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Re: We’re all just temporarily abled

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Post by Tempest1981 »

tempaway41114 wrote: post #257
bryanrasmussen wrote: post #94

In terms of web UX, one disability that hardly anyone considers is intellectual disability - but really many people who work in development (design, project management, programming) are outliers in terms of intellectual ability (albeit probably not as much as they think they are) But we're all just temporarily smart as well, many people are not that bright before that first cup of coffee or if they are going through…

My daughter has a very serious learning disability and she loves to swipe through home photos or videos on an android phone or on an ipad. She can mostly get on OK but when you look at it from her point of view, its _amazing_ how complicated 'swiping through pics' has become. Swipe from the top? that brings the notifications Swipe from the bottom? Brings up photo options. Press on one of those by accident and you end…

"Hidden affordances" are hard for novice/elderly users too.

Re: We’re all just temporarily abled

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Post by digging »

ryandrake wrote: post #376
digging wrote: post #321

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> It makes me feel like I'm just not worthy for life because hey, if they can make it, why can't I? Honestly though, nobody should have to earn a decent living, regardless of level of ability. They're alive, and not by choice, so they should be able to enjoy it. Meritocracy is just cruelty when extended to the conditions of one's life - we want those with the fewest intrinsic resources be made to suffer? I don't.

"We should do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a living. We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery becau…

I've never liked that quote because without context the criticism of inspectors and their tools sounds foolish to me. Inspectors generally serve an extremely useful role, I think the friction is that they're people. I compare them to a linter. We should probably have more inspectors unless AI can do it more easily, because capitalists will cut corners, risking the health and lives of others, at basically any opportunity.

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Post by jnovek »

floxy wrote: post #438
jnovek wrote: post #280

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It's not even pain-oriented. It's visibility-oriented. I deal with chronic migraine and it's extremely difficult to get on SSDI for that disorder (unless it is secondary to something more visible, like a TBI). Other invisible chronic pain conditions (e.g. fibromyalgia) are similarly dismissed.

Off-topic, but have you tried a CGRP Inhibitor? That's a newish class of drugs specifically developed for migraine. Aimovig has been game changing for me. https://www.webmd.com/migraines-headaches/cgrp-inhibitors-fo...

Yes! Also, I’m glad it’s helped you; migraine is utterly miserable.

Like many folks with chronic migraine, though, my approach has multiple facets.

Emgality is part of my management strategy and it significantly improved my total number of headache days per month. It got me to the point where I could start realistically making some lifestyle changes that helped as well.

Botox has also been great. It seems to do less for total number of headache days but it does a lot of duration and intensity. Many days I’m functioning even though I’m dealing with some pain in the background.

It’s not perfect but it’s still a much better place than I was before. :-)

Re: We’re all just temporarily abled

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Post by ryandrake »

digging wrote: post #462
ryandrake wrote: post #376

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"We should do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a living. We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery becau…

I've never liked that quote because without context the criticism of inspectors and their tools sounds foolish to me. Inspectors generally serve an extremely useful role, I think the friction is that they're people. I compare them to a linter. We should probably have more inspectors unless AI can do it more easily, because capitalists will cut corners, risking the health and lives of others, at basically any opportun…

I don't think the quote was a specific dig against Inspection-related professions, but more a criticism of make-work (or so-called bullshit) jobs. Maybe a more modern version of the quote would replace "inspectors" with "administrators".

Re: We’re all just temporarily abled

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Post by cxr »

tjoff wrote: post #456
ryathal wrote: post #359

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It's been a while, but I'm not convinced there is a truly accessible date picker out there. Allowing manual typing of the date seems like the best and only viable option.

Somewhat agree, but when you say typing the date you mean ISO 8601, right? That is the only sensible format for dates, and while all developers probably agree on that it isn't a given that all your users will.

As input, any permutation of full year, full month name, and day of the month is unambiguous wrt any date on or after January 1, 100 CE* and therefore sensible, no matter how unusual/obscure. (The issue of handling multiple languages isn't a rejoinder to this, because that's just localization, which is an umbrella that should already exist so treating it like a new requirement would just be double counting.) This is how every browser-native datepicker should already work, although regretfully they do not.

* 32 CE, if you want to really get down to it

Re: We’re all just temporarily abled

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Post by jnovek »

concomitant wrote: post #372
jnovek wrote: post #295

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A bit of a tangent. My experience suggests that the transactional nature of modern medicine is part of what makes these types of investigations so hard. A doctor will be booked solid all day without time to reflect or investigate and that really only works with one-off problems. A chronic condition is not transactional, it's narrative. Someone needs to manage that narrative and mine it for insights. The only way the…

I’m not sure transactional is the right word. The problem you are identifying is physician bandwidth, or more fundamentally, insufficient physician supply to meet medical demand, which leads to lower quality care.

I think you’re absolutely right that that physician bandwidth is the cause, I think you could characterize the transactional medical experience as a side effect of that problem.

When I say transactional, I mean that each interaction has a cause (“what brings you in today?”) and an action (“try this medication”, “see this specialist”); each visit is like a full story arc from start to finish.

Compare that to psychotherapy where each visit is more like a continuation of the previous session — a narrative. IMO, people who suffer from chronic conditions would benefit from a model that draws on the narrative aspect of therapy.

Re: We’re all just temporarily abled

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Post by nwiswell »

stewarts wrote: post #384
boppo1 wrote: post #341

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How does one know when newbie gains are maxed out? I mostly do calisthenics because I actually got into working out because it was part of injury-recovery. I'm enjoying my gains and would like to push myself to get bigger gains, but lifelong fitness maintenance has always been #1 in my mind. I'd like to figure out how to identify what the "maximum maintenance point" is.

This depends on lift frequency, the lift itself, etc. In general, for a compound lift (squat/bench/deadlift/overhead press) most would consider newbie gains exhausted once you can no longer linearly add weight/reps on a weekly basis (assuming a normal weekly schedule). This is the point when various forms of periodization (waving weight/reps/frequency up/down in many possible ways) need to start to support the increa…

> most would consider newbie gains exhausted once you can no longer linearly add weight/reps on a weekly basis

This is likely to happen after about 3 months.

I don't really agree that the kind of weights you can achieve after 3 months pose a meaningfully elevated injury risk, unless your form is terrible or you have some existing condition.

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Post by astrospective »

SoftTalker wrote: post #377
ryathal wrote: post #359

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It's been a while, but I'm not convinced there is a truly accessible date picker out there. Allowing manual typing of the date seems like the best and only viable option.

Also just typing the date manually is almost always faster than using a date picker. Or at least that's how I perceive it, which is all that matters. I hate apps that force me to take my hands off the keyboard and use the mouse.

Also every year I get a little more resentful of spinner wheels for year of birth that start at the current year.

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Post by gertlex »

oalders wrote: post #331
zippergz wrote: post #288

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Is there any particular type or brand of earplugs you recommend, that are comfortable enough to wear for multiple hours and don't make the music sound too muffled (while still reducing the volume to safe levels)?

If you can see an audiologist, they should be able to get you custom molded ear plugs. You can buy filters for different sound levels, so that you can reduce the volume and still be able to hear enough to enjoy music at a concert etc. If they're well made, you can probably wear them for a few hours without too much discomfort. They're more expensive than something that is off the shelf, but being able to choose the a…

I've been wearing BTE (behind the ear) hearing aids since I was a kid. So I have the custom molded ear plugs (with hole for tubing) like you mention. I enjoy that they're a magical always-ready pair of earplugs.

But recently trying to use some actual ear plugs to help sleep at a noisy location... I thought they weren't helping, and then I learned from my wife that I wasn't using them correctly. It seems the trick was getting them further in the ear (I think further in than my ear molds go), and voila, more of a difference; better than turning off my hearing aids. I've also noticed the difference recently, using ear plugs when using power tools in the garage (dremel, jigsaw).

So I'm curious if the fitted ones are all equivalent to properly inserted earplugs or not. It's also possible the hole for tubing is the culprit of my observations.

Just another anecdote that might be interesting: audiologists have been doing molded ear plugs since at least the 90s. I remember the posters of cool colorful "swim plugs" back then.

...re-reading: I see now your mention of using various filters. I'll have to read up on that too.

Re: We’re all just temporarily abled

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Post by dogman144 »

grudg3 wrote: post #84
safety1st wrote: post #46

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Your comment is being downvoted because it's low quality. It's basically a drive-by hit on SS with no context. I will upvote it and add some context. * thefitness.wiki is maintained by Reddit's r/fitness and it's a great resource. * Parent had to use an archive.org link because thefitness.wiki long ago removed the post he linked to. * I suspect they removed the post because thefitness.wiki now has a 'Basic Beginner R…

What would you recommend to someone older to start with? I've done SS in my late 20s but I do feel like I'd like to try something new as I get closer to 40 and considering some exercise. Context, I wfh, am overweight and extremely sedentary. At the moment have been purely working on my diet but exercising is next.

For my job, I was fit and strong until 28, COVID gym closures and a career change later into wfh tech I was 31 and out of shape and verging on unpleasantly so. I was worried if I could get back into shape easily, but did the below. Only hard part was the discipline tbh, as I started at very low weights/just the bar in some cases.

If you’re familiar with SS, what worked for me was a modified version. I threw out the linear progression and squat 3x times a week goals, and focused on lifting 3x a week come hell or high water and hit 5+ increases if I was able. 30-60 days of that, you’re back at an easy point to decide to get “really fit” or just stay active.

Day 1: squat 3x5, DL 3x10, lunges (the second week, DL 1x5, squat 3x10)

Day 2: bench 3x5, press 3x10, push-ups (swap bench and press same as above week 2)

Day 3: row 3x5, pull-ups, arms/w-e else.

I’m nowhere near when I was strong but my numbers make Me feel ok about things now, as I know I’m now out of the dangerzone of out of shape AF

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