adrice727

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Comment · 3 years ago

Did you know that Linda's husband became devoted to Oxycontin after his shoulder surgery?

Comment · 4 years ago

  address my issues with the platform

What are your issues? What could Substack be doing better for fiction writers?

Comment · 4 years ago

About 10 years ago, I started having really bad low back pain and could barely get out of bed some mornings. Different doctors told me different things. I tried chiropractic, acupuncture, stretching - nothing was helping. Then I came across one of Sarno's books. I was very skeptical, but I found that within 20 pages, he had described my situation to a tee. I followed the advice in the book and was back to running and yoga within a week, and was lifting weights again a couple weeks later.

Sarno's books and theories are a bit outdated at this point, but we now have people like Howard Schubiner and Nicole Sachs, and things like Curable.

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34586357/ [2] https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-cure-for-chronic-p... [3] https://www.curablehealth.com

Comment · 6 years ago

  . . . which they describe as a profoundly nihilist state of being

Where are you getting this from? I don't know of any traditions that would describe it in this way.

Comment · 7 years ago

Why does this seem to be different with software as opposed to other areas of engineering? Is it a generational thing?

Before jumping into the tech industry, I worked in the automotive industry and spent a lot of time around engineers. They were mostly all over 40 and they mostly all fit the stereotype of the frugal engineer. I don't see too many of those engineers in the Bay Area.

Comment · 8 years ago

It's a far cry from actual pattern matching, but you can always tag your types[1]:

  interface Tagged {
    tag: string;
  }

  interface Circle extends Tagged {
    tag: 'circle'
  }

  // ... Other implementations 

  switch (myShape.tag) {
    case 'circle': {
      // Do circular things
    }
    // etc . . .
  }

You'll occasionally even see this in Scala code, since the @switch annotation optimizes pattern-match statements[2].

1. https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/advanced-types....

2. https://www.scala-lang.org/api/2.12.x/scala/annotation/switc...

Comment · 8 years ago

No, he doesn't.

"...I got dismissed from Harvard because I had given psychedelics to an undergraduate. We had agreed with the dean that we would not give psychedelics to undergraduates.” Ram Dass flashes a mischievous grin. “He was an attractive kid.”

That's all that is said about the situation.