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larrywright commented on Vitamin D and Omega-3 have a larger effect on depression than antidepressants blog.ncase.me/on-depressi... · Posted by u/mijailt

Esophagus4 · a month ago

Tangent… but for sweaty feet, try a ski boot dryer!

You can get them for $50… they dry out my shoes which makes them last a lot longer before they get so smelly I have to throw them away. Plus, who doesn’t like warm shoes in the morning?

That, and there are some creams called Sweat Block or whatever you can rub on your feet which reduce sweating. Those work as well.

larrywright · a month ago

Also try wearing merino wool socks. It seems counterintuitive to put wool on your sweaty feet, but they're quite comfortable and they help you avoid that "clammy feet" feeling when you are sweating in cotton socks. They also don't develop odor the way that cotton does.

larrywright commented on Vitamin D and Omega-3 have a larger effect on depression than antidepressants blog.ncase.me/on-depressi... · Posted by u/mijailt

mvcosta91 · a month ago

“God, I see what you’re doing for others, and I want that for me.”

I had a very similar experience, except it killed my libido, so I chose to endure the suffering of Winter rather than live with emotional numbness.

Still, I strongly recommend it for people flirting with the abyss. It was life-changing for me while I was raising an autistic 2yo during the pandemic.

larrywright · a month ago

Speaking from personal experience, people react to different SSRIs differently. I took a popular one that had significant side effects without a whole lot of benefit, and so I stopped it and didn't try anything else for 10 years. Then I spoke to a psychiatric nurse practitioner who suggested trying several others until we found something that worked for me. I had (incorrectly) assumed that if you had e.g. sexual side effects from one SSRI, that you'd have them for all. That is not the case.

larrywright commented on Vitamin D and Omega-3 have a larger effect on depression than antidepressants blog.ncase.me/on-depressi... · Posted by u/mijailt

darvid · a month ago

after being prescribed Mirtazapine, then Trazadone I realized I don't think I've had restful sleep as long as I can remember. I need a sleep study done probably but until that the quality of life from taking something that has virtually no negative side effects for me is insane.

meanwhile people are like "just take magnesium or melatonin lol"

larrywright · a month ago

Nobody should take this as medical advice, but from my own experience, nothing has made a bigger difference in my sleep quality than supplementing with magnesium glycinate. I didn't even start taking it for that purpose - I was taking it for something else and quickly noticed that it made the quality of my sleep significantly better. The only side effect from it is that sometimes I have strange dreams (not nightmares or anything, just odd).

Everyone should check with their doctor, but it's an inexpensive supplement and the effects (if any) show up pretty quickly, so IMO it's worth a shot.

larrywright commented on Slouching Towards Bethlehem – Joan Didion (1967) saturdayeveningpost.com/2... · Posted by u/jxmorris12

46493168 · 2 months ago

Fascinated that you found Magical Thinking a bore, it has come back to me in my grief and proved immensely valuable.

larrywright · 2 months ago

I also loved magical thinking. Even though I haven’t experienced anything close to losing a spouse, it was a wonderful read.

larrywright commented on ADHD drug treatment and risk of negative events and outcomes bmj.com/content/390/bmj-2... · Posted by u/bookofjoe

kstrauser · 7 months ago

That's interesting. I'm in the US and my doctor prescribed Adderall for me. While I'd obviously never argue that a drug can't be abused, for me personally, I can't imagine abusing Adderall more than, say, ibuprofen. It's not that it's unpleasant to take it, but that it has zero pleasant qualities, either, except that now I can pay attention to things that don't fascinate me. It doesn't feel good. It doesn't (seem to) change my mood. Maybe I feel a little more awake after I take it, but that's also the same time of day when I have my morning coffee, and I can't tell you which has more of an alertness effect on me.

It's a stimulant. I have no doubt that someone's found a way to abuse it. But for me, I can't for the life of me imagine why anyone would want to. Other drugs like coffee or beer are much more pleasant. If I realize I forgot to take my daily Adderall, oops! Guess I might not get as much work done today as I'd planned, but not to the point where I'd go back home to get it, and I certainly wouldn't feel a craving or desire to.

larrywright · 7 months ago

As I understand it, it's really only abusable by people who don't have ADHD. It's a stimulant, similar to cocaine in that way. In people with ADHD, it's calming.

larrywright commented on Microsoft Office migration from Source Depot to Git danielsada.tech/blog/carr... · Posted by u/dshacker

0points · 9 months ago

Having used vss in the 90s myself, it surprised me it wasn't even mentioned.

VSS (Visual SourceSafe) being Microsoft's own source versioning protocol, unlike Source Depot which was licensed from Perforce.

larrywright · 9 months ago

I used VSS in the 90s as well, it was a nightmare when working in a team. As I recall, Microsoft themselves did not use VSS internally, at least not for the majority of things.

larrywright commented on Apple Notes Will Gain Markdown Export at WWDC, and, I Have Thoughts daringfireball.net/linked... · Posted by u/robenkleene

diggan · 9 months ago

> I don’t want Notes to become a Markdown editor

> I’m just asking for it to handle a few more things.

How is what you're asking for not making Notes into a Markdown editor? Those are all features that come from Markdown, and the reason "most apps" already handle those, is because they're aiming to support Markdown to at least some extent.

larrywright · 9 months ago

MS Word is not aiming to support Markdown.

larrywright commented on Apple Notes Will Gain Markdown Export at WWDC, and, I Have Thoughts daringfireball.net/linked... · Posted by u/robenkleene

jeeyoungk · 9 months ago

I think the parent's suggesting that they should be "one way" shortcuts; i.e. "# Heading" auto-formatting as a heading is a shortcut, and it doesn't allow you to go back and modify the original markdown.

larrywright · 9 months ago

That's exactly it.

larrywright commented on Apple Notes Will Gain Markdown Export at WWDC, and, I Have Thoughts daringfireball.net/linked... · Posted by u/robenkleene

larrywright · 9 months ago

I don’t want Notes to become a Markdown editor. I think that would be confusing for the majority of users. What I would like is for it to understand Markdown syntax and just convert it to the right thing. If I type “# My Note”, it should convert that to note title format. If I type “## Heading” it should convert it to a heading format, and so on.

Most apps do this already, to some extent. If you start a line with a - or an *, the app will convert it to a proper indented list. Heck, even Microsoft’s apps do this. I’m just asking for it to handle a few more things.

larrywright commented on Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot support.mozilla.org/en-US... · Posted by u/phantomathkg

bobsmooth · 10 months ago

Downthemall might help with downloading all those links, depending on what they are.

larrywright · 10 months ago

I never used Pocket but was a long time user of Instapaper before moving to Readwise Reader. My experience has been that many links, other than the most recent ones, are dead.