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milsebg commented on Ask HN: Battling Depression    · Posted by u/server_man3000
kbt22 · 3 months ago
Everyone needs to find his way.

For me, talking about my childhood to someone that was non-judgemental helped me far more than lifting weight. But that was for me. I'm glad you found your way.

milsebg · 3 months ago
Yes, sure, there is more than one way (maybe even as many ways as patients). My point was not about gym or not, it was about the idea that depression is something that is totally outside of one's own control.

Happy that you found your way, too.

milsebg commented on Ask HN: Battling Depression    · Posted by u/server_man3000
aristofun · 3 months ago
You are not depressed because you don’t care about your work.

You don’t care about your work because you’re depressed.

Same with everything else.

Your brain will show you opposite rationalizations if you’re really depressed.

This doesn’t mean you can’t influence it by changing external factors.

This means you need to take it seriously and find a good psychiatrist to help with it. Not random dudes on the internet who think their boredom is a depression and brag how they fight it with gym.

milsebg · 3 months ago
> You don’t care about your work because you’re depressed. > Same with everything else. > take it seriously and find a good psychiatrist to help with it.

So, you're seeing a depression as an external "illness" that can only be cured by pharmeceutical compounds?

I can only speak for myself, but to me that was dangerous advice. it removed accountability for my actions. the only thing that helped was getting into new actions. actively changing small things.

i was diagnosed with severe depression more than once in my life. things started to change for me only when I stopped believing this narrative.

a psychiatrist will give you pills, a psychologist will talk to you with a "playbook", both will try do bring some predefined indexes of clinical depression down. nothing of this is tailored to your personality.

because you mentioned it: gym does not change everything miraculously (neither do pills), but it taught me that my actions have significant effect. going through a perceived hamster wheel all the time, that realization was a big step forward to me. i did things that i did not want (like meeting people, applying for jobs, etc.). that helped, and it gets easier with each step.

ymmv

milsebg commented on Ask HN: Battling Depression    · Posted by u/server_man3000
milsebg · 3 months ago
purpose. survival mode lacks that.

i guess for most people this comes down to connection: social, romantic, whatever.

best you can do is leave the house, interact with people, (re)connect with friends and family. no shortcuts.

milsebg commented on Uv is the best thing to happen to the Python ecosystem in a decade   emily.space/posts/251023-... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
bashkiddie · 5 months ago
> (2) Are you not using official Python docker images?

Would you help me make it work?

  docker run -it --rm -v$(pwd):/venv --entrypoint python python:3.12-alpine -m venv /venv/remt-docker-venv
How do I source it?

  cd remt-docker-venv/
  source bin/activate
  python --version
  bash: python: command not found

milsebg · 5 months ago
Instead of "python --version", just use the "python" executable from within the venv. Sourcing is a concept for interactive shells.
milsebg commented on Nitro: Tiny but flexible init system and process supervisor   github.com/leahneukirchen... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
milsebg · 5 months ago
That's pretty cool and looks way less complex than s6.

Unlike s6, it does not seem to support dependencies, or did I miss something. How is it supposed to start services in the right order?

milsebg commented on I Miss Web 2.0    · Posted by u/geuis
faxmeyourcode · 5 months ago
It's a symptom of a regression of society as a whole. Twenty years ago things were different. Not just the vibes, but the net hope for humanity and short/medium/long term forecasts of the health of the united states were all much higher among the average joe.

The ship is sinking.

milsebg · 5 months ago
Isn't it just that we were pioneering web2 in a time (after the dotcom bubble) in which access to the internet became more ubiquitous?

Remember the beer app on the first iPhone. Playing with Sensors and graphics on a new device was just fun. Just like tinkering with the Raspberry has been.

Then, this got commercialized and optimized for money to the ground. To me, as sad it might be, "tech" and "web" has just become a mature market.

> Not just the vibes, but the net hope for humanity and short/medium/long term forecasts of the health of the united states were all much higher among the average joe

I'm European, so genuinely curious why that optimism faded away in the US

u/milsebg

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