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The Animal Is Tired

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Re: The Animal Is Tired

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Post by climb_stealth »

autarch wrote: post #33

Robin Hobb is one of my favorite authors. Her masterwork is a series of series (four trilogies and a quadrology) known as The Realm of the Elderlings. She published the first trilogy, which begins with Assassin's Apprentice, starting in 1995. I saw the books when they first came out and I assumed from the title and the cover that it would be a cheesy fantasy by the numbers, so I never bought it. But I kept hearing ab…

Aw man, I just started a comment saying how this sounds really promising and was going to ask about it. Turns out I have actually read them. I might have to read them all again. I would recommend them as well.

I'm a big fan of the Malazan series as well. I still think of the hair jacket when I come across someone with a smelly jacket and it never fails to crack me up.

My recommendation for epic fantasy that is a bit different and unexpected: The Dark Tower series by Stephen King. Some very powerful stories in there. The first book is pretty short so it is a good way to try it out. Though I think it hooks from the very start.

Re: The Animal Is Tired

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Post by newnamenewface »

kjsthree wrote: post #58
rubicon33 wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Everyone thinks they eat good food. Yes, probably including you. I am very aware of things like cooked spinach v.s. non cooked spinach. I pay close attention to what I eat, and make an effort not to fall into the traps of fad diets. I eat a whole foods based, well rounded diet, that avoids known "gotchas" like aforementioned raw spinach. Oxalate are found in many of other "healthy" foods. I'm also very lean, but st…

Wait, what’s this about raw spinach?

You want to steam most vegetables to make the cell walls break down (easier to digest and utilize nutrients).

Re: The Animal Is Tired

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Post by peanutz454 »

DougN7 wrote: post #29
rubicon33 wrote: post #2

70? My animal is only 33 and is very tired. Writing this as it lays in bed, 3 in the afternoon, because even a standard chair sounds more exhausting to it. It seems to have no motivation or energy to do much besides lay here. If I force it, it will get stuff done but at a huge cost. It will yearn the entire time to just lay back down. It's interest in things seems to be fading quickly. What desire it used to have to…

This actually sounds quite a bit like depression. Some inexpensive meds can make a huge difference. I know from experience.

When my partner took anti depressants they increased the need to sleep.

Re: The Animal Is Tired

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Post by jiofih »

maxqin1 wrote: post #53
enw wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What kind of good food do you eat?

The kind I've iterated on for years to maximize my body. I wish I had a good answer, but it's similar to exercise. The best food for you is the one that works for you. I also highly recommend no-food (don't try to twist this). Fasting for various periods is undeniably beneficial for men and women past menopause (younger women should carefully research preventing doing any harm). Rather than tell you exactly what I ea…

Cool. So what kinds of good food do you usually eat?

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Post by girvo »

peanutz454 wrote: post #63
DougN7 wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This actually sounds quite a bit like depression. Some inexpensive meds can make a huge difference. I know from experience.

When my partner took anti depressants they increased the need to sleep.

Mirtazapine will do that to a bit of an extreme. Escitalopram didn't, at least for me, in some ways it made it slightly more difficult to sleep. This is in my body, so everyone's mileage may vary. I found the massive drowsiness of mirtazapine so difficult to deal with that I ended up preferring the frustrating sexual side-effects that escitalopram has (and found it more effective for my depression anyway).

Lately, the buprenorphine injection I get once a month is all the antidepressant I need. Still has side-effects, but these are ones I'm very used to at least.

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Post by yamrzou »

Swizec wrote: post #32
rubicon33 wrote: post #2

70? My animal is only 33 and is very tired. Writing this as it lays in bed, 3 in the afternoon, because even a standard chair sounds more exhausting to it. It seems to have no motivation or energy to do much besides lay here. If I force it, it will get stuff done but at a huge cost. It will yearn the entire time to just lay back down. It's interest in things seems to be fading quickly. What desire it used to have to…

> My animal is only 33 and is very tired In life satisfaction surveys, your 30’s are the most miserable stressful part of life. Highest amount of responsibilities, lowest amount of consistent reward, and it keeps getting worse until your 40’s Apparently it gets better again in your late 40’s and early 50’s. By 60 you’re as happy as you were at 20. https://www.inc.com/jeff-haden/scientists-just-discovered-mi... (am 33…

Thanks, that's a bit relieving.

Re: The Animal Is Tired

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Post by Stratoscope »

clcaev wrote: post #24
edoceo wrote: post #4

Oh, and eyesight. Like, I had to up-scale the default font sizes on mobile and now all sites (this one especially) are harder to use. Use responsive design people! You'll need it someday!!

I just plead to my fellow developers to stay well under 80 columns... my largest monitor in a readable font can fit 77 characters wide.

Word wrap and proportional fonts are your friend.

Contrary to what many developers believe, coding in a proportional font can be quite practical and enjoyable. And it fits a lot more horizontal text on the screen for the same visual font size.

There are some exceptions, of course, such as code dealing with bit patterns or matrices where you want things to align vertically.

But for most of the code most of us read and write, that isn't an issue. As a specific example, Python code formatted with Black is equally readable in a monospaced or proportional font.

And then when a line is too long - whatever font you use - word wrap fixes it. Even if word wrapping looks a little sloppy sometimes, it sure beats having to scroll horizontally.

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Post by gpderetta »

autarch wrote: post #33

Robin Hobb is one of my favorite authors. Her masterwork is a series of series (four trilogies and a quadrology) known as The Realm of the Elderlings. She published the first trilogy, which begins with Assassin's Apprentice, starting in 1995. I saw the books when they first came out and I assumed from the title and the cover that it would be a cheesy fantasy by the numbers, so I never bought it. But I kept hearing ab…

Can't recommend her enough as well (Currently reading the last book of the third trilogy).

I didn't enjoy the first book too much, less epic scope than I was expecting and I don't like child protagonists very much.

But the writing was excellent and after a year hiatus and a streak of questionably written books (Malazan was one of them...), I picked her up again. Halfway through the second book I realized I was cheering to Kettricken charge to aid Fitz and I was hooked.

Since then each book has been better than the one before.

Re: The Animal Is Tired

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Post by superkuh »

The unfortunate truth is that the things you can't control that effect your lifespan far outnumber and swamp the things you can. I hope as a technological civilization we can eventually change that but it's not going to be done by eating better or not staying up working late.

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Post by monsieurbanana »

podgaj wrote: post #19
randomopining wrote: post #14

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6 miles isn’t that long lol. Exercise is good. Otherwise you get weak and shrivel up.

My grandfather lived in 98 never exercised in his life. I know it’s an anecdote, but it’s still data.

> I know it’s an anecdote, but it’s still data

That's useful if it's about a subject where there's no studies.

But this is whether exercise improves quality of life. There's no shortage of studies about it. Implying that a single anecdote is still data is the bad kind of technically true.

I would link to one of those studies, but there's too many of them and I admit I don't know what to choose.

https://scholar.google.com.sg/scholar?q=physical+activity+qu...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01674...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00917...

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