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Re:Move Slow and Fix Things (2024) on Friday October 23, 2026 @02:11AM (#50205046)
The first time in over 15 years of coming to hacker news that my trust in their feed has been eroded a little
Re:Railway Blocked by Google Cloud on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @12:16AM (#48203015)
All in on cloud so we don’t need to worry about backups. Now your subscription is the single point of failure.
Very neat! :)
I agree completely. Diet and low impact exercise/stretching are the big ones.

I was diagnosed with AS as a teenager and recall spending months at a time on crutches with swollen ankles and knees (having a fluid drained and replaced with cortisone injections), at times it affected my finger joints, and in my twenties and early thirties my lower back. Throughout most of these years, particularly early on, Naprosyn was my goto solution.

Up until about 2 years ago, I couldn't imagine getting a solid night sleep without some kind of lower back pain waking me, and putting my socks/shoes on of a morning generally involved sitting or laying on a bed and straining to pull my feet up to reach them.

I'm not big on swimming, but in the past couple of years have taken up regular Yoga and this has had huge benefits for my lower back (and state of mind).

Even more fundamental to this, I believe is my change of diet. Over the past couple of years I've (gradually) reduced my sugar, dairy and meat intake and adopted a more planted based diet. I didn't dive in at the deep end, but I'm now at the put where the only dairy I now indulge in is the occasional cheese, I eat virtually no red or processed meats, might eat chicken/fish once a week at most, and sooth my sweet tongue naturally with fruits, honey, etc.

My lower back hasn't bothered me for about 18 months, I can now put my socks on while standing and I rarely, if ever, suffer joint pain elsewhere. I feel more energetic, have taken up running (ran my first 5k recently) which is something I always thought would be something beyond my reach.

I don't like to preach or say any one particular thing (if anything) is going to change your particular situation. I can only say the improvement in my quality of life over the past couple of years has been significant since changing my diet and introducing some regular movement.

Re:Mmm, Pi-hole on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @09:46PM (#18081608)
DNS over TLS
Re:Some killjoys have removed the blink tag from Firefox on Thursday August 08, 2013 @11:18PM (#6183549)
I guess safari has already removed support for this tag? I get no blinking cursor on this page :o(
Re:Lytro cameras are ready for preorder. on Wednesday October 19, 2011 @10:32PM (#3133155)
Sweet! I find it amusing that products are starting to come onto the market that initially support Mac and not Windows...how the tables turn :)
Re:ICANN Approves generic top-level domains on Monday June 20, 2011 @08:32AM (#2673847)
I'm going to miss the Chrome (IE9 too) combined search/address bar. No more will I be able to type in "haircut" or "bank" and have my browser know to kick off a search as there's no clear distinction from TLDs anymore.