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New comment by qazwse_ in "Migraine is more than a headache – a rethink offers hope"

qazwse_ — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 16:25:49 +0000

I always feel a bit weird when reading migraine threads on the internet, because mine seem so much milder, but it's still debilitating. I remember first noticing the migraines in grade when I was 16, but it took me years before realizing they were migraines. I thought that most people had pain like I did, and just powered through with some Advil/Tylenol.

My migraines follow a very regular schedule. I wake up and just know that I will have a migraine. It's like a nagging thought. Worse after days of poor/little sleep, or days where the temperature changes dramatically, or if there is a big storm. At around 14:00 the pain grows in intensity, I feel nauseous and uncoordinated, very sensitive to light. Lying in a dark room and listening to a podcast/YouTube video is the best way to get through this period, I can get to the edge of sleep and it makes it easier. At around 20:00 the pain has usually mostly subsided, and by 22:00 I'm pain free but exhausted.

I tried a few prescription medications after talking with a doctor, but they didn't have much of an effect, so I just accepted that once every 1/2 weeks I would have to deal with it. Whenever I would read about migraines online, I would feel relieved, because mine seemed so much more mild. No aura, the pain is usually gone within a day, and if I needed to be out and about I could manage, even though it was painful.

About 5 years ago an ex-partner offered me a Bufferin (Aspirin mix), and right away it helped with the symptoms. Read into it and saw a study that suggested some people respond well to high-doses of aspirin and caffeine for migraine relief. It worked exceptionally well for me. 9/10 migraines knocked out immediately, with the rest being substantially reduced in length and intensity. I get maybe 1 migraine a year now that is truly bad.

Recently talked to a new doctor who prescribed me propanolol (he was afraid about the high dose of aspirin on my stomach), and it's been just as good.

I just feel fortunate to have easy access to migraine relief, and I hope that others are able to find something that works for them as well.

New comment by qazwse_ in "A slave narrative resurfaces after nearly 170 years"

qazwse_ — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 17:21:47 +0000

What about the article is flamebait?

Call the ant doctor: Amputation gives injured ants a leg up on infections

qazwse_ — Tue, 02 Jul 2024 15:29:38 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/07/call-the-ant-doctor-amputation-gives-injured-ants-a-leg-up-on-infections/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40857618

Points: 3

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New comment by qazwse_ in "Children Need Neighborhoods Where They Can Walk and Bike"

qazwse_ — Sat, 20 Apr 2024 12:00:07 +0000

> The people who by their own actions and choices ruined America's inner cities have never been held accountable.

Who are these people?

New comment by qazwse_ in "WhatsApp forces Pegasus spyware maker to share its secret code"

qazwse_ — Sat, 02 Mar 2024 05:44:45 +0000

I think a similar situation you can look into is the sanctions on Carrie Lam. While they are sanctions instead of a lawsuit, they did result in her losing access to all banking facilities in HK and China regardless of the fact they probably didn't think she didn't anything wrong. I think for most countries, keeping their banks working trumps almost all other considerations.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/28/hong-kong-carr...

New comment by qazwse_ in "Students ate less meat for 3 years after hearing talk on environmental impacts"

qazwse_ — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 16:19:01 +0000

Why do you believe that the anti-meat lobby has more sway in society than the meat lobby?

New comment by qazwse_ in "Strong static typing, a hill I'm willing to die on"

qazwse_ — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 14:03:53 +0000

I haven't used it, but I know that Coalton adds static typing to Common Lisp, might be something you're interested in.

https://github.com/coalton-lang/coalton

New comment by qazwse_ in "Wizards of the Coast Releases SRD Under Creative Commons License (CC-BY-4.0)"

qazwse_ — Fri, 27 Jan 2023 22:46:42 +0000

I think that there was a sense that WotC was going to do something special for Magic's 30th anniversary - something for the community at large. Instead, they released a mediocre, $1000 product.

New comment by qazwse_ in "Investors conclude that Tesla is a carmaker, not a tech firm"

qazwse_ — Thu, 05 Jan 2023 16:46:21 +0000

>how long would it take for any other car maker to ship steam games and have 60 fps gaming on the car.

I'm still young, but hearing about this kind of feature makes me feel like a luddite. I just don't get it. Is it so passengers can play while you're driving, or just to play while the car is charging/you're waiting somewhere?

New comment by qazwse_ in "THC and CBD improve wound healing, may be valuable as skin rejuvenators, study"

qazwse_ — Mon, 12 Dec 2022 16:56:03 +0000

How can cannabis possibly end your life?

New comment by qazwse_ in "Why Racket? Why Lisp? (2014)"

qazwse_ — Wed, 14 Sep 2022 18:11:01 +0000

This is the case for me as well. I was learning Common Lisp for fun, and I loved it, but macros never clicked for me. I could understand how they're powerful, but I never developed a sense for when using a macro would make things easier. Probably just not enough time with the language.

New comment by qazwse_ in "Amazon's Global Quest to Crush Unions"

qazwse_ — Sat, 03 Sep 2022 19:33:58 +0000

On Wednesday, the networking platform released its annual Top Companies list identifying the 50 best places in the U.S. for professionals to grow their careers. Amazon ranked No. 1 on the list, followed by Alphabet (Google’s parent company) and Wells Fargo.

From the LinkedIn article:

LinkedIn Top Companies is a ranking of the 50 companies that are investing in their talent and helping people build careers that will set them up for long-term success.

Our 2022 LinkedIn Top Companies list is the 6th annual ranking of the 50 best workplaces to grow your career, all based on unique LinkedIn data. These are the companies that are offering stability in our ever-changing world of work — the ones that are not only attracting workers, but retaining them.

And this survey has nothing to do with quality of environment. This list, and the accompanying article, are completely meaningless.

New comment by qazwse_ in "Cannabis legalization decreases stock market value of major pharmaceutical firms"

qazwse_ — Fri, 02 Sep 2022 17:30:36 +0000

Just take a look at Canadian legal market. The grey market always outperforms it and many have begun shunning the expensive legal weed.

This is not true, the opposite is happening. Illegal market share continues to decline, with 63% of people reporting buying from legal outfits in 2021, versus 43% in 2019.

https://www.ccsa.ca/sites/default/files/2022-06/CCSA-Cannabi...

New comment by qazwse_ in "'Too many employees, but few work': Pichai, Zuckerberg sound the alarm"

qazwse_ — Wed, 10 Aug 2022 21:58:50 +0000

Yeah, they're probably working some gruelling 996 schedule, I guess we'll all need to go back to accepting 12 hours a day, 6 days a week to compete.

https://www.ft.com/content/174ed2e2-f88e-4759-9a7f-133629aab...

New comment by qazwse_ in "Four Tet wins royalty battle over streaming music"

qazwse_ — Mon, 20 Jun 2022 19:44:21 +0000

> After the advent of iTunes and Spotify, labels often argued that downloads and streams should be counted as sales.

I'm guessing this is still the case for many artists. How can they argue this at all? Who is the sale to? I doubt the record labels would say that I purchased a song after listening to it on a streaming service.

New comment by qazwse_ in "We Won't Raise Our Kids in Suburbia"

qazwse_ — Tue, 07 Jun 2022 13:33:13 +0000

They aren't basing it off of Scandinavia at all, it's the Netherlands, and they don't have a sovereign wealth fund at all. As far as I'm aware, that's only Norway, and I don't think Norway is really looked to as a model for city design or bike infrastructure, that tends to be Denmark.

And for those cities, no bike lanes won't solve all of their problems, but I think you're ignoring how the post-war car-focused development ended up contributing or reinforcing issues these cities face.

To look at other countries and ignore the benefits of their city design is fucking stupid. Ignoring happiness, we can see better health, lower emissions (and the Netherlands, for all their hype, do have higher emissions than their neighbours), fewer dangers for everyone using the roads, better mobility for poor people: why are any of these things not desirable?

New comment by qazwse_ in "m.u.g.e.n. 2D Fighting Game Engine"

qazwse_ — Sun, 10 Apr 2022 02:53:10 +0000

Ha, an RPG Maker forum was the first online community I really became a part of, I want to say I was 10ish? I never really made anything of note, but it introduced me to programming, web & graphic design, and introduced me to people from all over the world.

I still remember my very first introduction to programming was setting a variable to flag if a chest had been opened or not.

New comment by qazwse_ in "‘This game is so realistic it feels just like working overtime’"

qazwse_ — Mon, 28 Mar 2022 18:08:43 +0000

I used to feel this way too, but I found sudoku varients a lot more enjoyable. If you look up the YouTube channel "Cracking the Cryptic" they have a lot of different ones.

New comment by qazwse_ in "Belgium approves four-day week"

qazwse_ — Tue, 15 Feb 2022 15:02:27 +0000

I was feeling grumpy this morning, but this comment made me laugh and brought a smile to my face. Thank you.

New comment by qazwse_ in "Do not leave XPS laptop in any sleep/hibernate/standby mode when placed in a bag"

qazwse_ — Fri, 24 Sep 2021 22:10:41 +0000

I had the exact same experience. Nothing like being woken up at 2 am because Windows decided now is a good time to update. It's one of the major reasons I decided to switch to desktop Linux permanently.