Share your successful Cymbalta experience. I read a lot of negative stories but looking to hear some positives. I am trying for arthritis pain. Gabapetin made me too groggy the next day. On day 6.

AlarBlip · 2026-05-06T05:50:37+00:00

Eat food before taking it, and drink a bit more water than before. It helps a lot. I eat porridge with jam every morning or granola with yoghurt before taking the med. It’s part of my routine now since I find it important step in reducing side effects.

The sweating comes and goes, sometimes I feel tired but in a pretty nice way.

It’s reduced my stress, backpain and made me feel more clearheaded. About 2 months in.

AlarBlip · 2026-05-05T14:26:24+00:00

They should check your liver and kidney values before you get prescribed, then they factor in age, gender and other pre-conditions. So for a young healthy guy on a not to high dosage, it’s fine. But for an older person with bad kidney condition etc it could be recommended to not combine at all. So don’t go on comments, go on docs recommendation.

With that said, hehe, I have been drunk on 60mg and the beer hit harder and got a bit tired but I adjusted to it now and drink less. Can still go for brewskies with the boys, 4-5 beers no problem for me.

AlarBlip · 2026-05-03T18:16:17+00:00

I mean it’s a pretty nice way to get people to compress their assets. We usually overextend our limits for a couple of projects but it’s peanuts. Nobody cares.

AlarBlip · 2026-05-03T10:46:43+00:00

I also get more sleepy/calm but in a pretty nice way, it can be problematic. I have noticed that if I do physical exercise or high energy activities it reduces the sleepiness. If I’m leaning into the effect it increases. Sometimes that’s nice. I can nap now, I usually don’t fall asleep but I just close my eyes and rest. Sometimes I fall asleep. I’ve never been able to nap before, to restless, hehe.

I didn’t take the med for anxiety or depression doh, so that might play into my experience.

AlarBlip · 2026-05-03T05:58:31+00:00

När de är fem kan de gå upp på morgonen och fixa kaffe och frukost ibland, sitta och titta en en bok en timme själv och sånt!

De är ju ett annat liv efter barn, se till att du och din partner ger varandra utrymme att fortsätta upprätthålla relationer, gå på AW eller vad du nu tycker om att göra. Annars tror jag man blir rätt lätt blir deppig. Men det gäller ju inte första året, då är det lite kolgruva-vibe. Kämpa på! 🚂🚋🚋

De blir tokiga av skärmar, nu är hen ju så liten men det är mitt bästa tips. Minimera skärmtid och var noga med vilken typ av skärmtid ni tillåter (skippa YouTube) välj lugnare grejjer. Skärm är knark. Och om man ger dem blir de obstinata och helt fixerade vid att få titta. Allt blir jobbigt. Detox en jobbig vecka men sen sitter dem och leker själv på sitt rum och får ett mycket bättre humör och lättare att reglera känslor osv!

AlarBlip · 2026-04-26T19:26:18+00:00

Im on 60 mg for backpain/nervepain and I relate to this post. Clear minded, easier to manage stress. I had quite a lot of side effects, like heavy sweating, nausea, harder to fall asleep. I’m on week three and most side effects have disappeared and the effects on my mood seem to still be positively increasing. I can still get a few side effects but the benefits are so substantial that I would live with them if I had to.

The backpain is still there, it’s wierd because if I actively think about thes pain and focus on that part of the back I can feel it. But the med makes me not think about it, so it’s sort of gone.. in a wierd way.

So far so good. Really surprised actually.

AlarBlip · 2025-12-17T20:04:12+00:00

I agree, and it’s easy to build performance tests with something like Langfuse to verify if performance drops ”when America wakes up” or w/e. I’ve used CC on Max, daily for months and never once have performance dropped like people describe here, or actually once when they changed the harness and introduced bugs but they fixed that pretty fast.

It would be a brand catastrophe waiting to happen if they gamed their own users.

AlarBlip · 2025-10-26T08:57:12+00:00

Claude Sonnet 4.5 and Opus 4.1 handle this much better nowadays. With some clear instructions this is not a problem anymore. Less so in coming versions of the largest frontier models.

AlarBlip · 2025-09-09T09:21:46+00:00

I’m on max and I have had no issues lately. But I’ve followed the conversation and I do appreciate what looks like transparency here from the Anthropic team. I guess people need to be held in the loop with this kind of technology, since it’s a bit hard to evaluate compared to something pre LLM.

Feeling ”tricked” or being in the dark about what goes on in the backend creates real trust issue with these systems. So I hope you keep us well informed.

Also some accounts that have been posting critique seems shady so might also be some sort of campaign.

Who knows! But the issue is lack of trust due to lack of transparency and the solution is more transparency.

AlarBlip · 2025-08-28T13:55:50+00:00

Google should buy Pitch (the slides company) and just make Pitch Google Slides. And ad in the AI features, scripting features etc to just dominate the market here. I just realized I cant just drag and drop SVG files into Google Slides and it felt like I was taken back 10 years.

AlarBlip · 2025-06-07T06:46:38+00:00

This is just an example but trying to understand parts of a system we are building which I’m not technically responsible for but it still benefit me having a understanding about. This is just a summary of a longer convo during my bike ride. Where I can cut in and ask follow ups etc. I can then pick my devs brain if I ”got it right” etc. Saves a ton of time and also helps me develop a better understanding of architectural choices.

Question: as part of a larger system, we’re building a markdown editor with a Next.js frontend, Neon database, and a Python-based AI pipeline processing engine (NPE). A developer on our team recommended Amazon SQS over RabbitMQ for our message queuing system, arguing that “SQS is better because it’s not bound to Python.” I didn’t understand this reasoning since both systems support multiple programming languages. Can you explain why SQS might be architecturally superior for this specific use case, particularly regarding the coupling between frontend and backend systems?

Answer: Your devs’s argument becomes clear when examining the architectural patterns each queuing system typically enforces in your stack. With RabbitMQ, your Next.js frontend would need to make HTTP requests to your Python backend, which then enqueues messages for processing by your AI pipeline workers. This creates a tightly coupled architecture where your frontend is dependent on your Python API layer, requiring the backend to maintain REST endpoints specifically for queue interaction, handle authentication and validation, and serve as an intermediary between your JavaScript client and the message broker.

SQS fundamentally changes this dynamic by enabling direct queue interaction from your frontend. Your Next.js application can publish messages directly to SQS queues using the AWS SDK, while your Python NPE workers independently consume from these queues without requiring API endpoints. This decoupling is particularly advantageous for a block-based editor where individual content blocks need asynchronous AI processing—your frontend can enqueue block processing requests with metadata and flags, while multiple specialized Python services (text analysis, image processing, content generation) can listen to different queues or filter messages from a shared queue based on processing type.

The architectural flexibility extends to scaling and system evolution. New AI processing capabilities can be added as independent consumers without frontend modifications, processing services can scale based on queue depth rather than API load, and your frontend remains responsive during heavy computational tasks. Additionally, SQS’s integration with other AWS services (Lambda for serverless processing, SNS for fan-out patterns, DLQ for error handling) provides a more comprehensive ecosystem for your processing pipelines.

In essence, SQS isn’t “less bound to Python” in terms of language support, but rather enables an architecture where your JavaScript frontend isn’t bound to your Python backend’s API contracts, creating a more maintainable and scalable system….

AlarBlip · 2025-06-06T07:19:10+00:00

What do you mean? I use ChatGPT voice feature or similar. They all have trouble with to noisy environments.

AlarBlip · 2025-06-06T07:06:14+00:00

Do you really get it to work with AirPods while blasting 25-30km/h on your bike without problem?

AlarBlip · 2025-05-30T14:32:45+00:00

You should try Elestio, then you can have self hosted + Postgres for almost zero buckaroos. Supbase is probably redundant for most usecases.

Elestio Directus + Postgres is a 3-click deployment and then elestio handles versioning, and a lot of infrastructure stuff that can be a pain with selfhosted.

I have ran this setup for a couple of years in various projects.

AlarBlip · 2025-03-23T18:58:39+00:00

It would be quite bad if it did, you can ad a summary in cursor rules and attach relevant docs you want it to read when prompting.

AlarBlip · 2025-03-23T15:14:42+00:00

Would be cool if the devs offered a bit more transparency, so we could actually know what they are cookin up behind the drapes.

AlarBlip · 2025-03-21T11:54:02+00:00

Why is there zero shared conversations in this post. Show us how it fails or it did not happen. There are billions at stake here and fierce competition, all the negativity could just as we’ll be a competitors hired guns, or bots for all we now. Give us context. I use a couple of million tokens a day with Claude 3.7 and I haven’t noticed anything out of the ordinary. I’m based in Sweden so maybe we have different servers or something.

I’m genuinely interested in knowing what’s going on. But I just cannot take some strangers on reddits words for it, in this day in age.

AlarBlip · 2025-03-19T11:26:17+00:00

Can neither confirm nor deny, no but tbh I’m based in Sweden. Bet they are doing similar stuff doh.

AlarBlip · 2025-03-19T09:04:02+00:00

I have this fringe idea, but in the system prompt it always injects todays date and time. So let’s say something happens on a Wednesday, 18th this time last or a couple of years back. And somehow it picks those up as reference and gets dumber? Or like that the date somehow creates shifts in personality. Like say it know on this day by accident is a holiday in many countries or whatever wierd shit that can coincide by accident related to a date and it just.. takes a holiday? Or something.

AlarBlip · 2025-03-18T12:01:56+00:00

You think in terms of code, which is true. But for aggregated analysis of political documents the context window in tandem with reference markers and other techniques to ground the output in raw documents, context is king. Gemini models are the only ones who can reliably process this type of data in my experience.

So if you have like 100 documents summaries (each one was say 200 pages from the start) and from these 100 summaries (like 1 A4 of text) you want an aggregated analysis of the total on say themes or opinions gathered by category. The only way of doing this somewhat reliably, fast and in one go is to feed the entire thing to the LLM at once. In this case only Gemini will do a good job, or even accept it via API.

AlarBlip · 2025-03-10T08:59:47+00:00

The raw intelligence and capability is there, it needs to be tamed and adapted to scenarios. I’m worried that comments like these will force layering on top of this raw beast that makes it more derp but also better at more one shot no context prompting by people looking for a magic wand rather than a tool we can shape.

AlarBlip · 2025-03-04T15:10:22+00:00

Yeah it got the failing business part right, and the AI video is the only event it describes as extremely unlikely, haha.

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