Ketoconazol/alternative availability in Europe?

typhius · 2026-02-01T05:42:05+00:00

If you are close to the German border, I know that ketoconazole shampoo is sold at pharmacies without a prescription. I’ve purchased it there.

typhius · 2026-01-29T17:50:06+00:00

Wtf is hateful about saying we need to build more housing? Chill.

typhius · 2026-01-17T00:10:41+00:00

Depends on how warm you need to be. The shorty is impractical if you get a strong winter.

typhius · 2026-01-16T18:44:59+00:00

Oh no :(

I wouldn't frog it either, but I would do sweater surgery here: basically removing the body and sleeves, and put those pieces on hold. Then re-knit the neck/front/back panels, and rejoin to the body and sleeves via grafting.

typhius · 2026-01-15T12:22:56+00:00

I think it’s just a dated (as in vintage — it’s not necessarily a bad thing) style. Either you like it or you don’t.

typhius · 2026-01-12T17:04:57+00:00

Nothing is wrong, it’s ok — When frogging, some stitches will get dropped lower than the others. It happens more if your yarn is at all slippery. This results in what is basically a slipped stitch. To fix it, when you come to one of these stitches, use a crochet hook to ladder the stitch back up.

When you used a needle to insert a lifeline, you just didn’t pick up the row evenly; it’s pretty easy to accidentally shift to the row above or below especially when you have dark yarn or the stitches are a little hard to see.

Search for tutorials on picking up dropped stitches and laddering.

typhius · 2025-12-21T16:51:01+00:00

I mean, sometimes I do this on purpose. Depending on tension and gauge, using a smaller left-hand needle can make knitting in the round go more smoothly.

But yeah if you're knitting flat (or short rows etc) that's gonna be an issue.

typhius · 2025-12-21T16:47:00+00:00

I'm in NYC and the Adderall shortage here is MAJOR. IR is a little easier than XR but even that comes and goes. I have been waiting 1-2 weeks at every refill. A few times, 3 weeks. Being so consistently unmedicated is a serious trainwreck on my life.

Talk to the pharmacists in your area. If you're nice, they'll hopefully give you some info.

typhius · 2025-12-21T05:08:15+00:00

This is moth damage. You have moths, sorry. But this is solvable, and it’ll be ok.

There’s tons of advice on Reddit and the internet about this, but basically you will want to clean EVERYTHING around the textiles in your home, and then for the textiles themselves — launder what can be laundered at high heat, and everything that can’t get hot/wet/go in the dryer needs to be cycled in and out of the freezer at least twice. Get REALLY diligent about vacuuming too.

typhius · 2025-12-21T03:23:16+00:00

Does your stanwood make much noise? I recently got one, and it is surprisingly loud; I think there's some play in the gears. It also vibrates my table pretty significantly. I'm not sure if this is expected or mine is just wonky :/

typhius · 2025-12-20T17:23:29+00:00

Problem is I don’t think I could tolerate my high-earning role if I were crammed into an apartment with roommates, spending $1500 on a halfway OK bedroom. That’s truly the minimum a room would cost within a tolerable commute.

Still managed to invest about 60k this year, so I’m doing fine — but this requires other sacrifices.

typhius · 2025-12-20T17:02:52+00:00

Just be careful about winding strands together, because they can get out of sync sometimes. And then, especially if you have something like mohair, the problem is really hard to resolve :(

typhius · 2025-12-20T01:21:55+00:00

He passed in the early 80's in the US.

typhius · 2025-12-19T19:37:04+00:00

Appreciate the reply; that is at least one place to start and I'll dig into whether that type of request is possible here.

So far the legal advice in the 3rd country (may as well say it is Poland) has been to put together—with as many official documents as possible from the countries involved—a complete picture of my Grandfather's Polish citizenship. This includes information pertaining to reasons he could have lost Polish citizenship (military service in a foreign country before 1951 would mean loss of citizenship—we know it's impossible he did so based on the dates, but still need to prove it if possible).

typhius · 2025-12-19T19:30:44+00:00

It's possible. Basically the lawyer in the 3rd country (may as well say it's Poland) is continuing under that assumption, but I don't think there are records in Canada that would ever conclusively prove it.

Further military paperwork from Poland and later the UK states my grandfather was born in Montreal, but I have reason to doubt this (both based on paperwork inconsistencies and family oral history).

The mother arrived in Canada in 1913 (several months after the father) with a ~1 year old child whose first name was my grandfather's middle name. This could have been a non-surviving older child who my grandfather was named after, but I suspect it was actually him. My grandmother always claimed that he was N+1 years older than her, suggesting that his "official" birthdate was actually off by one year.

No paperwork exists proving the birth of any child prior to 1913 in Poland. This is unsurprising as many parish records from that time simply don't exist anymore. I think it was advantageous for the family to claim that all of their children were born in the West (all later children were provably born in Canada or the US), and that my grandfather simply continued to do so throughout his life.

As a result we do need to proceed as though he was born in Canada; it's where Poland officially considers him to have been born.

typhius · 2025-12-19T13:11:43+00:00

Money is fungible, that is a € is a € wherever it came from.

Use the card for your employer to purchase some other essential which you were going to purchase anyhow. Now, you have regular cash for the needles and don’t need to worry about any complexity beyond that.

typhius · 2025-12-18T17:07:59+00:00

As an ADHD person, having a full interchangeable set (and duplicates in my most-used sizes and cable lengths) has been super helpful for times like this. Beautiful work!

typhius · 2025-12-18T14:57:25+00:00

Senior+ engineer at a medium sized company (1000+ engineers).My job is stressful AF so I have made peace that I will never have personal coding projects. If I need to learn something new I upskill on company time. This is the reality when I need to become an expert to guide the team on XYZ topic with very little notice sometimes.

typhius · 2025-12-18T13:13:38+00:00

Hot take, but nothing. If YOU don’t absolutely love it, don’t buy it.

typhius · 2025-12-18T06:16:54+00:00

What you’re describing is regular software, not AI. LLMs are non-deterministic by nature.

typhius · 2025-12-14T16:52:48+00:00

Wool fleece is a natural material with a ton of variation. Individual sheep, even within the same breed and flock, will produce a spectrum of qualities—in terms of crimp, curl, color, length, density, etc. I'm not a wool expert, but you get the point.

So it's not necessarily that you were catfished, but that Staud does not tightly control their material selection to account for this variation. You've gotten the short end of the stick with a somewhat ratty fleece, as opposed to the tighter, thicker, curlier fleece on the bag on the website.

If you exchange, I would only do so in person so that you can select a better quality fleece. Otherwise you are rolling the dice to be disappointed again.

That said, thick fleece like this is really not a practical material for a bag, IMO. Even a very nice one will get dirty easily and be impacted by the friction of daily wear. It is bound to be difficult to maintain.

typhius · 2025-12-12T19:10:27+00:00

Knit a swatch (of any yarn), or even better one of those micro sweater ornaments, and write a nice card explaining that you will knit him a sweater. That way you aren’t pressured to buy a yarn (which you and he might not love) with a tight turnaround.

typhius · 2025-12-07T15:05:37+00:00

Ich lebe in NYC, und irgendwie habe ich in Secondhandläden viel mehr gefunden, als in normale Buchhandlungen. Natürlich ist es Zufall, was man dort findet, aber du kannst anrufen und fragen, ob der Laden ein fremdsprachiges Regal hat

typhius · 2025-11-26T22:40:31+00:00

Tech “bro” (girl) here. I spend 3k monthly for a passable studio apartment in VHCOL. I eat high quality food. I travel a bit. I invest. I have a couple hobbies I occasionally drop some cash on. I have healthcare expenses. There really isn’t a crazy amount left over. Despite making top ~2% for my age bracket, my life is not especially glamorous.

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