> False dichotomy. The recommendation is for people on SSRIs to also do therapy.
One problem with that is that SSRIs are much more accessible than therapy. In my country, they are fully covered by social security and procuring them is relatively easy, while therapy is too expensive for lots of people.
> If you read further in your [1] you'll see that the rate of side effects is not "in excess of 70%" but lower, and it depends on both the medication and the dose. Switching medications and changing doses is often sufficient to ameliorate some or all of these effects.
In my case, and according to studies I'm not the only one, the side effects can be persistent. Neither the doctors nor the medication's notice warned me of this. If I knew that when I was young, I would have made different choices.
SSRIs did help me, but it cost me a lot, and I still cry about it. Of course, there is no way to know if this is a better outcome for me than what would have happened if I managed to refuse to take them.
I've opened an issue about the reordered attribute values (+ another bug I found). Tab pane switching stopped being slow (I suppose my laptop was simply overloaded, and I'm too used to things being fast even when it is).
It's an interesting event, but this article is a bit misleading, and the title outright wrong : the object did not reach space in any meaningful way, and Robert Brownlee never said that it did. In fact, since meteors with a similar weight coming in at a third of the lower bound of the manhole's velocity can not reach the surface, we can assume that the manhole burned up in the atmosphere pretty quickly.
> As usual, the facts never can catch up with the legend, so I am occasionally credited with launching a "man-hole cover" into space, and I am also vilified for being so stupid as not to understand masses and aerodynamics, etc, etc, and border on being a criminal for making such a claim.
A first thing to test would be that your voltages are nominal, but the exact details depend on how many phases are coming from the transformer, how they are wired, and whether you are on a TT, TN-C-S or other kind of grounding system, which depends mostly on where you live. Also, you need to take your voltages both at low impedance (simulates a load) and at high impedance (negligible load, "classical" meters are generally high impedance).
Generally, you want to measure the voltage difference between live and neutral depending on the load. However, depending on the tools you have access to, taking this reading properly can be a bit tricky both because simple high-impendance multimeters can easily be tricked by ghost voltages caused by bad connections and inductions from other cables, and also because understanding what to measure requires knowing how is the electrical system wired.
If you know you are in a TT system with 240V between Live/Neutral, I can tell my procedure for inspecting neutrals. In a two-pole TN-C-S system with 120V between L1/Neutral and 240V between L1/L2, I suppose it would be similar, expect that we'd have to do more tests (both L1 and L2 to neutral, and I imagine also L1 to L2).
EDIT: a first simple check to do is to check, using any multimeter, if there is voltage drop in your office when the hairdryer is in use.
Type defaults are a nice addition, they were something I lacked a lot back when I was still writing Python code.
The new interpreter is nice, but I wish they had incorporated the display of variable values in the traceback (similarly to ipython's xmode attribute, or to traceback-with-variables), this is something I've always missed in Python.
I agree with Josef Bacik, the constant trashing of btrfs is getting really annoying and disrespectful to the filesystem developers, and it's sad to see how another filesystem developer refers to btrfs.
The write-hole issue did take a long time to fix, and yes it's annoying that the fix requires full RMW cycles, and yes it's frustrating to know that the design of btrfs means that there probably won't be a better solution, but it doesn't mean that "people cannot rely on it after 10 years". Some people do rely on it, it serves them well, if it was that unreliable it wouldn't be the default filesystem choice on a major distribution.
I've had a few cases data loss related to ZFS encryption, causing a total loss of a dataset and all of its ancestor snapshots. The key used by this dataset is simply missing from the keystore, and so it fails mounting with I/O error. We have no idea why or how could it happen, but the pool also had a lot of these "innocuous* bugs, while ZFS never reported a single error from the backing disks. This happened on two different full rebuilds (from scratch, using zpool-create and manual recreation of all datasets with rsync) of the same pool, but on the same hardware and with the same workload. I am 99.999% sure that this is caused by the native encryption code, probably compounded by sending very regular snapshots (not raw, though).
Weirdly, this only happened on a few datasets that were not used a lot, the datasets that have lots of IO have only had the innocuous errors (the ones that refer to deleted files).
I did try debugging some of this with a ZFS developer, but we were not able to recover the data, and digged deep enough to see that something was very wrong with these datasets (it was not just a bitflip somewhere, rather that dataset used a key from the keystore that was supposed to exist, but didn't.
With climate change and our general impact on environment worsening each year, our relationship with technology is starting to be like a big elephant in the room. Do people really think a sustainable and equitable society is possible while having microprocessors and telecommunication devices in beds ?
This kind of luxury will always be reserved to the wealthiest in society, and its availability dependent on the relentless exploitation of land and human beings.
I hope this call to action will come to some form of resolution, as I indeed feel quite uneasy with both the current state of the Nix project and with the involvement of contractors such as Anduril. I've lost good friends that died crossing borders to find a better life, and I'd prefer to stay away from projects involving the tracking of migrants by ML-trained drones running Haskell and NixOS. However, my current livelihood is built around Nix, so I cannot simply threaten to quit using and contributing to NixOS, and going back to Debian after the Nix experience would be quite frustrating.
I also have my own frustrations with some contributions to the Nix project, where my input and concerns were completely disregarded and ignored, in cases where I suspect that the interests of external companies (heavily invested in Nix) played a big part.
Well that's the thing, we really don't understand the long-term effects of SSRIs. PSSD[1] is a thing, reports of long-term anhedonia and/or emotional numbness after quitting SSRIs are widespread.
The parent poser never said anything about "evil big pharama mind control", however "pharma companies trying to make money disregarding long-term health of patients" is not a particularly narrow-minded view, anti-depressants are used to put people back to work disregarding their long-term health, and widespread over-prescription of SSRIs by physicians (not even psychiatrists), even to children, is a thing as well.
If 15 years ago, when I was 16, someone had told me that these meds would potentially make me lose the ability to feel pleasure, I probably would'nt haven taken them, but there was no such warning.
This seems a valid concern to me. I am on the edge of a city, on one side there are endless buildings, and on the other side it's a big open park with some farmland. It's still technically in the city, so there are no stray rats as the city euthanizes them frequently, and there are rats everywhere. My house is full of holes, and they have dozens of ways to come in. I see them frequently.
Of course, neighbors have started using more and more rat poison, so sometimes I do see some rats dead on the ground, rotting in the sun. And recently, I've started seeing dead raptors in the farmland close to us.
One problem with that is that SSRIs are much more accessible than therapy. In my country, they are fully covered by social security and procuring them is relatively easy, while therapy is too expensive for lots of people.
> If you read further in your [1] you'll see that the rate of side effects is not "in excess of 70%" but lower, and it depends on both the medication and the dose. Switching medications and changing doses is often sufficient to ameliorate some or all of these effects.
In my case, and according to studies I'm not the only one, the side effects can be persistent. Neither the doctors nor the medication's notice warned me of this. If I knew that when I was young, I would have made different choices.
SSRIs did help me, but it cost me a lot, and I still cry about it. Of course, there is no way to know if this is a better outcome for me than what would have happened if I managed to refuse to take them.