My two computers are named ‘spaghetti’ and ‘potato’. Although I think broke the rules of the linked article because potato is named after its bulky case and relative weight compared to spaghetti.
I see Wordpress as a kitchen knife that is being sold to all ages - I did have more to say in reply to your question, but the more I think about it, the more I think that analogy speaks for itself
I don’t usually post here, especially on such personal topics, but feel I should. I’ve been on SSRIs and SNRIs for some time now (Pristiq, and now Zolof), and can definitely attest to the some of the changes described in the article. I clearly remember reading the documentation in full that came with both drugs before starting each, and the mentioned side effects were only mentioned in passing, along with possibly every other side effect imaginable, so it was very easy to dismiss - especially when you are in a place you know you need help out of. There was also no real warning of long term side effects from both doctors that have prescribed me.
I guess I don’t have any real point, other than if you are considering anti-depressants do more research than I did before taking what you’ve been prescribed - and if in doubt get answers from your doctor, and failing that find a better doctor (if you can).
When I was in my mid-20s my doctor wanted me to take blood pressure medication because when I went to her office in the morning I had blood pressure of 150/110. I told her I wanted to see what I could do on my own first.
I cut out salt and caffeine, increased potassium and exercised every day. I went back in two months and my blood pressure was 120/80. She took it four times because she didn't believe it. I think the primary thing was the caffeine - it just gives me a temporary but strong spike in blood pressure.
Years later, a doctor prescribed me Lexapro. I actually picked up the prescription. But I never took it. I started exercising every day, started mindful meditation, removed sugar from my diet, read the book Learned Optimism and did the CBT-like work in there. Ended up never taking the SSRI but haven't had anxiety in 7 years. (btw Learned Optimism was recommended to me on HN).
Some people definitely need medication - I worked with a guy in his early 20s that had cholesterol of 400+. I saw him eat oatmeal every day for breakfast and lunch and then saw his cholesterol go up to 420. I'm sure there are people that need SSRIs. But it does seem like doctors at least prescribed it to me when I didn't need it.
Probably eating the oatmeal that made his cholesterol get higher.
There are now tons of research coming out about how cereals (wheat and corn specially) are basically the culprit of a lot of diseases that in the past were blamed on "fat", and also that this past blame was partially due to corruption (for example coca-cola literally gave six digits money to Harvard scientists so they would lie and say sugar was safe and the culprit for people problems was meat).
- The biggest influence on blood cholesterol level is the mix of fats and carbohydrates in your diet—not the amount of cholesterol you eat from food.
- Although it remains important to limit the amount of cholesterol you eat, especially if you have diabetes, for most people dietary cholesterol is not as problematic as once believed.
This seems to be a thing for pretty much every food/nutritional category. I've decided for myself to just "ignore" the science since the definition of "healthy" seems to change so often. Instead I try to use common sense for picking my meals.
any nutrition advice that makes sweeping statements about entire macronutrients (protein/fat/carbohydrates) should be ignored and is mostly used to sell fad diets. "Carbohydrates" could be HFCS or leafy greens. "Fats" could be shortening or avocado. The nutrition of the individual food is much more important than the macronutrients.
There's a U-shaped curve for all cause mortality with cholesterol levels, just like anything else. Cholesterol is not bad, it's literally the building block of steroid hormones, vitamin D, etc.
Similarly, there's a good argument to be made that most people actually eat too little salt. If you compare most sodium guidelines to data of sodium intake versus all cause mortality, you're more at risk of death following the guidelines.
Lifestyle changes are the best treatment there is. Shame they can't make a pill out of it. Statistically most people fail to maintain lifestyle changes over the long term. Especially dietary changes.
Pharmacological treatments allow doctors to help those people.
I have never had a doctor recommend lifestyle treatments to me. They don't make any money on those. I have osteoarthritis in my hip and multiple doctors recommended an immediate hip replacement. I did a ton of research and ended up on the anti-inflammatory index diet in combination with changing exercises from running and golf that put high impacts on my hip to cycling which does not. All of my pain was gone in three months and has stayed gone for the last two years.
As a herbal observation, it seems like such a scam that medical pamphlets will list possible side-effects, but not frequencies.
Knowing that one person in one thousand saw some issue is very different from 20% of people. Especially as almost every medication I've ever seen advertised has a list two pages long of possible side effects.
How is a person supposed to make an informed judgment?
I don't know if it's the law here in France or just nice manufacturers, but I've seen side effects broken down by occurence rate ( 1 in 100,000: X, Y, Z; 1 in 1,000,000: A, B, C, etc.) multiple times.
In my case (Pristiq), it was a net positive. My libido decreased (but never desapeared) and I've never had erectile disfuncion so far. Totally worth it for me, with my specific metabolism.
Sertraline (Zoloft) often causes more sexual side effects in males than it does in females. I have seen this used at the max dose to control hypersexual behaviour in a patient with dementia.
I spent about 18 months on sertraline. Even on the 'therapeutic' dose that I started off with, it basically nuked my ability to perform. Could still get an erection easily enough, the frustration was being unable to do anything with it.
It wasn't that much better with fluoxetine, but with that I found that I could at least wait a few days to sort of build up the energy.
As with another poster here, I'm happy being open about this stuff too. The first hurdle is opening up about mental health, I think that already puts you on a good track to take the shame away from the sexual aspect.
I’ve been purchasing with namecheap for several years, and I swear it’s gone downhill recently. Things like you have mentioned, I’ve also recently had bugs during domain purchase that fail to secure the actual domain while charging my card (on multiple occasions) - then support not refunding the money back to the card and instead insisting namecheap credit is suffice. It also feels much more like godaddy (or similar) then they used to with all the up-selling they have in the checkout these days.
I had numerous spars with Namecheap CEO over the years and I continue to stand behind my words: 1) the site is extremely buggy and I been charged multiple times and had to dispute through payment processor since they didn't even believe me that I was charged twice. 2) they claim to be great for hackers, but there are stories over the years how easily bullied, they gave out all your info to even unlawful request from LE; surprisingly GoDaddy stands much tougher, but funny thing GoDaddy didn't advertise themselves as being hacker-friendly registrar. 3) their customer support is in south Europe. Since you can turn on auto-renew I am sure they store your credit card info on file. I read stories from someone using unique card number only with Namecheap and getting it used somewhere else, which they found impossible. It also hurts their "Made in the USA" image, since the owner bluntly said using European based customer support save him tons of money.
I’ve been running a 4 node rpi cluster at home for about a year and a half now. Originally it was purely for the fun and interest of standing-up a tangible (kubernetes) cluster (like others have said, VMs just aren’t the same thing...). Now I use it all the time to run things on my home network I don’t want to pollute my real computers with. e.g. IoT services like MQTT and a heap of one-off weekend experiments etc. I also use it as a kind of reverse proxy from the outside internet to whichever computer I need to hit internally - just deploy a new nginx pod and simple reverse proxy config, and traefik and some other microservices I have running will go ahead and create lets encrypt certs and create my dns records for me. Oh and I also have some arduino/hardware sensors hooked up to the GPIO pins on different nodes as well. Taint a node to say it has X sensor attached, and k8s runs the pods that need that sensor on the correct node... need to move things around? Just change the node taints then scale down/up the pods and everything is running again. Although that’s probably not a normal use case (I do a fair bit of electronics hacking in my spare time).
Yeh I agree with this. Licensing and possible legalities aside, I think it’s just the right thing to do.
The issue seems to be getting a bit of attention now (when I posted there was 9 thumbs up, now there is 173 and a PR on the readme), so hopefully the current maintainers (re)visit the issue and give him his slice of credit.
I actually not seen the issue opened 2 months ago :( I do not have many times on it and I read around half of tickets people opens, sadly this one did not :(
It's pretty clearcut: The GPL requires to keep copyright notices and author's names. They should re-add him and removing names from free software code without the consent of the original author is absolutely not okay.
We may argue that with licenses that allow this (CC0, Unlicense) it would be okay, but even there I'd say credit where credit is due.
