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I quite fond of Winton and Ellis Marsalis album Joe Cool's Blues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0_gYNtTTgA&list=PL9KZ1X7EqS... which of course also includes the classic Peanuts theme song.

Ah, the non-problems of young people! What you say is true, but effective repair tooth pastes might be quite interesting for people that already have thin enamel, worn away enamel, crowns, reduced gums, etc. I hope the effect size is big enough for one of the substances mentioned here …

> If this were effective, our bodies would probably be doing it already.

Naaah, this is not how evolution works. Tooth decay was not as big of a problem for our ancestors than it is for us (more sugar and acidic soft drinks) and tooth decay becomes more of a problem for older people that already reproduced making good teeth above a certain age uninteresting from an evolutionary standpoint. (And mayebe instead of better teeth we learnded to feed grandparents soft porridge to keep them around longer for babysitting duties ;-) (see the usefulness of aunts in elephants). Just because you like to keep your teeth, doesn‘t mean that nature cares.

Nice video from the well known channel Technology Connections: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zb7Bs98KmnY => It's complicated. Yes, there was a cartel, but it was not all bad. There were legitimate reasons to go for 1000h light bulbs.

So maybe the German "Erfahrung" does not map 1:1 to the concept of "Experience". But maybe it is not so much a lack of concept in the language, but something that is related to particularly American hire-and-fire culture, where every employee is an easily replaceable cog in a machine, whereas I think that the full depth of many tasks is not easily conveyed in a documented standard operating procedure, but often needs the actual experience in doing things often. (This is of course an over generalization, because we seldom hear form the established well run smaller companies. You hear much more about dysfunctional companies and dissatisfied employees on the Internet.)

To paraphrase your comment: "Connecting the ritual of prayer to another task that you want to accomplish, helps in establishing consistency in doing that other task." Yes, that is a useful tool, to achieve the daily consistency that avoids the "Montage Fallacy". (And it even can elevate your comment to fantastic ;-) )

Less religiously inclined people can easily adapt this concept to other things that they do daily.

Now you are not just promoting prayer but giving a useful analogy. I was a little bit fighty yesterday and perceived a manipulative ploy in your original comment, when it maybe was just a little bit of accidental omission, because coherently and concisely stating something in writing is hard. The latter is something I am also struggling with. And maybe I was going hard on you because you started off with a well stated argument.

I like your Chinese culture comparison and the Englisch language has such a word, too. It's "experience". True, you also can have "an experience", but generally it is used in the sense of "having experience" which is having accumulated mastery over time. In German it is "Erfahrung" which maps 1:1 to experience. I like, that Chinese, Englisch and German have common ground, showing that the "human experience" is something quite universal across cultures.

No, this is not really a fantastic comment because the comment initially supports the thesis of the article, which is "change is slow progress, not a burst of activity" and it does this quite well with a biblical comparison, but then it veers off to "daily praying, helps with success in other areas", which is a totally different thesis. That's proselytizing instead of commenting on the article.

And your "+1, fantastic comment" smells, too; because you do not address the content of the comment, but only the original thesis of the posted article. So it should have been "+1, fantastic article". You don't even say what's so good in the comment that you praise.

Is this an attack by missionaries with day jobs in marketing? :-)

(And it is not really a fantastic article either, because it has a nice start with the Rocky comparison and a nice ending (sans post script) that fits the start but the middle is a muddle just like this run-on sentence.)

> That said, there are indeed a lot more things that are in general better in Germany than in India, and this rant of mine was the result of a year of frustrated dealings with German bureaucracy (not that that makes any of the points I raised invalid though).

And as a German let me say that you are totally right, when it comes to the bureaucracy. While most of the time the bureaucracy doesn't fell too bad for standard German citizens, I can well imagine that it is horrible for you and that it feels really oldfashioned.

All other points are not wrong but debatable, which dhruvrajvanshi already did. The problems that our nations face are both abundant but also quite different.

As an aside: I also perceived you're post as too blunt and slightly unfair, just as some of the people in the sub-reddits probably felt. On the other hand sub-reddits are full of awful people and I can imagine that you have to deal with a lot of rudeness and prejudices yourself. I could understand where you were coming from and understood why you expressed yourself in this way after beuing frustrated by the German Bureaucracy. The quoted clarification was useful.

Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) is a pseudoscientific approach to communication, personal development and psychotherapy, that first appeared in Richard Bandler and John Grinder's 1975 book The Structure of Magic I. NLP asserts that there is a connection between neurological processes (neuro-), language (linguistic) and acquired behavioral patterns (programming), and that these can be changed to achieve specific goals in life. [1]

Fascinating, people speculating about how people think and can be manipulated are applying those unporven highly suspectable "theories" to computers, which probably function totally different, but appear to show similarities.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuro-linguistic_programming

edit: Oh, I just now saw "Output". So ChatGTP tries to steer you to become a NLP Practicioner :-)

> look at listings of new apartments

And even that is fraught with problems, because in my neck of the woods (Germany) we generally do not buy houses/appartments furnished (and renting appartments furnished is also an exception and not the norm. Even kitchens are empty rooms without cabinets and appliances.).

Edit: Even though the AirB'n'B methodology is not perfect, I agree with some of the conclusions. Just like radio/tv has smoothed out local accents and dialects within a country, the internet produces global trends. This is not all bad.

How can you say that on the one hand information about self harm should be withheld because GPT is knwon to be wrong and on the other hand advocate that this is not necessary when it comes to information about drug use? Following wrong information about drug use is just as dangerous as following wrong information about self harm. Of course you are right, that the question wheter to give information or not is complicated.

I tend to think that erring on the site of giving information that is not always right is better than giving no information. (And inlcuding information about not doing it, seeking help and about being cautious because GPT could be wrong, etc.)

For copyright there has to be a minimum amount of creativity involved before the law applies. Small snippets of PII would not overcome that hurdle but these small pieces of PII are protected like you describe in the UK and the EU (GDPR).

The rights grante by the GDPR cannot be signed awy by a licensing agreement, but the can be overruled by other laws (e.g. mandatory retention times for tax purposes).

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-wpHszfnJns&t=1627s

“A terrible guide to the terrible terminology of U.S. Health Insurance” by Brian David Gilbert

Typing fast is useful but not necessarily enhancing productivity all that much. Even writing documentation is more about thinking than typing fast. Documentation must be concise and understandable.

The author is talking about hiring interviews like it’s some kind of multiple choice test. Interviews should be more like essays. Of course it is not that important that the interviewee knows the exact definition of ACID but they should certainly know what it is about. Knowing about ACID and the problem space it comes from enables people to think about problems that let to the ACID concept as a solution to said problems. It shows that the interviewee might know enough to look things up and might be capable of selecting the right answer in the reference material/search engine results. Knowing the exact definition of ACID and nothing else means that somebody can memorize things which is useful but not useful on its own. You want people that can find a solution and have an somewhat informed opinion about it, not people who can just memorize things.

So asking about ACID is a fine thing, but expecting a text book answer is silly.

Edit: ivanhoe said it better in their post and I changed my phrasing to be less inflammatory. (My point of different hiring mind sets on different continents is not the point.)

I have only experience with one but the Ultrabreath works nicely.

The exercise is for breathing in. You probably could add resistance by pursing your lips but with a device results will be more reproducible. I have an Ultrabreath (made in UK) from Amazon that seems to be the simple analog equivalent if the fancy electronic device in the video. Now that I know that it might help with blood pressure I will try using it seriously. (Edit: spelling)

> they will let their patients and colleagues die first.

No! They will definitively not let their patients and colleagues die firs! They will prevent you from killing them!

You might believe in youRe therapy, but the vast amount if novel therapies will have (novel) adverse effects and you will haVe to supply the prove that your therapy will do less harm than doing the conventional thing. We have clinical trials to administer new therapies in a controlled and ethical way to cause the least harm. Just trying things will kill more people than it helps. The vast amount of new ideas do more harm than they help. Look at chloroquine and what a shit show it is, because everybody just tried it willy nilly. The side effect of harming Lupus patients who could not get their medicine alone caused tremendous unintended harm. And that wasn’t even harming because if administering a useless therapy with serious side effects. Move fast, fail fast and fail often aren great principles for developing software but they have no place in developing therapies. (I actually wanted to hurl swear words at you. But that helps nobody. It is true that medical research is overregulated and could be improved Bit there are reasons for that. Throwing all regulations away is just Trumpish behavior.)

I like the quit romantic explanation best, that debt in Germany has a moral component. "Debt" and "guilt" are nearly the same word, so taking on debt is a topic of moral philosophy: It's a sin ;-)

No I do not look down on Excel because it enables non-programmers to program. I look down on it, because Excel programs become an unmaintainable mess. They are hard to reason about, because they do not seperate code and representation. You can never have a nice overview of your Excel programs.

I would call the Chinese people very "enterprising". The lack of regulations / lack of enforcement of regulations leads to cutting corners for raw profit. But is this kind of deregulation not the wet dream of many American politicians? </snark>

Chinese companies are getting better and better. A desoldering device (Zhongdi) and a 3D-printer (Anycubic) I bought recently are my anecdotal examples. When looking at older Youtube reviews and at my devices, one can clearly see that problematic details very corrected or improved in later versions of the device.

Isn't this the same cylce Japan went through? At first cheap imitation, then better quality, then innovation? Wasn't "Made in Germany" first established as a British measure to warn consumers about a crappy product?

In conclusion: there are many crappy Chinese products, but not all Chinese products are crappy. The better manufactures strive for more stable costumer relationships.

This is a direct consequence of how food service employees are paid in the U.S. They have an income of next to nothing and depend on tips. Tips do not play such a large part in (most? all?) of Europe and are smaller than in the U.S., so customers that stay longer mean less work without too much pay reduction. At least that is my pet theory. I only visit the U.S. every couple of years and this year I noticed that the "standard" tip crept up to 15%-20% instead of the 10%-15% that I remember. Seems that employers are paying food service workers even less of a wage than before.

Your coments about the application workflow are very true. And I think this strengthens my argument that it is hard for open source software to enter this market. The cosultants/companies that implement these systems for hospitals would have to get together to push open source. And I guess hat it would be very hard to find enough open source developers with the domain specific knowledge. This points to a development style with a single company behind such a software. These companies are often not as "open-sourcey" when it comes to documentation as "real" open source projects. And this would make it less interesting for the above mentioned consultants/companies to band together to push open source because only that single company that mainly develops the software and does consulting for it, would profit.

My comments on software validation were perhaps not as clear as I would have liked them to be. Of course the regulators are not looking at every line of code. It would have to be the buyer that would have to look at that documentation, so that everything is in order when an FDA inspection occurs (if at all). And maybe it is wishful thinking that the developers should take validation into account while developing, because you can only do so much with an operational/functional qualification on site. Perhaps I am thinking that way because I am looking at it from the perspective of a research organization that develops some of its software in house (workflow!). Companies contracting with us certainly do want to see the validation documentation that was produced during development.

The field of medical software is very different from everyday programming. You assume that somebody is lazily pocketing money. You are probably wrong. Medical software is a highly regulated area and the software needs to be validated. There has to be proven documentation that the software functions correctly and does not endanger people or data. This is a good thing because we are dealing with sensitive privae information and the health of people. Most hospitals and open source enthusiasts do not have the time, money and expertise to do these things. Thats why they buy software from vendors and probably let the vendors do some form of additional on-site validation. It is very hard to "fail fast and fail often" in such an environment which makes development and improvment harder. (And as an aside many corporations that do software validation do it in a braindead overly bureaucratic way and produce buggy software despite validation.) One such standard that I find nicely executed and easy to understand ist GMAP5 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Automated_Manufacturing_P... Its methods work not only for automated manufacturing but can be applied to software development as well.

Edit: It would be interesting to see more open source collaboration. Maybe you do not see it that much because all the people that have the expertise do not work for the hospitals but get snatched up by the vendors? Maybe you do not see that many start ups enering this sector because while individual contracts are lucrative there are fewer customers around than for consumer apps/products?