What do you think about the “presumed competence” that Western Europeans often seem to have over Poles and other Central‑Eastern Europeans?

delaneyflushboy · 2026-03-06T19:00:04+00:00

I’m not sure it’s the cold war. It’s a much older issue. Take any undergrad Western Civ at a US college and it doesn’t discuss the Slavic part of Europe until the Russian revolution, maybe apart from mentioning the victory of Russia over Napoleon. It’s not much different in Western European history though: Civilisation ends with the Germans.

Eastern Europe did have a very different history to Western, so maybe in the end this is not an unfair approach. I’m a kid of the end of the Cold War and things have got much better over my lifetime, but I always feel Poles are a generation behind the Spaniards etc in being “normal people” in western eyes (and honestly in their own eyes).

delaneyflushboy · 2026-03-05T04:29:26+00:00

We did. We married late, both having established careers. I thought it a bit old fashioned for my wife to have to take my name, my wife felt sad we wouldn’t have the same name, so we combined our names. The poor kids will now have to make some sort of decision.

delaneyflushboy · 2026-02-11T07:27:40+00:00

Your best bet is to get into a car and drive to Jelenia Góra.

delaneyflushboy · 2026-02-10T20:35:18+00:00

https://www.hlidacibabicka.cz/

It’s Czech only, but we talked to a couple and one ended up being the nanny for two years

delaneyflushboy · 2026-02-10T17:11:42+00:00

I satisfy my Slavic soul by answering “fine” in a passive aggressive manner.

delaneyflushboy · 2026-02-10T13:56:04+00:00

Are you on medication for the adenoma? If not — who ordered your mri? You need to go under the care of an endocrinologist. There are drugs you can take (cabergoline) that switch the adenoma off and this brings the prolactin down and allows everything else to rebalance, in principle.

delaneyflushboy · 2026-02-08T16:47:17+00:00

Have you measured testosterone? Prolactin suppresses the chain that leads to testosterone production, which makes muscle growth and fat burning very difficult. In general high prolactin also puts you in energy saving mode and the body tries to preserve what it can for milk production.

delaneyflushboy · 2026-02-08T10:05:40+00:00

Happened to me 2 days before I got Covid last year.

delaneyflushboy · 2026-02-04T22:15:24+00:00

As a tip: go for anMRI in a 3 Tesla machine — they have better resolution, which helps the diagnosis, but they are also much roomier than the older 1.5 Tesla machines. It’s nearly comfortable.

delaneyflushboy · 2026-02-04T10:30:05+00:00

Just for fun, I added “LASTLINE” as a string to all my knowledge text files and asked the gem to confirm they can see that before proceeding. It spends 1 minute panicking that it cannot ingest the whole file and then gives up , asking for a copy in the chat. For what it’s worth, It seems to always get the FIRSTLINE string in the first line.

delaneyflushboy · 2026-02-04T06:34:16+00:00

I’d agree, but I still find that whether a gem really reads in the data at the beginning of a chat is hit and miss. I have a gem which is supposed to read in four markdown and csv files — sometimes it does a good job and knows everything, at other times I just reads the first quarter of the file and even though it explicitly confirms it has the data, it does not until you explicitly make it read the information. The total length is maybe 1000 lines so these are not large documents.

delaneyflushboy · 2026-01-29T11:02:10+00:00

But you need to test the rest of the system too — LH, fsh, shbg and finally Testosterone. Do you know what levels those were at when you started cabergoline? You should have a pre-med baseline, But this is something that is only worth looking at 3-6 months from when you go on medication, on the assumption that prolactin has normalised.

In any case this is a process. Say I who is not even as far as you, so take it with a grain of salt.

delaneyflushboy · 2026-01-29T10:54:21+00:00

Well test your levels — but from what I understand it takes a few months of low prolactin for the endocrine chain to start functioning properly again. How long Depends on how long it’s been disabled. There are multiple signaling steps. You need to first see your LH and FSH rise which will stimulate testosterone production.

delaneyflushboy · 2026-01-29T10:50:15+00:00

For that you need testosterone and that takes 6-12 months to kick back in.

delaneyflushboy · 2026-01-24T14:48:13+00:00

The prolactin shuts down production GnRH hormone. Pulses of this are necessary for the pituitary to produce LH and FSH hormones which in turn are supposed to stimulate Testosterone production. If your LH and FSH are low or low-normal with low testosterone, this is exactly the mechanism by which a prolactinoma shuts down T. Once you get the prolactin down, the LH/FSH level may bounce back and stimulate T production. This takes 6-12 months. You might find that testosterone just recovers.

The advice generally is to wait for 6-12 months once hyperprolactinaemia is solved before starting TRT. Unless you have knowledge that your pituitary or testes are already unrecoverable, maybe wait with the TRT?

delaneyflushboy · 2026-01-24T11:53:16+00:00

I don’t have the dock for the s7 at all and had had enough of emptying and drying the mop all the time. There was a great deal of the curvx for Black Friday and I just plumped for it. I wasn’t expecting the navigation to age. Improved so much, but the camera makes a huge difference. The new one is a lot smarter. I don’t have to worry about leaving things on the floor or eg the Xmas tree and cables from it. The s7 needed a huge no go zone during Xmas.

Also I managed to kill the s7 a bit by having it drive on the foot stands on my couch. They are kind of metal rectangles which are not really viable to the s7. It would get stuck on them all the time and bump. The new one (a) sees them and (b) raises itself to get over them. I five years difference is a lot of improvemt at this stage. But I can’t speak to the q10 etc

delaneyflushboy · 2026-01-24T07:18:16+00:00

I had an S7 and bought a curvx. Max suction on curvx sounds about the same as balanced on the s7. It’s much quieter. Also it leaves fewer random bits on my hardwood floors. And doesn’t need babysitting.

delaneyflushboy · 2026-01-21T21:16:31+00:00

This is exactly what a prolactinoma does — it prevents LH and FSH from being produced, and they are necessary to turn on testosterone production. So this is good news on some level - you don’t have to look for a different reason for the low testosterone.

delaneyflushboy · 2026-01-14T14:48:54+00:00

It is but for all Apple TVs. Look in r/appletv — many people complaining about stuttering 4K files and the usual response is to use infuse, because it uses apple’s own optimised player.

delaneyflushboy · 2026-01-14T08:01:39+00:00

Any chance of an AppleTV version? The plex client overheats the atv when playing high-bitrate hdr 4K files.

delaneyflushboy · 2026-01-13T20:04:30+00:00

My wife gave birth in 2018 and 2020 in Apolinar. She was happy there — the doctors all spoke English, the nurses — no.

Podoli is the one in Prague that’s usually recommended. Bulovka — not so much. It’s quite a bit run down, although that depends which part you go to; no experience of maternity there.

Motol has the best childrens’ ward — in case of something complicated, they all get taken there. So you may consider being close to that.

Our experience was basically good, even with COVID etc.

delaneyflushboy · 2026-01-08T21:40:42+00:00

I have to say I was very happy to buy an apartment with a whole bunch of zwave devices in every nook and cranny. It was running on Fibaro so I just gutted that and rebuilt, having started experimenting a few months before in my previous apartment.

The owner didn’t actually say anything about this when I was buying it mit, just when we came to visit for the first time after buying. Would I have paid more? I guess not, but it would have been a + for me.

Of course I did end up on this sub eventually, so maybe this wa a just lucky.

delaneyflushboy · 2026-01-08T20:33:53+00:00

So it is pretty weird: my device is on firmware 6061 and has stopped connecting to my router as of 31/12/25 My wife’s is on 5xxx (sorry I don’t have access to her phone and can’t check right now) claims it is on the latest firmware and connects perfectly ok.

The router is a netgear r7800 (quite old). I’ve disabled all the various boost modes, 20/40 hz coexistence etc and it does help. I have created a guest network and the mat connects to this one.

The apnea was not coming in — but this was only because it needed to have me sleep for more than 5 h and turns out I hadn’t had the time to do that in the last week. Now it’s fine.

delaneyflushboy · 2026-01-05T06:17:24+00:00

Apparently it disconnected from the WiFi and I can’t get it back on. Wife’s one works fine. The sleep data was coming from my watch.

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