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New comment by SmellTheGlove in "Multiple Sclerosis"

SmellTheGlove — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 22:06:34 +0000

Which drug are they on, if you're okay sharing?

New comment by SmellTheGlove in "Multiple Sclerosis"

SmellTheGlove — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 17:34:10 +0000

I'm really glad to hear its going well for you! Her neurologist told us the achievable goal was to stop progression entirely. We were both surprised to hear that. She chose Tysabri because her brother has also had great results with it, and also because it mostly acts to keep your immune system outside the blood-brain barrier, rather than to target specific types of immune cells. Our understanding is you can basically stay on this until it stops being effective or you test positive for JCV exposure, at which point it's on to Ocrevus most likely.

New comment by SmellTheGlove in "Multiple Sclerosis"

SmellTheGlove — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 17:31:39 +0000

If I can ask, what are you on now, and what happened that took you off of Tysabri? Feel free to not answer - it may be a bit sensitive to ask. I'm just trying to understand this all better since this is very new for my family.

New comment by SmellTheGlove in "Multiple Sclerosis"

SmellTheGlove — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 15:28:47 +0000

The latter is my understanding.

New comment by SmellTheGlove in "Multiple Sclerosis"

SmellTheGlove — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 15:27:57 +0000

It would be amazing if this type of treatment worked out. MS in particular seems to be a race between technology and your immune system. You hope the next cutting edge treatment is ready by the time the current state of the art stops working for you.

New comment by SmellTheGlove in "Multiple Sclerosis"

SmellTheGlove — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 15:24:19 +0000

Yeah AHSCT is no joke. I mentioned in another comment my wife has MS - diagnosed last year in her mid 40s with thankfully no severe impairment. They discussed AHSCT with us but didn’t recommend it unless another disease modifying treatment didn’t work. Thankfully, Tysabri seems to be working well for her.

My mom passed from leukemia years ago. Or rather, from an infection as she was starting HSCT. I’m sure it’s safer than it was 30 years ago, but being without an immune system for a period of time really is still a last resort.

New comment by SmellTheGlove in "Multiple Sclerosis"

SmellTheGlove — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 15:17:21 +0000

Glad to hear Ocrecus is working for you! My wife was diagnosed last year and has been on Tysabri for about 6 months. So far, so good. Having to go in for a monthly infusion isn’t something she loves, but zero side effects as of yet. Thankfully it’s a 1 hour infusion not 8.

New comment by SmellTheGlove in "Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry"

SmellTheGlove — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 15:05:09 +0000

Isn’t a dolly a flat 4 wheeled platform thingy? A hand truck is the two wheeled thing that tilts back.

New comment by SmellTheGlove in "Stripe Projects: Provision and manage services from the CLI"

SmellTheGlove — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 22:28:00 +0000

It doesn't appear that they own it. More like they're adding infrastructure scaffolding to your project and giving you a CLI to deploy it. From what I can see, nothing breaks if you delete the CLI, and you're fine to deploy it to the same providers on your own or migrate it.

New comment by SmellTheGlove in "Stripe Projects: Provision and manage services from the CLI"

SmellTheGlove — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 22:24:17 +0000

You know who is completely missing the boat on solving this problem? Heroku. I guess I should say Salesforce. It's pretty amazing though - they used to be the default "deploy this shit I just wrote" choice.

I'm excited to try Stripe Projects, but the thing I'm kind of dreading is the need for multiple providers. If I want auth, a database, and a front end, I'm using Supabase and Vercel, for instance. I don't blame Stripe for this - that's just where we're at right now, with everyone unbundling platforms over the past decade. I think platforms will be back in style soon enough.

New comment by SmellTheGlove in "Stripe Projects: Provision and manage services from the CLI"

SmellTheGlove — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 22:16:53 +0000

I'm going to guess that signing up for stripe is a prerequisite to use this. I will try it out later and confirm. I think I just got access.

EDIT: The linked docs from their blog post point to a login step after you install it. So yeah, signing up for stripe is a prereq.

New comment by SmellTheGlove in "Intel Announces Arc Pro B70 and Arc Pro B65 GPUs"

SmellTheGlove — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 20:11:05 +0000

Consumer CPUs don't have enough PCIE lanes to do that. Even if they had physical x16 slots, at most two of them would be x16.

What's cheap to you? You can find Epyc 7002/7003 boards on ebay in the $400 range and those will do it. That's probably the best deal for 4x PCIE 4.0 x16 and DDR4. Probably $500 range with a CPU. That's in the ballpark of a mid to high end consumer setup these days.

New comment by SmellTheGlove in "Intel Announces Arc Pro B70 and Arc Pro B65 GPUs"

SmellTheGlove — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 19:54:23 +0000

That's a pretty good deal these days.

New comment by SmellTheGlove in "Intel Announces Arc Pro B70 and Arc Pro B65 GPUs"

SmellTheGlove — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 19:50:16 +0000

Any idea if it'll be possible to mix these with nvidia cards? Adding 32GB to a single 3090 setup would be pretty nice.

New comment by SmellTheGlove in "Starlink Mini as a failover"

SmellTheGlove — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 04:32:24 +0000

People like unifi because it’s relatively easy to configure. My Netgear R7000 from at least a decade ago running Fresh Tomato firmware will also happily let you have 1-4 WAN interfaces depending on how many of its Ethernet ports you want to dedicate. It won’t let you use all 5 ports for WAN though!

New comment by SmellTheGlove in "Microsoft gave FBI set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops"

SmellTheGlove — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 23:50:28 +0000

This was a helpful answer. It really is hard to make a choice if you've left the ecosystem for a while. My mac as well as windows+WSL have been good enough for a while, but this post got me curious. And mind you, I'm not completely out of touch with _linux_ - its running two servers in my basement. I've installed slackware from floppies and compiled gentoo. But it's never been the year of the linux desktop for me.

I ended up booting Mint with Cinnamon. I like it. It's pretty intuitive coming from macos/windows, and I'm in the terminal half the time anyway. Installing the nvidia driver was easy, then steam does a good job installing whatever compatibility layers it needs. I'll do CUDA next and try it for a month or so.

New comment by SmellTheGlove in "Microsoft gave FBI set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops"

SmellTheGlove — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 19:23:09 +0000

I’ll bite. What Linux distro currently has the nicest desktop experience? I work on a MacBook but my desktop is a windows PC that I use for gaming and personal projects. I hear Proton has made the former pretty good now, and the latter is mostly in WSL for me anyway. Maybe a good time to try.

What do you suggest? I’ll try it in a VM or live usb.

New comment by SmellTheGlove in "JetKVM – Control any computer remotely"

SmellTheGlove — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 19:41:47 +0000

I’ve been using the glinet comet kvm for my homelab and have no complaints. Their cloud is optional and I don’t use it. The built in tailscale client does what I need it to. I use it with their ATX power accessory to manage physical power on/off when needed.

Given that these things have bare metal access, keeping them off of the public internet seems wise no matter what though.

New comment by SmellTheGlove in "Advent of Code 2025: Number of puzzles reduce from 25 to 12 for the first time"

SmellTheGlove — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 00:08:11 +0000

I came here to say almost the same thing - except I don't think there's more space between the puzzles. From the post:

  Why did the number of days per event change? It takes a ton of my free time every year to run Advent of Code, and building the puzzles accounts for the majority of that time. After keeping a consistent schedule for ten years(!), I needed a change. The puzzles still start on December 1st so that the day numbers make sense (Day 1 = Dec 1), and puzzles come out every day (ending mid-December).

Honestly, I prefer this. I've never had time to finish AoC because as we get later into December, I'm crunched with wrapping up work things so that I can do more family things and prep for the holidays. I look forward to this every year, and every year, I can see that I stop around day 11 +/- 1 day (except for 2021 when I somehow got to day 17).

New comment by SmellTheGlove in "Advent of Code 2025: Number of puzzles reduce from 25 to 12 for the first time"

SmellTheGlove — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 00:05:00 +0000

I came here to say almost the same thing - except I don't think there's more space between the puzzles. From the post:

  Why did the number of days per event change? It takes a ton of my free time every year to run Advent of Code, and building the puzzles accounts for the majority of that time. After keeping a consistent schedule for ten years(!), I needed a change. The puzzles still start on December 1st so that the day numbers make sense (Day 1 = Dec 1), and puzzles come out every day (ending mid-December).