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qazwse_on Migraine is more than a headache – a rethink offers hope

I always feel a bit weird when reading migraine threads on the internet, because mine seem so much milder, but it's still debilitating. I remember first noticing the migraines in grade when I was 16, but it took me years before realizing they were migraines. I thought that most people had pain like I did, and just powered through with some Advil/Tylenol.

My migraines follow a very regular schedule. I wake up and just know that I will have a migraine. It's like a nagging thought. Worse after days of poor/little sleep, or days where the temperature changes dramatically, or if there is a big storm. At around 14:00 the pain grows in intensity, I feel nauseous and uncoordinated, very sensitive to light. Lying in a dark room and listening to a podcast/YouTube video is the best way to get through this period, I can get to the edge of sleep and it makes it easier. At around 20:00 the pain has usually mostly subsided, and by 22:00 I'm pain free but exhausted.

I tried a few prescription medications after talking with a doctor, but they didn't have much of an effect, so I just accepted that once every 1/2 weeks I would have to deal with it. Whenever I would read about migraines online, I would feel relieved, because mine seemed so much more mild. No aura, the pain is usually gone within a day, and if I needed to be out and about I could manage, even though it was painful.

About 5 years ago an ex-partner offered me a Bufferin (Aspirin mix), and right away it helped with the symptoms. Read into it and saw a study that suggested some people respond well to high-doses of aspirin and caffeine for migraine relief. It worked exceptionally well for me. 9/10 migraines knocked out immediately, with the rest being substantially reduced in length and intensity. I get maybe 1 migraine a year now that is truly bad.

Recently talked to a new doctor who prescribed me propanolol (he was afraid about the high dose of aspirin on my stomach), and it's been just as good.

I just feel fortunate to have easy access to migraine relief, and I hope that others are able to find something that works for them as well.

qazwse_on A slave narrative resurfaces after nearly 170 years

What about the article is flamebait?

qazwse_on Children Need Neighborhoods Where They Can Walk and Bike

> The people who by their own actions and choices ruined America's inner cities have never been held accountable.

Who are these people?

qazwse_on WhatsApp forces Pegasus spyware maker to share its secret code

I think a similar situation you can look into is the sanctions on Carrie Lam. While they are sanctions instead of a lawsuit, they did result in her losing access to all banking facilities in HK and China regardless of the fact they probably didn't think she didn't anything wrong. I think for most countries, keeping their banks working trumps almost all other considerations.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/28/hong-kong-carr...

qazwse_on Students ate less meat for 3 years after hearing talk on environmental impacts

Why do you believe that the anti-meat lobby has more sway in society than the meat lobby?

qazwse_on Strong static typing, a hill I'm willing to die on

I haven't used it, but I know that Coalton adds static typing to Common Lisp, might be something you're interested in.

https://github.com/coalton-lang/coalton

qazwse_on Wizards of the Coast Releases SRD Under Creative Commons License (CC-BY-4.0)

I think that there was a sense that WotC was going to do something special for Magic's 30th anniversary - something for the community at large. Instead, they released a mediocre, $1000 product.

qazwse_on Investors conclude that Tesla is a carmaker, not a tech firm

>how long would it take for any other car maker to ship steam games and have 60 fps gaming on the car.

I'm still young, but hearing about this kind of feature makes me feel like a luddite. I just don't get it. Is it so passengers can play while you're driving, or just to play while the car is charging/you're waiting somewhere?

qazwse_on THC and CBD improve wound healing, may be valuable as skin rejuvenators, study

How can cannabis possibly end your life?

qazwse_on Why Racket? Why Lisp? (2014)

This is the case for me as well. I was learning Common Lisp for fun, and I loved it, but macros never clicked for me. I could understand how they're powerful, but I never developed a sense for when using a macro would make things easier. Probably just not enough time with the language.

qazwse_on Amazon's Global Quest to Crush Unions

On Wednesday, the networking platform released its annual Top Companies list identifying the 50 best places in the U.S. for professionals to grow their careers. Amazon ranked No. 1 on the list, followed by Alphabet (Google’s parent company) and Wells Fargo.

From the LinkedIn article:

LinkedIn Top Companies is a ranking of the 50 companies that are investing in their talent and helping people build careers that will set them up for long-term success.

Our 2022 LinkedIn Top Companies list is the 6th annual ranking of the 50 best workplaces to grow your career, all based on unique LinkedIn data. These are the companies that are offering stability in our ever-changing world of work — the ones that are not only attracting workers, but retaining them.

And this survey has nothing to do with quality of environment. This list, and the accompanying article, are completely meaningless.

qazwse_on Cannabis legalization decreases stock market value of major pharmaceutical firms

Just take a look at Canadian legal market. The grey market always outperforms it and many have begun shunning the expensive legal weed.

This is not true, the opposite is happening. Illegal market share continues to decline, with 63% of people reporting buying from legal outfits in 2021, versus 43% in 2019.

https://www.ccsa.ca/sites/default/files/2022-06/CCSA-Cannabi...

qazwse_on 'Too many employees, but few work': Pichai, Zuckerberg sound the alarm

Yeah, they're probably working some gruelling 996 schedule, I guess we'll all need to go back to accepting 12 hours a day, 6 days a week to compete.

https://www.ft.com/content/174ed2e2-f88e-4759-9a7f-133629aab...

qazwse_on Four Tet wins royalty battle over streaming music

> After the advent of iTunes and Spotify, labels often argued that downloads and streams should be counted as sales.

I'm guessing this is still the case for many artists. How can they argue this at all? Who is the sale to? I doubt the record labels would say that I purchased a song after listening to it on a streaming service.

qazwse_on We Won't Raise Our Kids in Suburbia

They aren't basing it off of Scandinavia at all, it's the Netherlands, and they don't have a sovereign wealth fund at all. As far as I'm aware, that's only Norway, and I don't think Norway is really looked to as a model for city design or bike infrastructure, that tends to be Denmark.

And for those cities, no bike lanes won't solve all of their problems, but I think you're ignoring how the post-war car-focused development ended up contributing or reinforcing issues these cities face.

To look at other countries and ignore the benefits of their city design is fucking stupid. Ignoring happiness, we can see better health, lower emissions (and the Netherlands, for all their hype, do have higher emissions than their neighbours), fewer dangers for everyone using the roads, better mobility for poor people: why are any of these things not desirable?

qazwse_on m.u.g.e.n. 2D Fighting Game Engine

Ha, an RPG Maker forum was the first online community I really became a part of, I want to say I was 10ish? I never really made anything of note, but it introduced me to programming, web & graphic design, and introduced me to people from all over the world.

I still remember my very first introduction to programming was setting a variable to flag if a chest had been opened or not.

qazwse_on ‘This game is so realistic it feels just like working overtime’

I used to feel this way too, but I found sudoku varients a lot more enjoyable. If you look up the YouTube channel "Cracking the Cryptic" they have a lot of different ones.

qazwse_on Belgium approves four-day week

I was feeling grumpy this morning, but this comment made me laugh and brought a smile to my face. Thank you.

qazwse_on Do not leave XPS laptop in any sleep/hibernate/standby mode when placed in a bag

I had the exact same experience. Nothing like being woken up at 2 am because Windows decided now is a good time to update. It's one of the major reasons I decided to switch to desktop Linux permanently.

qazwse_on Human-monkey chimera embryos created in lab

I don't feel morally panicked by this, unless the goal is to have "human-like" animals to experiment on.

However, saying anything that advances science should be done is a crazy take. I do not believe that people should be tortured, that people should be given drugs against their will, or even be forced to take part in experiments.

qazwse_on NES.css – NES-Style CSS Framework

I don't know what it is, but the change in cursor shape is really off-putting to me. Almost to the point of feeling motion sick. I've never experienced something like this before.

qazwse_on Psilocybin and migraine: First of its kind trial reports promising results

Yeah I’ve heard about that, but I haven’t been able to find it in Canada. I’ve tried a combination aspirin + caffeine pill, but it didn’t seem to work as well as coffee.

qazwse_on Psilocybin and migraine: First of its kind trial reports promising results

I've had migraines for 10 years. I would guess about 1 per week/fortnight on average, lasting for 8ish hours. Never drank coffee until this year, when I started drinking it along with a high dose of aspirin (~1000mg) when I felt a migraine coming on. Almost a complete cure for me, much better than the medicine my doctor prescribed for me. So, for anyone else reading, like everything with migraines, your mileage may vary.

qazwse_on macOS unable to open any non-Apple application

Had this happen to me after installing a secondary SSD. Windows was deactivated, and wouldn't reactivate. I ended up having to use the Windows Restore tool before I could activate again. Having to reinstall all of your programs is never fun.

qazwse_on Is every game of Slay the Spire winnable?

One thing you may want to try is sticking to a certain class for a while. It'll give you a better feel for how all of their cards work together, and you won't "forget" about certain aspects of the class. I found that I hit a wall around Ascension 8-10 before I started trying this.

qazwse_on Opposition to Sidewalk Labs in Toronto

> To given an example - Toronto doesn't even have a single Michelin starred restaurant. Not one. Ever. Chicago has about 20. Seoul has about 20. Not that Chicago and Seoul are 'better overall' - but they have enough identity, character, soul, character, productivity (i.e. money) to do notable things.

For anyone curious, this is because Michelin doesn't publish a restaurant guide for Canada. No restaurant in Canada has a Michelin star.

qazwse_on U.S. users are leaving Facebook by the millions, Edison Research says

I think it's number 2. I don't particularly want to see what my random stuff my friends are liking or commenting on. I know Instagram provides this too, but it's separate from the main feed.

qazwse_on Forget privacy: you're terrible at targeting anyway

Same for me. It may be because Instagram lends itself to "life style" follows?

In my case, I'm interested in climbing, and because brands actually post interesting content, I'll follow them. Do this over a few categories of interests and it may result in Instagram having a better understanding of my interests/things I'll care about.

qazwse_on Google Takes Down Artstation Android App for Explicit Content

A brief reading of Wikipedia states that the ancient Egyptians and Greeks didn't have much against nudity. Minimal clothing was worn in Egypt. And the Greeks even said that other countries disliked their nakedness: "generally in countries which are subject to the barbarians, the custom is held to be dishonourable; lovers of youths share the evil repute in which philosophy and naked sports are held, because they are inimical to tyranny;"

Edit: Reading further, it's saying that public topless-ness was common in Japan until the American occupation after WWII, so there's a more recent example as well.

qazwse_on Elementary OS – Fast, open, privacy-respecting replacement for Windows and macOS

Can you explain what you mean? From what I'm seeing there isn't any skeuomorphism in Elementary.