is inherently low-level, but are there any plans to expose the