I would seriously consider visiting a Rolfer. There was a point where due to period of inactivity and stress, I began having issues which started in the neck and migrated to pain in the wrists also. After some adjustments and time totally fine now.
Readit Newsducktastic commented on Ask HN: Have you successfully treated forward head posture ("nerd neck")? · Posted by u/trashymctrash
A different perspective on medicine and parasitology & shots. Not a popular topic but I am undergoing my own parasite cleanse (not Ivermectin for the cleanse, at least) for four days now, and I've noticed a change in my sleeping pattern. I'm actually getting more sleep, less tossing and turning :)
Original story archived: https://archive.ph/KBkoK
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Parasites are hugely ignored in people and can cause all sorts of issues long term. Most people don't realize these parasites dump and circulate waste throughout the body that collects and stagnates etc.
ducktastic commented on Why do they want to get rid of software engineers? jrswab.com/blog/why-do-th... · Posted by u/abnercoimbre
I agree but I'd also note that a capital owner actually has a couple motivations to get rid of high paid labors.
1) Cost
2) Flexibility. If you can hire random laborers to do most of your tasks, you can quickly scale up whereas if you depend on highly skilled and trained workers, starting a new operation elsewhere is hard. Similar, you can shift activity around, are less impeded by the opinions of workers, etc. Significantly, this may allow you to "franchise" your operations in various ways.
From what I am seeing in the consulting space for enterprisey companies is that there is an extreme push to normalize /standardize all tools/platforms not even talking about AI tools to be able to replace tribal knowledge with cheaper workers. The narrative and in some cases reality of AI is just bringing the badhavior to the forefront
ducktastic commented on Blogpost: Postgres Work_mem Production Incident mydbanotebook.org/posts/w... · Posted by u/ducktastic
Thought this was an interesting oom killer postmortem
ducktastic commented on Revise age verification terms for MidnightBSD github.com/MidnightBSD/sr... · Posted by u/hpb42
Think of the children!!
spends time thinking of children having fun learning BSD
I wasn't under 18 when I started playing with *BSD/Nix systems on my own, but how tragic that kids who would be drawn to understanding these systems are essentially 'outlawed' from learning them. As another HNer pointed out in a related post, I think this stems from not understanding the delineation between an OS/App/Platform.
They really are unbearable: I use Duck Player primarily to view Youtube, connected via city wifi and every so often, I receive a message saying that youtube thinks I am a bot presumably because they are not getting ad revenue. Of course I have a workaround for this but annoying nonetheless.
ducktastic commented on Hisense TVs add unskippable startup ads before live TV guru3d.com/story/hisense-... · Posted by u/akyuu
fewer competitors every year...Sony gave up as well :/
It's ridiculous that going to a Target/Bestbuy/etc you cannot find any non-smart TVs generally. I have had several older models of non-smart tvs that suddenly stop working after a few years. It's disgusting
ducktastic commented on The Banality of Surveillance benn.substack.com/p/the-b... · Posted by u/limbicsystem
I'm in my 50s and when I was early 20s I crossed from US to Canada for a business meeting. "Why are you coming to Canada?" "To work." "Where's your work permit?" "Huh, I don't have one." That simple "wrong word" slip STILL gets me flagged and cordoned off into hours-long border diversions whenever I go to Canada.
Just imagine how it'll be now... for decades you'll be fending off some hidden receipts from an IG comment you made.
Had a similar experience: over a decade ago our firm opened an office in Canada and being scrappy and startup-like I had to cross into Canada with some networking equipment to help set up the new office. The amount of scrutiny was insane: thankfully it never stuck and I was eventually let on to do the work and return
ducktastic commented on Plasma Bigscreen – 10-foot interface for KDE plasma plasma-bigscreen.org... · Posted by u/PaulHoule
At the risk of whatever, I feel like there might be a "market" for something like the "OpenBox" version of this - or perhaps what I'm saying is even using something like Openbox to get the minimalist version of this thing.
Seems to me a 10-foot interface almost by definition doesn't need the complexity of a KDE; you need to launch apps from "big rectangles on the screen" instead of like a Start Menu(and probably configure those to be 10 foot friendly) -- and MAYBE a few widgets and that's it.
I've always wondered why that doesn't seem to exist, and now probably with vibe coding may just work on it myself.
I'm totally with you on this and a great idea. Always used flux/openbox whenever I could on my own workstations, and the idea that it could be used for a big screen device would be great.