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eric-huon In SSRI withdrawal, brain zaps go from overlooked symptom to center stage (2023)

> Right, but splitting isn't sufficient for many people. The person I know was on 50mg. They tried to carefully shave off 1/8th initially, then 1/4 etc. It was error prone cutting them exactly and even a 1/8th change in dose at a time with a two week adjustment period caused them to have terrible effects.

This was the case for me! It took me months to titrate down to 0 from Sertraline. Withdrawal side effects were terrible, and I’m pretty turned off to SSRIs in general now. My past doctors talked them up as “safe”, and treated the ramp down process as a tiny inconsequential mention.

I had tried to stop after stabilizing on a half dose, 1/4 dose, etc., and the side effects were too unpleasant so I had to start back up. I could only stop after I titrated down to 1/8th, every other day.

eric-huon Lina Khan Is Just Getting Started (She Hopes)

https://archive.is/B0uh7

eric-huon US weighs Google break-up in landmark antitrust case

> godlike technofeudalism

Interesting term. On a geopolitical scale, how is the US/NATO’s position any different? There are export controls around advanced semiconductors and encryption algorithms.

Is it okay to do this between countries but not within societies? (Genuine question. I really don’t know where I stand on this, for either side.)

eric-huon Upgrading Homebrew and avoiding the "failed to verify attestation" error

There’s command to see your leaf dependencies:

https://docs.brew.sh/Manpage#leaves---installed-on-request--...

eric-huon Dockworkers at ports from Maine to Texas go on strike

You might be looking at the 100 hours thinking that’s grueling work. Meanwhile workers could be looking at that thinking it’s their AWS auto scaling for their family income.

I have a friend doing electrical line work. He’s gone back and forth between IC work and management. ICs trend to get paid better, because of strong overtime compensation rules and there’s a queue of overtime work. Those overtime weeks sound rough though. 12+ hour work days working with heavy machinery and 10 Kv power lines.

eric-huon Timeshare owner? The Mexican drug cartels want you

When you say "to supposedly help", do you mean they actually help, or this industry is also scammers?

Asking because someone in my extended family owns a timeshare and got scammed with an exit offer. It sounded similar to the timeshare pitch itself.

eric-huon Amazon tells employees to return to office five days a week

I’m currently job searching and I tend to just see (remote) or (hybrid). It usually requires me digging into the description to see if a company has an office I can go to.

Some that are hybrid optional list themselves as (remote), but do so fully remote companies.

eric-huon Founder Mode, hackers, and being bored by tech

How have you kept the ageism from scaring you off or just turning you off to go to another industry?

eric-huon We spent $20 to achieve RCE and accidentally became the admins of .mobi

Whatever the cost is, it's one time. I ported a number to Google Voice in 2016 and haven't paid a dime for it since then.

eric-huon SQLite on Rails: The how and why of optimal performance

https://levels.io/remote-ok/

2015

> It’d analyze the feed, see which jobs were remote, then normalize the data and then push it into a simple SQLite database (yes, I’m not using JSON text files as a database anymore, thank you :P).

https://levels.io/how-i-build-my-minimum-viable-products/

2014

> This includes all data used by the app. I actually shy away from using real database systems in the 12 startups. Instead I use JSON text files.

I was hoping to find data on Pieter's current projects using Sqlite and their loads. (For all I know, RemoteOK still does, but I can't find more recent posts about it).

eric-huon Why GitHub won

I only learned the term grayware from this thread. I wasn't sure precisely what did and didn't qualify as malware, so I checked Wikipedia and found it there.

As for the Windows fear, I understand that. That was me 10+ years ago, and I _am_ less knowledgable at helping people with Windows these days. I can still figure some things out by searching, and "I couldn't figure it out after 5-10 minutes" has turned out to be an acceptable answer too sometimes :)

eric-huon Why GitHub won

You got a chuckle out of me with such a specific reference that I know I got auto-installed too. I don't know, personally, but I do recall reading accounts of malware from them from around that era.

I suppose I would call what I saw "Grayware" [1], which is debatably not malware (but debatably is, too). It was enough of a smell for me to stop using their site, though. I'd actually just forego software I was seeking out from them instead.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malware#Grayware

eric-huon Why GitHub won

Didn’t they also start packaging malware into binary downloads?

eric-huon Speeding up Electron apps by using V8 snapshots in the main process

Indeed I was. I mentioned vim because I’m used to that level of performance and VS Code is on par. I have experienced sluggishness with Slack, so I meant Slack likely has performance issues due its application code rather than its Electron dependency.

eric-huon Keyhole – Forge own Windows Store licenses

> (which will cause your licenses to eventually expire, in the year timespan or so)

Can you manually modify the system clock? If so you could roll the calendar back every 3-6 months.

eric-huon Speeding up Electron apps by using V8 snapshots in the main process

After using VS Code for a while coming from vim, I’m inclined to say it’s bad application programming.

eric-huon Intel Honesty

Why focus on revenue instead of income? Regardless of what Intel’s revenue is, they’re losing money. AMD is earning.

eric-huon Intel Honesty

That sounds like a policy I can get behind. Can you share a name of such a policy or a link to one?

eric-huon Intel Honesty

> Another way to look at it: Intel market cap is 83B, AMD's market cap is 228B. Do you think Intel is expected to make 1/3 of the money AMD is going to make in coming decades? I see no reason to be as optimistic.

Nit: market cap is not earnings. That's stock price * shares outstanding.

This year's earnings looks like this:

Intel, 3 months ended: Jun 29, 2024

> Net income (loss) (1,654)

https://www.intc.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/1704/...

AMD, 3 months ended: June 29, 2024

> Net income (loss) $ 265

https://ir.amd.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/1209/am...

So Intel lost 1654M and AMD earned 265M. This only makes your point stronger.

eric-huon Intel Honesty

> Desirable urban areas of California are expensive because we don't have enough housing.

I hear this a lot about California and other places. But I also know lots of people look to buy a 2nd, 3rd, etc property for rental income. For those homeowners, buying more property is rational because it's an investment they already understand. They can reap economy of scale benefits, even at a low multiple like 2-3 properties: water heaters, dishwashers etc become easier to maintain. The incentives are strong for homeowners to buy rental property. And they're in a stronger position to buy than renters.

My gut tells me that 7-8 of every 10 new houses built are bought with the intention to rent it out. It seems like "build more homes" will result in current property owners owning more property to rent out, and most renters will still be renters.

eric-huon Is AI eating all the energy?

> While I've read that there's not a lot of difference between just chilling and thinking of some hard problem

I find that difficult to reconcile with chess grandmaster calorie consumption.

https://www.npr.org/2019/09/18/762046422/the-chess-grandmast...

> Polard, this company that tracks heart rates, monitored chess players during a tournament and found out that this 21-year-old Russian grandmaster, Mikhail Antipov, had burned 560 calories in two hours, which we found out was roughly what Roger Federer would burn in one hour of singles tennis.

eric-huon Interviewing the Interviewer: Questions to Uncover a Company's True Culture

I’m currently job seeking. Some companies apply to the letter of this but still share almost no information. I’ve seen salary ranges like 140-280k. In essence that tells me the company still wants to not overpay like the parent comment said.

eric-huon NASA says Boeing Starliner astronauts may fly home on SpaceX in 2025

That's news that Ortberg is succeeding Dave Calhoun. Boeing announced that Calhoun would step down back in March.

eric-huon NASA says Boeing Starliner astronauts may fly home on SpaceX in 2025

I’m not seeing news about that when I search for it. Got a source?

eric-huon Twitter kills its San Francisco headquarters, will relocate to South Bay

Wow. I had to fact-check this. Wow.

https://www.hoover.org/research/despite-spending-11-billion-...

> San Francisco is slightly smaller than Jacksonville, Florida. Yet San Francisco’s homelessness budget—$1.1 billion in fiscal year 2021–22—is nearly 80 percent of Jacksonville’s entire city budget.

eric-huon Moments in Chromecast's history

> Google cannot make a profit from them

*enough profit

Remember that Google has sunset many products because those profits pale in comparison to search and advertising.

eric-huon Making your own hot sauce

That sounds amazing, thank you for sharing.

I wonder if your experience with maple syrup is different from the author’s because of differences in pork belly size. My recent food experiences lead me to believe that sugar doesn’t penetrate solid foods deeply even when left over days or weeks. If that’s true, your unwashed bacon and the author’s could vary from the author’s by surface area. Or it could be a subjective matter of taste.

eric-huon Making your own hot sauce

Can you share more about what you did for salt curing bacon? That sounds intriguing

eric-huon A chemist explains the chemistry behind decaf coffee

Have you looked into L-Theanine? It’s an extract from green tea. I add it to my coffee sometimes and it smooths out the experience