towerful

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[–] towerful@programming.dev 4 points 4 hours ago

America can't do 2 things at once?
I mean, they aren't even doing 2 things. They're saying "yeh go for it", and then America can turn it's full attention on itself.

[–] towerful@programming.dev 18 points 4 hours ago

And it's fine to continue to operate in the US.
But if it doesn't abide by EU laws then it can't operate in the EU.

America doesn't set the worlds laws

[–] towerful@programming.dev 1 points 4 hours ago

Trump saying "your country needs you" and every proud boy - or whatever the fuck - gets a massive hard-on for playing out the roll that the constitution says they are there to prevent

[–] towerful@programming.dev 5 points 3 days ago

I've been developing some stuff with esp32 and w5500.
Super easy

[–] towerful@programming.dev 23 points 3 days ago (12 children)

I'd vote for the EU in a heartbeat.
I'd be fine with the euro, actually going full metric.

[–] towerful@programming.dev 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

My first GP phonecall to get an in-person appointment resulted in a tiny piece of paper with suicide/help hotlines, and an ADHD form.
I was worried about ADHD and Bipolar. I wasn't myself. At all. It got pretty bad.

After an in person appointment and me failing to fill in my form (edit: or not filling it in correctly, I guess?), a referral to a psychiatrist wasn't justified and I heard no more.

I eventually seeked private healthcare for this.
And proper private healthcare, not that fucking "better health" or whatever that YouTube ad is. From actual doctors from an actual clinic.
After a 1 hour consultation and £300, I felt listened to.
The psychiatrist identified both ADHD and Bipolar traits, but said they were not significant enough compared to the depression. Treat the depression first, then circle back to the other possible issues.

6 months on SNRIs, and I can't believe the difference.
I don't feel like I'm struggling with memory loss. The traits I thought could be ADHD (hyperfocus sessions and yet easily distracted - exclusively) became manageable. The every day tasks suddenly were accomplishable. I haven't tracked my mood very closely, but I'm either on a 2 month hypomania streak or this is actually just what I'm normally like and I can't remember what feeling normal actually is. So maybe any bipolar I do have isn't impacting my life so much.

It took 6 months between the GP disappointment and seeking private care for it.
It's the best fucking £300 I've ever spent.
The reason I got there, as opposed to accepting the GPs diagnosis, was a colleague talked about their experience. They talked about their depression, a failed visit to a GP, seeking a 2nd opinion, getting meds, and turning their life around.
They said "don't stop until you feel heard. Don't stop until you agree with the doctor".

[–] towerful@programming.dev 2 points 4 days ago

Don't stop until you get help.
I'm lucky to have a colleague who identified I was depressed, and had gone through a similar scenario.
Don't stop until you feel you've been heard, until you've been listened to, until you agree with the doctor.
Don't fucking stop

[–] towerful@programming.dev 2 points 4 days ago

This would be the correct response when you met them.
Which shows you have the right idea.

Instead of this comment, which is victim blaming.
You are presenting yourself as the same as all the other characters in the comic.

The correct response would be "none of the other characters told them to get help, or tried to help them".

[–] towerful@programming.dev 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Yeh, mental health issues are just health issues.
It took me a while to realise that. A broken brain (whether Alzheimer's, chronic depression or whatever) is just like a broken leg (or broken arm, or chronic back pain or whatever).

You don't ask someone with a broken leg or chronic back pain to help you move house.
I guess it's easier to tell when someone has a physical injury, which probably removes some of the stigma around talking about it.

[–] towerful@programming.dev 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

That's were the real AI job losses will be.
A chat bot agent to deal with most of managers concerns, and a dashboard of tickets for those the agent can't reply to. The last remaining CEo sits Infront of their dashboard and views tickets, get background and relevant info, and makes a decision based on what's presented.

Seriously, imagine 1 person having the responsibility, being well compensated, and has literally everything presented in front of them like some homer-simpson-working-from-home type thing.
So many VP and CEO salaries could be saved, and let people get back to actually doing useful work.

I'd hate to be the AI "prompt engineer" that spends their day typing "you are a CEO of a fortune 500 company..." type system prompt, tho

[–] towerful@programming.dev 1 points 4 days ago

I've used proxmox with VMs running Debian for Docker Compose stacks.
Most "get started quickly" tutorials are docker based, and building into a compose stack with dependencies is easy enough.
Then a VM per stack (depending on isolation, duplication/redundancy and all that).

I've recently started playing with k8s, and Talos Linux is amazing.
I went from no-idea to k8s-yaml-hell faster than I could imagine. No need to configure kubernetes.

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