Daniel Neal

I play violin and write code but I mainly post here because I had neuroleptic induced akathisia and I think we must find non violent interventions in psychosis.

[Daniel Neal @DanielNeal2]

babe wake up a new @StephenSkolnick essay just landed

https://t.co/cKrViCGf0h

[Daniel Neal @DanielNeal2]

Yeah, prism mode in emacs. I love it. I went monochrome for a while - only highlighting comments, strings. I didn't get much benefit from traditional highlighting as everything it picks out already has a recognisable visual pattern or text cue.

I find highlighting nesting level sometimes provides an extra layer of utility and helps me see when I've got a misplaced bracket.

Plus it sparks joy!

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@Philosophi_Cat Early WIP of a song dedicated to jupiter in 12/8 time - just recorded the drums today, in fact. A little synchronicity.

https://t.co/S7sqhgj31w

[Daniel Neal @DanielNeal2]

@Philosophi_Cat I have my own personal numerology system, in which 12/8 time is ruled by Jupiter.

Your Jupiter is in Capricorn, like mine - makes sense you don't like it. That kind of fun vibe doesn't come easy to us!

Not even kidding....

[Daniel Neal @DanielNeal2]

@paulg 10, 000 lines of code! What does it all do, I wonder?

What happened to Bill Gate's famous aphorism - "Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight"?

No longer relevant?

[Daniel Neal @DanielNeal2]

You're not nuts. Akathisia is caused by drugs, it's not treatable by drugs. Drugs may alter the symptoms i.e. for a while I was on 20mg of diazepam to counter the action of akathisia induced by olanzapine.

But the akathisia problem didn't go away, it was transformed from a movement disorder into something more like non-stop generalized pain, which didn't abate until the doctors allowed me to stop taking antipsychotic that was causing the problem.

Then I stopped sleeping because I'd developed a tolerance to the diazepam and needed it to sleep.

So yeah, that these drugs have been historically used in an akathisia presentation doesn't mean they are humane or effective.

[Daniel Neal @DanielNeal2]

@Jonathan_Blow What makes you want to dunk on Clojure? I loved the Witness. Thought your games were about inciting awe and wonder, so curious what your motivation is here.

[Daniel Neal @DanielNeal2]

I agree, the architecture works well I think for structuring an app, and events that are user driven and following what happens, but data fetching can wind up creating a bunch of incidental complexity, and noise.

Not sure if this is possible or dumb, but It wonder if data-fetching / caching etc shouldn't live inside re-frame itself (ie not use the events/subscriptions) but should hook into it at the edges somehow.

[Daniel Neal @DanielNeal2]

@psviderski @ibuildthecloud

[Daniel Neal @DanielNeal2]

On the problems of "probiotics"...

[Stephen Skolnick @StephenSkolnick]

...trying to find the right strain of Lacto or Bifido to solve your problem is like trying top find the right breed of dog to reforest the Amazon.

It's a non-starter. You need trees for that, and insects to pollinate them, and birds to eat the fruit and disperse the seeds.

[Daniel Neal @DanielNeal2]

@ovstoica @shipclojure Ah, loving the idea of replicant tbh

[Daniel Neal @DanielNeal2]

@ovstoica @shipclojure Looks great dude!

[Ovi Stoica @ovstoica]

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[Daniel Neal @DanielNeal2]

@katsqueden @DrMario1975 @taperclinic You can reduce in small doses by finding a liquid equivalent of the drug, or by crushing the pills and dispersing them in water, and measuring out the solution.

[Daniel Neal @DanielNeal2]

Yes, I second Mark Horowitz's work, imo it's vital which is also backed by lots of practical real world experience. I would strongly caution against reducing any psychiatric drug more than 10% a month.

The institute for psychiatric drug withdrawal is useful https://t.co/C34FUjHAL8

[Daniel Neal @DanielNeal2]

@ovstoica @shipclojure I love the idea of using the AI to write the documentation and examples etc.

[Daniel Neal @DanielNeal2]

@ovstoica "Thy right is to work only, but never to its fruits; let the fruit of action be not thy motive, nor let thy attachment be to inaction." - Lord Krishna (The Bhagavad Gita - 2.47)

[Daniel Neal @DanielNeal2]

@heavyredaction @iatrogenic_harm It sounds like you think conventional psychiatry is a responsible and safe treatment model?

[Daniel Neal @DanielNeal2]

@heavyredaction @Phuxlea When the regulation fails to protect patients - what are they supposed to do?

[Daniel Neal @DanielNeal2]

Psychiatry is a very regulated business that seriously harms people.

To descrribe the fact that peer support groups exist to help those who have survived as "unethical" is like calling Red Cross workers who attend the sick in warzones "unethical" if they happen to receive any compensation at all.

I hope we can agree that patients having help safely to get off of drugs that are causing extreme distress, and that they are being forced on by a system that doesn't know any better is a good thing.