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That's essentially the worst thing you could be doing for your long term health and happiness. I suggest starting with sleep, moving to exercise (compliance is better than difficulty, i.e. better to start walking and follow through compared to saying you'll go to the gym 5 days a week and go 0).

Source? Genuinely curious, surprised I haven’t stumbled upon that before. I know long retreats can trigger psychosis, but that’s at one extreme

Yup, I evaluated the tool and got it working with our repo in a trial run, hopefully going to do some git testing in the near future... when I have time to write some scripts.

What tool did you use? Also how did you migrate who did commits etc, I found and updated branch of the vault2git tool, but it didn’t have an explanation of how to use the xml for mapping branches and such... I’m honesty forgetting it’s been a few months since I looked at it... I’m hopefully though.

Sorry for the rant >.<

As someone who was not kind to themselves for a long time, I highly recommend this.

Sleep and exercise are the two most important things you should absolutely be doing to improve your life.

Followed by diet and meditation.

Also, if you’re anything like me, forcing yourself to spend time with people will make you significantly happier. (Speaking as someone who has a tendency to isolate themselves.

Sourcegear vault... it sucks. Branching is really expensive, it’s mainly GUI based...

Partially related to insulin and blood sugar levels largely.

IGF.

Depends on the cancer though, etc.

Congrats!

She's asexual, so I don't think it'd work out.

This really doesn't relate too much, but I've realized over time that I'm essentially in love with one of my best friends (of the opposite gender).

We've been friends for 10 years, and just spending time around her makes me feel so relaxed and satisfied with life, it's a unique feeling to someone like me who hasn't been in much of a relationship so far in my life.

I'm able to maintain a good friendship despite this, and I guess I just treat it as some weird thing. I'm super grateful for the friendship we have, and it's amazing that these feelings persist even though I now only see her a couple of times a year.

I think part of me hoped we'd end up dating at some point, but I find that highly unlikely to work given certain circumstances. Either way, I remain grateful for what I have, and hope to find someone else that I'm able to relate to emotionally in the same way.

Anecdotally, I notice a large improvement in my mood within a week when I start exercising after not having done so in a while.

This has happened to me on multiple occasions.

My companies entire backend is Common Lisp.

We have quite a few of these books laying around, along with Practical Common Lisp.

Tim Ferriss used to advertise for them... a lot...

Ooof

> She's well worth a follow Seconded.

I would argue someone in a short position has more incentive to produce negative news than someone in a long position does to produce positive news.

I take propranolol with ADHD medication to help negate some of the anxiety/raised heart rate effects.

I'm not sure if I've noticed a difference with anxiety while on it, other than the mitigation of anxiety from ADHD medication.

I guess I should try taking it alone.

That being said, a large part of my psychological issues are due to anxiety, but I haven't seen any treatments that have been compelling enough for me to try (SSRI's/benzos mainly).

I do exercise, try to be good about sleep, try to force myself to get out with friends or family every other week or so.

Additionally, I've noticed meditation to be a large help for me with anxiety. It took me a while to where I really notice the difference, but I've reached a point where I can say I notice if I've meditated the night before or not.

(I'm not advocating for or against any medication, individual situations vary, and people should consider treatment in the context of their situation with their doctor)

It's easy enough to get Turing complete config files with LISP

shivers

How much of a hypothetical salary cut did you take to work there as opposed to other places, do you mind talking about your salary history?

I moved from a 2009 Chevy Aveo with 108hp to a 2003 Accord with a V6 and 240hp... Aveo had a manual transmission, and I miss having one so much.

Everything else about the Accord is significantly better, but man do I miss having a stick shift.

Stoicism:

Focus on the things you can control.

Also, try to limit your exposure to the news, be deliberate about how much information/spam/whatever you are bombarded with on a daily basis.

We use Allegro Common Lisp which has an interface[1] to emacs, and it's quite nice to use, minus several annoying bugs. Notably, gives you access to a REPL.

I just started working as a developer, and so far enjoying using it, despite not having experience with other languages in a professional capacity, or with large projects. The less my hands have to leave the keyboard the happier I am :).

I do use evil-mode, but I should probably get more comfortable with emacs keybindings as time goes on, especially since emacs has some useful keybindings in the context of s-expressions from what I recall.

[1]: https://franz.com/support/documentation/10.1/doc/eli.htm

I’ve come to hate ads for how much they try to get me to buy things I don’t need.

Sure you can say something about willpower whatever, but constantly being bombarded by them is horrible.

I’m pretty happy with what I have, I don’t need all this stuff. But advertising makes me want stuff I don’t need.

I don’t feel bad about blocking advertising to improve my quality of life.

> I've heard of numerous studies that point out that people's happiness and wealth don't correlate much past a certain point

That point is significantly above median person income, or a similar comparison to median household income.

I just got my first developer position writing in Allegro Common Lisp, and I have to say I really enjoy the language, along with having an IDE that hooks into emacs [1][2]. For someone who is new to software development reading through the code is reasonable to do, and having a REPL at my disposal is quite nice.

[1]: https://github.com/franzinc/eli [2]: https://franz.com/support/documentation/current/doc/eli.htm

Explains Hell

There are a handful of nice window management tools, and chunkwm is a filing window manager for macOS

An all-meat (carnivore) diet turns out to be a hell of an elimination diet, which probably explains the large impact on their well-being.

I feel like we do not know the answer 100% for sure.

But from what I know eating vegan is totally safe if you watch your micro nutrients.

---- Speculation below ---- (corrections and comments welcome)

Doing double blinded control trials with diets over the long term is impossible, and there are so many confounding variables with diet study.

Also, as Peter Attia likes to talk about, there is a lot of variation from person to person.

I follow Rhonda Patrick and Peter Attia, and it's very interesting to hear what they have to say, and they are clearly smart individuals who are consistent, and really try to do their best with looking at diet. Also, I trust their intentions and the way they approach these problems, unlike certain other people. (I believe consistency is one of the best ways to point out issues in the way someone evaluates evidence, and to now use them as a reference source)

I think part of the issue comes down to if you want to be on the cutting edge, you have to take risk, because at the leading edge there isn't enough evidence to be 100% sure.

It's interesting to see vegans and keto type people degree with each other, because it shows two group of people who are convinced their way is best.

Things that are popular right now seem to be keto, vegan, various forms of fasting, and omega 3.

Peter Attia likes to talk about keeping blood sugar, and therefore insulin low, which I think has a good amount of evidence behind it, but good luck getting a continuous glucose monitor.

I think we can pretty much all agree on avoiding too much red meat, processed foods, and sugar is generally going to get some of the largest results.

There is also a lot of talk about fasting. It seems like eating in a smaller window is best, but at the same time we don't 100% know.

If I were trying to eat an optimal diet, I think I'd side on the low sugar (and trying to minimize blood sugar), lots of plants, a little bit of meat (not much red meat), eating within a small window, low mounts of (or no) alcohol.

We are becoming aware of the many issues with scientific studies, and dietary studies may be some of the worse.

Additionally, things that we discover on mice (and other animals) often don't translate to humans well.

I think with a vegan diet you have to be careful that you are getting all your nutrients, but I haven't seen much evidence against it.

Some notable vegans include Alex Honnold (Free Solo, first person to climb El Capitan without a rope and harness), Clarence Kennedy (insanely strong weightlifter, freak of nature; he does steroids, but still is extremely strong given his body weight), Scott Jurek (one of the fastest people to complete a 2000 trail, Appalachian Trail). These are people at the extremes of performance.

I think at the end of the day it depends on how much risk you want to take, and how much time you want to invest in this. At some point you can spend more time optimizing your diet than the gains you get from those things. Also, individual variation can be huge between the way ones body processes things.

With tmux you can have multiple terminal panes going in a session, disconnect, and then reconnect.

Working on being more social is something I’ve started to focus on as well. As someone who deals with mental health issues, I find great relief and satisfaction after spending time with friends.

I say this as someone who didn’t really do anything fun during the vast majority of college and tried to work hard.

Without spending time socially (outside of daily interaction) I was really just sabotaging myself.

Also, living on my own now and working a full time job, I think it’s important to focus on it to make sure I don’t let my mental health slip out of self imposed isolation (which has been a recurring theme in my life).

Can't wait for this to be discontinued!