nickbarnwell

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by nickbarnwell 7y ago
What I most frequently heard was "There are two solutions: the deprecated one, and the one that doesn't work yet."
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by nickbarnwell 7y ago
As do 99% of bicycle manufacturers producing CF frames - the expertise and manufacturing base are primarily in Taiwan, and everyone from Trek to Canyon are sourcing from the same few people. There are some boutique brands still doing lugged
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by nickbarnwell 7y ago
Incredibly bearish. To summarise a few decades of common factors research poorly, our understanding of therapy's mechanism of action is limited, and it's not clear that any given technique or modality has superior curative power c
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by nickbarnwell 7y ago
For anyone debating whether to pick up the book discussed in the article, I'm about halfway through right now and would highly recommend it. Harrington's a clearly talented writer and has done an amazing job weaving together the s
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by nickbarnwell 7y ago
Though much improved since the early days, both the 3 and the S have considerably worse fit and finish and material quality than competitively priced vehicles. Whether for weight, cost, or complexity savings, they also eschew a lot of sound
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by nickbarnwell 7y ago
The least expensive Model 3 in Germany is 57.900 EUR with 540km (wltp cycle) of range – part of this is that they've only been exporting the high margin long-range AWD models. The more expensive "First Edition" id.3 will have
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by nickbarnwell 7y ago
> reading self-help books…is similarly effective to in-person psychotherapy That was not the outcome of the CPR paper, and even the authors' statement in the abstract is considerably more hedged than you imply here. iCBT and bibliot
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by nickbarnwell 7y ago
Teletherapy outcomes have yet to be thoroughly researched, but anecdotally most clinicians report a strong preference for face-to-face sessions. Part of the discomfort stems from legal concerns – how do you handle a patient who reports int
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by nickbarnwell 7y ago
Even at the top end of that range it's less than what a competitive internships annualised compensation would be. Are you really able to hire people at those rates?
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by nickbarnwell 7y ago
There is a both a large and strong evidence base for the usage of ECT in cases of severe, treatment resistant depression. Many aspects of modern medicine can be made to sound barbaric with the right framing; those who disparage ECT are not
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by nickbarnwell 7y ago
It really is the last resort; even if you were able to find a psychiatrist willing to administer a course of it without extensive trials of multiple classes of psychotropic medication as an adjunct to psychotherapy, your insurer is definit
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by nickbarnwell 7y ago
I can't speak to Amazon, but at Microsoft the equivalents to the Google offering are going to have the same OSS competitors. Having worked on services there, the only thing I really miss is Kusto; it's now available as an Azure se
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by nickbarnwell 7y ago
All three have talk therapy within their scope of practice, and "the talking cure" originated with 19th century German doctors. Until the middle of the 20th century it was exclusively the domain of MDs. In modernity, insurance rei
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by nickbarnwell 8y ago
It is harsh, but where's the fun in the comment section of an HN post on psychology without a little hyperbole? My disdain comes from seeing people I'm close to repeatedly pushed towards those treatments by practitioners who, when
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by nickbarnwell 8y ago
I am referring to traditional agents, not ketamine. There is insufficient evidence to draw conclusions about Ketamine's usefulness as a rapidly acting agent for treatment of depression. I lack training in psychopharmacology or neurosci
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by nickbarnwell 8y ago
The problem is that the effect sizes for most anti-depressants is quite small and the role of pharmaceutical companies in advancing their use has been quite a bit larger. The difference between psychotherapy and medication and psychotherapy
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by nickbarnwell 8y ago
Anecdata is also all that supports TMS and Ketamine. There's not been sufficient time for longitudinal studies to be conducted or more efficacious protocols to be developed. Had your loved one tried ECT prior to ketamine infusion? Thou
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by nickbarnwell 8y ago
There is very limited evidence that the bilateral stimulation has _any_ impact on treatment outcomes [0]. EMDR is PE with a marketing machine behind it. To quote Robert Ursano, a prominent figure in trauma research and treatment at the VA,
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by nickbarnwell 8y ago
If you've a sufficiently decent input manager or a programmable keyboard, you can have Caps Lock play double duty as both. I am an emacs and evil user, so I have tapping caps configured to send ^] and holding it to ^. Best of both worl
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by nickbarnwell 8y ago
I'm using lsp-mode and the Eclipse JDT language server. lsp-java is great and the maintainer is very responsive to PRs and feedback. For Scala I use Ensime at work and have been playing with metals at home. The latter is still very muc
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by nickbarnwell 8y ago
I use emacs for Java and Scala development with LSP quite successfully, and VS Code's support for language servers is as good as they come. Is it primarily debugging that's the impediment to switching for you?
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by nickbarnwell 8y ago
While van der Kolk et al. have certainly contributed a great deal to the study of trauma and helped popularise ideas that have been known within the academy, he remains a controversial figure and spends a great deal of the text going off on
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by nickbarnwell 8y ago
Sadly, we don’t know enough about the brain to have any idea which medications are going to work or what it is people need right away. While you certainly could sedate people to the point of utter apathy by giving every shmiel who walks thr
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by nickbarnwell 8y ago
The usage of ketamine in the trials for depression typically uses IV administration over a fairly long timespan with highly specific dosages. It is not comparable to street usage of the drug. As with any psychotropic medication, one should
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by nickbarnwell 8y ago
I think "mirror" is a more intuitive description of the problem, but essentially you reverse all of the left and right subtrees. This Quora question [1] has a few different approaches listed. [1]: https://www.quora.com&
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by nickbarnwell 8y ago
But you could use the Bitlbee FBMQTT Plugin [1] and WeeChat's scripting functionality to implement it for your personal account. Probably an afternoon's worth of work if you have a VPS or t1.micro lying around to run a daemon on f
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by nickbarnwell 8y ago
The former.
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by nickbarnwell 8y ago
I haven't followed the sport closely in a few years, but the economics of cycling mean most riders, men and women alike, are paid poorly relative to athletes in other sports; it's more comparable to sailing than football. No one i
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by nickbarnwell 8y ago
Having full control over aperture, shutter speed, and ISO allows you to create shots in-camera that would otherwise require extensive post-processing or compositing. Sometimes you want some motion blur in the scene while maintaing shallow d
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by nickbarnwell 8y ago
"Sovereign" or "Monarch" would be the gender neutral equivalent.

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