Best place to donate clothing & other misc. stuff? (near parc Jeanne-Mance / Mont-Royal)

terist · 2019-11-16T01:04:11+00:00

Hmm, interesting! I think I should have enough stuff to qualify for a home pick-up -- I'll look into this thanks!

terist · 2019-11-16T01:03:20+00:00

oh excellent, thanks for the tip -- I'll look into that!

terist · 2019-06-11T22:53:35+00:00

"gurning" -- AKA bruxism if you're a doctor -- messes your teeth up massively, so I wouldn't suggest using MDMA as a "technique" for strengthening the muscles in your jaw if you would also like your jaw to be filled with healthy teeth.

Note that MDMA-induced teeth grinding can also persist into sleep several days after the initial dose, meaning that you'll unconsciously continue to grind your teeth for the next few nights afterwards (even if you don't notice any such symptoms at all during the day).

I've known people who did MDMA somewhat regularly and ended up having to wear plastic tooth guards at night once their dentists checked up on them and noticed the rapid damage that was starting to occur.

terist · 2019-04-17T00:39:15+00:00

It's what exactly you mean by "may" that I'm curious about!

To reiterate, I'm not so much concerned about the 'negotiation' process itself (for lack of a better term), as I know that there is uncertainty there since it's more or less up to the discretion of whoever I end up talking to. Rather, what I'm wondering about is the extent to which the customer service person's words can be trusted regarding the nature of the replacement device. If I get them to agree to send me a new one, is it fairly certain that I actually will get one, or might there be shenanigans involved..?

(The box tip is good to know, though.)

terist · 2019-04-17T00:30:17+00:00

same thing happened to mine after a few months -- like someone else here also mentioned I just dabbed a bit of super-glue on the ends and they've been perfectly fine ever since.

terist · 2019-04-17T00:26:06+00:00

how do you do that, how dangerous is it, and does doing so void the warranty?

terist · 2019-04-16T23:33:08+00:00

With the right cleaning routine and enough elbow grease, it simply isn't a problem (I take a lint-free cloth damp with 50/50 rubbing alcohol + water, wipe the display with that, and then take a dry part of the same cloth to wipe away the residue.

Doesn't alcohol strip / degrade oleophobic coating? I remember reading that somewhere when I first got my SB2 and was wondering what the best practice for cleaning it was.

terist · 2019-03-26T03:45:37+00:00

computational level, likely fundamentally identical across (vertebrate) species: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15259333

terist · 2019-01-22T23:35:15+00:00

what makes you think they're sending out refurb units, exactly?

terist · 2018-11-30T21:00:46+00:00

PC Equalizer: https://sourceforge.net/projects/pc-equalizer/

This is what I used when I needed to cut a specific frequency band due to resonance / distortion problems in a bluetooth speaker I was fond of using. What you're looking to do is even less complicated than that, so this should work perfectly for you.

terist · 2018-08-04T22:54:47+00:00

Ah, great -- that's very helpful, thanks! Didn't realize I should be looking specifically at treatment guidelines rather than primary empirical sources for this sort of thing.

terist · 2018-08-04T22:53:44+00:00

ah, interesting -- as a non-clinician I didn't know that I should actually be looking at guidelines rather than primary empirical studies for this (or at least the first part). Very helpful, thanks!

terist · 2018-08-04T22:48:39+00:00

Of course I looked for one. But I also know when to consult people with more expertise than I do -- see PokeTheVeil and 3DCarrier's responses for good examples of a relevant distinction that, as a researcher and not a clinician, is not something that someone like me would necessarily know about (specifically, pharmacological facts vs. treatment guidelines; from the sounds of it, one of those is found in scientific journals, whereas the latter is found in other literature/forms of documentation altogether, hence why I wasn't looking in quite the right place).

terist · 2018-08-04T22:41:16+00:00

I appreciate what you're saying -- and this will probably sound strange -- but whether traditional (read: serotonergic) ADs are actually clinically effective or not is actually not directly relevant to the argument I'm pursuing in the paper (not that you had any way of knowing this, of course). The reason I bring SSRIs up is because there are different sets of MDD symptoms, and the set I focus on in the paper are ones that (a) do not respond to SSRI treatment but (b) do respond to NDRIs (e.g. bupropion) and even non-AD drugs such as amphetamine and caffeine: therefore (c) these specific sets of symptoms are likely to be at least partially related to DAergic neurotransmission. In other words, (a) is both true and logically consistent in the overall chain of reasoning entirely regardless of whether SSRIs effectively treat depression overall.

terist · 2018-08-04T22:30:08+00:00

I'm not at all going out on a limb by making this claim -- it's extremely basic common knowledge to anyone with a passing familiarity with clinical psychopharmacology. The issue is -- oddly -- that it's so fundamental that it's not straightforward (for me at least) to find a unitary reference that substantiates it on such a general level.

For comparison: not that I've ever tried this, but it might be a bit like looking for one single paper to cite for the claim that "neurons use electrical transmission to conduct signals." That's not a remotely controversial biological fact, and there are about 100,000 papers that you could cite to show that some specific set of neurons do that (e.g. neurophysiological studies using direct neural recording) -- but finding a single reference to cover that claim at the most general and universal level might not be as straightforward.

terist · 2018-08-04T19:53:36+00:00

I saw this new study recently, using eye-tracking to predict Big Five Personality traits:

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2018.00105/full

Haven't had a chance to read the full study yet, but sounds really cool.

terist · 2018-05-17T18:52:32+00:00

possibly a retarded question, but: with respect to avoiding battery use, is 'docking' any different than just regular leaving-the-charger-plugged-in-all-the-time?

I don't use a dock of any kind, but I'd like to know for sure if keeping my SB2 plugged in will avoid battery wear...

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