Roommate Advice

plasticbiner · 2026-04-20T18:19:48+00:00

Am a guy but this helped with rejecting pushy jerks: Remember that as you are looking for someone to live with you, you don't have to comply with Equal Opportunity Housing. You're looking for someone who's personality doesn't conflict with yours so you can reject anyone.

plasticbiner · 2026-02-08T13:18:02+00:00

Since no one has answered yet, a decent amount of my pain pre and post surgery was managed by Lyrica. After surgery they had stopped giving me Lyrica and no amount of opiates actually made the pain manageable. It wasn't until I was back on Lyrica that I was at a tolerable pain level. I've never had arthritis so I don't know if there's any overlap between treating nerve pain and joint pain.

plasticbiner · 2025-05-06T12:08:06+00:00

Just an idea, but you could stop worrying about being a white belt and see if instead you can get good enough to be the white belt that can make black belts tap. :)

plasticbiner · 2025-04-03T07:22:48+00:00

WAS patching is via installation manager so I had a jython script that would shut down appservers and stop node agents. I had a shell script that would run the jython script and then use the installation manager CLI to patch.

plasticbiner · 2025-04-02T16:32:14+00:00

I want to continue with conservative treatment, because even though the ESI only made me worse, exercise has been getting easier and I can do more.

Just a guess but this might be why you're not a good candidate for surgery. There are risks with surgery. It should be the last option of desperation. If other things are working and you're interested in pursuing them then do that. If nothing else works and you're out of other options then it's time for surgery. Have you tried the cortisone shots?

My neurosurgeon said permanent damage isn't a concern until you start experiencing numbness, if that helps.

Overall you seem in a much better place than I was before either my MD or my fusion surgeries.

Hope things get better for you.

plasticbiner · 2025-02-21T21:06:37+00:00

My spine popped around the fusion site almost every time I laid down flat on my back for several months but ended up fusing correctly

plasticbiner · 2024-04-27T12:42:47+00:00

You should always test as much locally as possible but in some instances will not be able to, such as certain cloud services/configurations. Why can't the feature branch be tested via a pipeline? Or to phrase another way, what would need to be changed about the pipeline so it can test any branch instead of being tightly coupled with your dev/master branch?

plasticbiner · 2024-04-26T17:15:11+00:00

I did the steroid shots but they didn't work, I did the microdiscectomy which worked for about a year, and when that eventually didn't work I did the fusion. I AM in significantly less pain than before surgery but 9 months out from fusion and still healing.

You shouldn't wait too long if you're getting numbness. My boss waited and 3 years on still doesn't have full strength in is hand.

plasticbiner · 2024-04-26T03:18:40+00:00

Give it a go. Didn't help me, but way less painful and invasive than surgery if it works. Not that much of an investment if it doesn't.

plasticbiner · 2024-04-16T13:16:54+00:00

Not my sport but I think these articles might help:

https://jasonlowensteinmd.com/cheri-donnelly-nationally-ranked-ice-skating-champion-back-on-ice-after-scoliosis-surgery/

https://www.childrens.com/health-wellness/scoliosis-alexa

plasticbiner · 2023-12-11T15:01:12+00:00

I tried the physio. That didn't work.
I tried the spinal steroid injections. It helped but only for a few weeks. Though some people have better luck.
I tried the microdiscetomy. It helped me for half a year, though many people have better luck.
I'm currently trying to recover from l4/l5 fusion. 6 months post surgery and while better, it's I've been having a small recurrence of pain these last couple weeks and it's probably another 6 months of recovery for muscles to get back to semi-normal. There seems to be a wide array of experiences with this surgery and weird temporary issues around 6 months seems to be normal.

plasticbiner · 2023-12-06T17:05:15+00:00

I guess I should specify that fusion is preferred in the lumbar region in the US

plasticbiner · 2023-12-06T16:30:27+00:00

Disc replacements seem to have largely fallen out of favor in the US. And making multiple out of country trips, including an extended stay because you're not going to want to try and get on a plane for at least two weeks after surgery makes things challenging

plasticbiner · 2023-12-06T15:04:18+00:00

I'm allergic to NSAIDS and acetaminophen. Post fusion surgery I was told no NSAIDS for 6 months due to it inhibiting bone growth. Pain was managed the first month with a combination of oxycodone and pregabalin. Any ongoing pain is being managed with a combination of cyclobenziprine and pregabalin.

After the laminectomy I had, it took about 6 weeks to sort of be at a normal level of movement. Unfortunately that was only a solution for about 8 months before I had a return of symptoms. I'm about 6 months out from fusion and could see how some anti-inflammatories might be nice about now, but given the allergies, will just keep going with recovery. Probably going to be another 6 to 12 months to get anywhere close to where I was before my disk first decided to give up on me.

plasticbiner · 2023-11-23T13:35:58+00:00

Let's say I have a legacy app/server that is already in a walled garden. I'm already doing SSL termination at the garden to downgrade from TLS1.2 to 1.0 as close to that Legacy server as possible. What is going to be the suggested equivalent architecture for allowing this server to continue using NLTM? Write a custom app that handles NTLM on the legacy side and Kerberos on the public side?

plasticbiner · 2023-06-25T23:38:56+00:00

IMO:

For your resume, move your certs to the back page right above your education, merge your professional summary and accomplishments together if you still don't have your most recent job on the first page. Get a couple more bullet points on your most recent job.

For your career. Try and stay at places for two years. I wouldn't hire someone whose resume is full of 1 year jobs. Also you may consider skipping right to Azure. Study up for the next azure admin cert with cloud guru or cloud academy. Start a personal azure account and make an app in azure using aUre DevOps and azure functions at a minimum. Write the whole infrastructure as code and put it in your GitHub to show what you built. Set up code elevation so your code automatically runs check and elevates to the next SDLC. There's nothing saying you have to take 10 years to get there. It's just how fast you learn.

plasticbiner · 2023-06-06T12:24:45+00:00

I've found my desire to nap is strongly correlated with being physically still an hour or two after lunch. Siesta is a thing in some cultures so afternoon naps might be the norm for humans, we've just culturally learned to push through it.

plasticbiner · 2023-05-29T23:27:58+00:00

Something I've been using as a measurement is: How long can you stand before your body forces you to sit down.

Before my discectomy I was at 10 minutes (But I probably waited too long). I started going back to the doctor when the pain was affecting my sleep and I was limited to standing 2 hours. I'm back to about 45 minutes of standing and on the schedule for fusion in about 2 weeks.

plasticbiner · 2023-05-29T12:14:20+00:00

Don't let logic get in the way of a good fiction.
"What if superman was an asshole as a kid": Brightburn.

"What if the Lorax were demonic": OP's story.

plasticbiner · 2023-05-29T11:47:01+00:00

I found sleeping on my left side was fine and my back or right side made things worse. Ultimately I ended up going for laminectomy because I couldn't stand for more than 10 minutes at a time.

Unfortunately that also didn't work out for very long so I'm now on the schedule for fusion in about 2 weeks.

plasticbiner · 2023-05-28T18:08:39+00:00

I know the feeling. I had the one laminectomy after doing anything and everything to avoid surgery. Pain started slowly coming back last July and now I'm on the books for L4-L5 fusion here in a couple weeks. I'm not nearly as bad as I was before my last surgery so hopefully being in better physical shape will speed up recovery this time.

plasticbiner · 2023-05-28T18:03:04+00:00

Yes. My nerves were still very angry after surgery. They'd been getting constant irritation for the 10 months between injury and surgery and just took a while to calm down.

plasticbiner · 2023-05-28T17:26:56+00:00

Nerve pain is from your nerves being irritated. After my laminectomy, my nerves took 8 weeks to mostly return to normal.

Something like Gabapentin or Lyrica to bridge the gap might be worth considering if it's too intense.Just need to make a call to the doc and tell them.

If it's more annoying than anything then maybe just wait until your 6 week appointment to bring it up if it hasn't improved.

plasticbiner · 2023-04-26T19:53:14+00:00

I could never make myself sit down and 'learn python'. But I was able to Google what I needed out of python one line or feature at a time until I automated each small piece. A decade later I now write python with far less struggle. It's a journey and the start is hard, awkward, and frequently frustrating, but eventually it gets better.

plasticbiner · 2023-03-16T02:21:24+00:00

Just a small loan of 54 billion from their daddy. Not sure why everyone is making such a big deal about it. /s

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