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I did my first hour of therapy this week and while I couldn't say anything unusual happened, I'm still in shock.
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Trying to diagnose somebody over the Internet is problematic even when the symptoms being described are already being successfully treated. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19699146/ -- I'll summarize it for you: when OSA appears along with narcolepsy, CPAP doesn't solve the narcolepsy and often interferes with the diagnosis of narcolepsy.
Sorry I am not understanding the conclusion from your post, other than CPAP is ineffective for OSA. When did I or anyone else diagnose OP? The antidepressants are a completely different class of drugs that affect brain chemistry, so that was all I was commenting on. The OP didn’t go to a psychiatrist to get assessed for depression, yet their primary care provider put them on antidepressants as part of a positive diag…
This can be aided with a multitude of drugs, all of which affect the brains prefrontal cortex which also happens to be the part of the brain where ADHD, BPD, and anxiety/depression stem from. This can mean you may have any one of those conditions or just select symptoms in addition to narcolepsy.
I cannot answer about the Prozac specifically but I can say Modafanil may exacerbate problems the patient was unaware of or would rather avoid at a cost of trying other drugs. Likely OP did receive consultation on many drug options with potentially preexisting depression being a factor in choosing Prozac.
> I'm posting it here since HN rejects it with "that comment is too long. My god just thinking that you typed all this in a text box and were one accidental mouse click/backspace away from losing it all is making me shudder. That final link really resonated with me. thank you so much for sharing.
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I've heard Robolox is a nice place to work and every other gaming company is a little better than it was in the past because they have to be.
That’s partially due to that fact that Roblox is a platform and is not a gaming company. It’s a different business model and culture that isn’t subject to the vagaries of the games industry. (And yes, it’s a great place to work!)
But I see what you are saying. The model is very different from a typical game studio.
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That’s partially due to that fact that Roblox is a platform and is not a gaming company. It’s a different business model and culture that isn’t subject to the vagaries of the games industry. (And yes, it’s a great place to work!)
They are kind of both right? Like Steam and Epic. Roblox is a game. It is also a platform. But I see what you are saying. The model is very different from a typical game studio.
Valve and Epic both develop big titles in-house. Whereas Roblox’s experiences are developed by entirely separate entities.
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My whole childhood in the 80s was writing video games at home. It's all I wanted to do. I was really fucking good at it. First job out of school - writing video games professionally. It sucked. Really sucked. This was back in the mid-90s when the profession was in a really bad place. I got out within 2 years and never went back :( I heard the industry was much better now, though? This is the game I worked on: https:/…
I hope, as with the original article author, that you find a way to rediscover your childhood passion in a form that works for you today. It's not hard to understand what happened to our generation as teenage geeky culture turned into a multi-billion global business in less than a decade. A ton of brilliant programmers got left behind and left out. Not just because there's only room for a few John Carmacks or Tim Swe…
That game had a 3D engine I wrote from scratch in two weeks (the game suddenly changed from 2D to 3D overnight), and it had a multi-channel audio engine I wrote in C++ that was way over the top for the game's need and I shaved a whole yak there.
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Sorry I am not understanding the conclusion from your post, other than CPAP is ineffective for OSA. When did I or anyone else diagnose OP? The antidepressants are a completely different class of drugs that affect brain chemistry, so that was all I was commenting on. The OP didn’t go to a psychiatrist to get assessed for depression, yet their primary care provider put them on antidepressants as part of a positive diag…
I have narcolepsy so I may provide some clarity. CPAP is useless for narcolepsy as narcolepsy is not breathing issue. Narcolepsy is a neural condition in which the body does not properly gain energy during sleep resulting in daytime sleepiness. This can be aided with a multitude of drugs, all of which affect the brains prefrontal cortex which also happens to be the part of the brain where ADHD, BPD, and anxiety/depre…
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Why wouldn't the drug approved for treating narcolepsy help with narcolepsy? The answer is yes, it helps, but I'm super confused why you asked.
Because it shouldn't be debilitating if it can be medicated ? So that's the part I'm curious about.
> I'm posting it here since HN rejects it with "that comment is too long. My god just thinking that you typed all this in a text box and were one accidental mouse click/backspace away from losing it all is making me shudder. That final link really resonated with me. thank you so much for sharing.
Does this not persist when you navigate around? I've only ever seen the page contents here -- including text input values -- change if I explicitly reload. I haven't looked in any detail, but based on the behavior it seems to generally be getting cached in the browser? (Though it does seem to be an HN thing specifically, and yes, I would absolutely dread this if I were typing a draft anywhere else)
Coincidentally, even I am thinking of making a switch from security to ML. I have just started my security career, but I already feel dissatisfied with not building stuff (and instead writing reports / doing analysis). I used to have an aversion to ML due to the hype, but when I dove a bit deeper in practice, I really liked it. Have now done several deeplearning.ai courses and building some stuff on my own. Looking i…
The courses and the math is the "fun part". Job will involve a lot of data cleaning and pipeline building. Not that it is not interesting (I personally find the infra building more interesting than building and tweaking models) but just fyi. Pretty much every sexy job has the 5% which is sexy and the other 95% which is grunt work.
With most security roles you only get to look at what someone else made. If you're lucky you find something interesting, but that feedback loop is slow.