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New comment by larrywright in "Vitamin D and Omega-3 have a larger effect on depression than antidepressants"

larrywright — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 16:17:06 +0000

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.

New comment by larrywright in "Vitamin D and Omega-3 have a larger effect on depression than antidepressants"

larrywright — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 16:11:31 +0000

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.

New comment by larrywright in "Vitamin D and Omega-3 have a larger effect on depression than antidepressants"

larrywright — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 16:07:21 +0000

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.

New comment by larrywright in "Slouching Towards Bethlehem – Joan Didion (1967)"

larrywright — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 14:27:27 +0000

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

New comment by larrywright in "ADHD drug treatment and risk of negative events and outcomes"

larrywright — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 16:44:31 +0000

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.

New comment by larrywright in "Microsoft Office migration from Source Depot to Git"

larrywright — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 13:31:36 +0000

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.

New comment by larrywright in "Apple Notes Will Gain Markdown Export at WWDC, and, I Have Thoughts"

larrywright — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 22:47:27 +0000

MS Word is not aiming to support Markdown.

New comment by larrywright in "Apple Notes Will Gain Markdown Export at WWDC, and, I Have Thoughts"

larrywright — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 22:46:20 +0000

That's exactly it.

New comment by larrywright in "Apple Notes Will Gain Markdown Export at WWDC, and, I Have Thoughts"

larrywright — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 17:30:14 +0000

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.

New comment by larrywright in "Mozilla to shut down Pocket on July 8"

larrywright — Thu, 22 May 2025 17:51:22 +0000

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.

New comment by larrywright in "Mac app launches slowed by malware scan (2024)"

larrywright — Thu, 01 May 2025 17:38:19 +0000

I wonder if this is why Fusion 360 is so slow to start. It's by far the slowest app on my relatively modern M1 MacBook Pro.

New comment by larrywright in "The Untold Mystery Upending Egon Schiele's Legacy"

larrywright — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 13:33:48 +0000

I’d never heard of Schiele until yesterday when I was reading about an actor on a show I was watching. I’m not really an art buff but his work is quite interesting (if a bit disturbing at times).

New comment by larrywright in "Trump's Tariffs Wipe Out over $6T on Wall Street in Epic Two-Day Rout"

larrywright — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 02:15:13 +0000

He bankrupted a casino. I’m not sure how you even manage to do that.

New comment by larrywright in "How Servo Motors Work"

larrywright — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 01:45:34 +0000

He's fantastic. I still suck at drywall work, but I suck way less after watching a bunch of his videos.

New comment by larrywright in "Help Identify the Photographer Who Captured Many Images of 1960s San Francisco"

larrywright — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 12:47:30 +0000

> The collection’s 75 undeveloped rolls of Kodachrome film likely amount to about 2,700 photos

I wonder how they’re planning on developing that film, since the chemicals to develop Kodachrome haven’t been available since 2010.

New comment by larrywright in "BMW Group Product Catalog–Historic Models"

larrywright — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 14:32:44 +0000

I am in no way a “car guy” but I’ve always thought that the early to mid 1980s BMWs were beautiful. I don’t have the kind of budget (or garage space) to own a car that isn’t a daily driver, but if I did I think I’d look for a 1980s 3 or 5 series.

New comment by larrywright in "CDC terminates flu vaccine promotion campaign"

larrywright — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 13:24:22 +0000

My perception is that many on the right bought into conspiracies about Covid and the Covid vaccines. That led to them consuming more general antivax content, as well as an overall greater distrust of science and medicine in general, who were seen as the enemy.

New comment by larrywright in "DOGE has 'god mode' access to government data"

larrywright — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 14:17:36 +0000

I think what you mean to say is that you like what doge has claimed to have found so far. Unfortunately it doesn’t hold up to even the slightest scrutiny.

New comment by larrywright in "NSF starts vetting all grants to comply with executive orders"

larrywright — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 14:28:25 +0000

The word evil is a bit overused, but in the case of Stephen Miller it fits like a glove.

I’ve said since the beginning that that saving grace (if there is one) of Trump’s first term was that he was disorganized, and he surrounded himself with people who kept him in check to some degree. People who were willing to tell him that he couldn’t do certain things (prime example: White House legal counsel kept Trump from doing the crazy things that people like Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell suggested after he lost the 2020 election).

He’s not going to make that mistake this time, and he’s putting people in power who will do what he wants without question. That’s the scary part of the next four years.

New comment by larrywright in "They don't make them like that any more: the Yamaha DX7 keyboard"

larrywright — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 14:47:27 +0000

Same, but in my case it was the Roland D-50.