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It also encodes ideas very inefficiently for multiple reasons. 1. It's very convoluted and it takes many more words to describe things accurately than latin and/or germanic languages; 2. Due to geographical and cultural separation from the West, the vocabulary is just not adapted to modern life, so "workarounds" need to be used to refer things that have become common in our daily lives. I can recall a humorous TV ad that made fun of this, which involved a wife asking her husband for "the thing" and him being confused about what she was referring to.

If we're to compare it to a programming language, I'd describe it as PHP ecosystem/stdlib/development practices combined with Rust syntax.

This is not as daunting as it might sound. It's somewhat similar to how a "picky" personality would think, e.g. Jerry Seinfeld's character in his sitcom. You have to be an annoying nagger in your mind, albeit without the comedically hyperbolic verbalization, obviously.

This can make you much slower at first, as you'll be debating things in your head a lot. But I find you get a lot faster once you get used to it and the "nagging" happens in a not-very-high-effort thought process.

tl;dr: perfectionism.

Of course, for specific situations, there will be known tools and processes for flushing out unknown unknowns e.g. fuzzing.

What happened to their very vocal concern over net neutrality from last year?

I disagree, there are many potential non-bog-standard decisions that are not risky and certainly better than mocking you and doing literally nothing (while still getting paid).

Also: "we don't know why this happens" and a bit of two-sided discussion is satisfactory for most people.

If it was THEIR app, they would ask about different hosting providers - and I would explain why or why not because it's my job.

That's what a good doctor should be like.

>Can't I just be curious to see what it is you mean, and perhaps learn something I don't know?

Fair enough! I think you're right to ask for sources. What I'm saying there is that I have nothing on hand that would convince you of my claim, so whether you believe me or not is left to you, and if you don't, I will concede that discussion.

Since I now know you're only asking out of interest, I guess that point is moot now.

It's certainly dangerous with regard to cognitive bias, but I have backing from an excellent doctor who has noted my results experimentally, so I am convinced of what I'm saying.

edit: I would also stress that a lot of things that many of my former doctors were skeptical about were mere symptom reports. I think I would know when my intestines hurt, yet some doctors acted like this was malingering, or a "panic attack" when really I have food allergies (but they wouldn't know that since they gave up from the get go).

2. Poster remarks "Poor expert"

3. I make a retaliatory post highlighting how ludicrous it is to say that the expert who mocked the client is also the victim somehow

Your "OMG look who's aggressive" deliberately ignores pretty much all the events being discussed.

This is like the ultimate way to get mocked by the kinds of doctors I described.

I understand, I didn't think that you were. I agree with the point you made that maybe doctors who are trying to work might be impeded by a patient who disagrees. But I think that is a much smaller problem since the doctor can quickly be vindicated when the treatment he or she advises works, or the disagreeing patient leaves.

Almost everything I hear from clients I consider to be wrong. And I politely explain to them why that is, I get into their assumptions and reasons for thinking what they do, and try to convince them of why it is not the case. I never mock, I never suggest that they are idiots, and were I to start shirking if they disagreed with me, I wouldn't then make them pay while I continued to shirk.

But when the expert has nothing to say, yet mocks my questions and even just my reporting of what is happening to me, as he very eagerly waits for me to leave so he can get paid... Then there's not much more I can do than read on the Internet.

Some throw in a veiled insult by suggesting I should be sent to a psych ward for my "panic attacks." You might say it's not an insult, but I accepted the psychiatric evaluation once - and then a whole team of psychiatrists determined after 2 weeks that I was genuinely sick with stomach issues, and called that doctor up and asked him what the hell he was doing sending me to them when I had real physiological issues.

The truth is, most patients will accept the doctor's advice if the doctor can give an answer, any answer that's genuine. "We checked out the inflammation and we don't know why it's there, we'll keep working on it." <--- GREAT. Even the most "annoying" and inquisitive patients will accept this answer. The problem occurs when the doctor thinks him/herself too good to work with the patients by giving answers like this.

There's that aggression again.

No, I'm upset about paying someone who mocked me and decided not to do any work because I was too pathetic for someone of his/her status.

I am an expert in my field. Many people I work with suggest things that I know to be wrong. I have NEVER mocked or acted vengeful. If they choose to continue with their ideas that I disagree with, that's their right. Is it really that hard to be respectful?

In every event that I've related in my posts, it was the doctor who was unwilling to give the most basic level of respect.

The rest were both arrogant and incompetent, and some have even caused me severe iatrogenic harm.

I really appreciate this being taught, and from what little you wrote, I appreciate the humility shown. Please don't ever become a "big shot" that's too good to talk openly to people who are afraid about their health.

Yes, that they couldn't help me is not the problem. The problem is that they behaved unprofessionally and mocked me.

>2. You tell them you read about your condition on the internet. Even though the majority of the health information on the internet is utter garbage.

>3. You then get offended when they tell you to not trust what is on the internet. Although again they are 100% spot on here.

- I am 100% OK with a doctor disagreeing with me. A few of the doctors I've met I respect immensely - even though I disagree with them - simply because they were respectful in their disagreement of what I had to say and had an adult answer for me that didn't involve mockery.

- They did not tell me not to trust what is on the Internet. They mocked me and gave up trying to treat me. They became aggressive. And they still wanted to get paid even after deciding I wasn't worthy enough for them to try!

I am an expert in my field, yet I don't dare imagine what would happen if I mocked a client who asked a "stupid" question! And even if there were no consequence, I'd never do it. Why is this somehow OK in medicine?

>4. You are confused why they are dismissive of you. When you chose to see them, paid money for their expert advice and then wanted to dismiss it in favour of your expert advice. Except that your expert advice = 5 mins of Google and theirs = 20 years of schooling.

I did not dismiss their advice. I took it, for decades. You underestimate the hubris of some of these people - they mocked me even if I took their advice, simply for reporting what happened to me.

>I really do feel really sorry for GPs to have to go through this 100x a day.

Oh those poor snowflakes, having to speak to non-expert clients without mocking them!

There exists no other industry where the expert can be so ineffective, yet at the same time aggressively mock the client outright, even deciding not to do the work because the client is not to his/her liking, while still getting paid.

At some point I figured out that it was all about the intestinal microbiota, so I had decent success at reducing the dysbiosis with with caprylic acid and undecylenic acid. Intestinal bacteria, even the "good" ones, sometimes produce histamine, and always produce gas. The "bad" ones produce literal toxins.

Recently I added S. Boulardii and I am now 60-70% improved as long as I maintain this admittedly difficult diet (while making sure to avoid vitamin, mineral and fat deficiencies).

My life has been hell since the age of 11. I was "drunk" and sick to my stomach for decades before the trial and error paid off. The doctors I saw kicked me while I was down. It is quite a dark realization that the industry sucks for entire classes of illness, although I do recognize its merits in treating stereotypically presenting illnesses.

Many would make passive aggressive remarks like "What?... Maybe you should have a psychiatric evaluation." At one point I decided to trust them and go along with it, resulting in years of medication and dealing with withdrawal symptoms upon deciding to quit, which they claimed did not exist at all and that I was making it up.

I am happy that numerous studies like this one continue to vindicate all the things I reported to doctors over the years, although it is likely that the arrogant doctors continue to lack the introspection to realize what they did to me and many other patients, and thus admit nothing, in spite of the increasing evidence that they were flat out wrong.

No similar argument can be made about disabling "www." It is purely an opinionated decision amounting to "you don't need www" - assuming it's not a bug, of course.

Browsers are supposed to be as unopinionated as possible since they are browsers, not mediators, and their job is to implement the standards of the web.

I quit using it a few years back because it was a _nightmare_ having to write d.ts files for everything or be unable to use noImplictAny for your own files. `AllowJs` wasn't even a thing when I started using it, but even after its addition, this problem continued to be absolutely disastrous for my project. I remember being very disillusioned with it because all of their materials (website, docs) kept hammering on how effortless and incremental it was to use with JavaScript, yet `AllowJS` wasn't even a thing for the longest time...

I also had very severe issues with its importing of npm modules, even ones that supported TypeScript. Sometimes it would double-parse bundled d.ts files resulting in a huge error output. Other times it would just completely fail to resolve import paths no matter what I tried.

I remember various workarounds like having to define empty modules for each plain-JS import, or using `///` imports for certain files, and it was a nightmare (and I found many similar issues on StackOverflow that were unsolved). The maintainers at the time considered these terrible workarounds as valid solutions, and thus would almost not even entertain reports regarding these problems.

Indeed. I have certainly been misdiagnosed with something for 20 years now. Over time I have found many little things that help, and they have added up enough so that I can function like a normal human being now.

It's nearly impossible to get past the "it's psychosomatic" barrier most doctors have. They managed to convince me of it once, and I accepted psychiatric management for several years, which led to an exponential worsening of my obviously (or so you'd think) very physical condition until I decided to end that approach after an entire team of specialists were stumped; towards the end, one dared suggest: "I think there's actually something wrong with his stomach..." and around that time I decided to get out of there.

Many doctors completely shut down after a certain, usually very low, threshold of tests. Most shut down after ordering 2 sets of tests and not finding anything definitive; beyond that point they become 100% confident it's in my mind, and replace their respectful tone with a condescending one, with accusatory implications like "you went and made us do a CT scan and there was nothing!"

I wish, like in the case described in this article, my parents acted as my champions when it hit at age 11. Instead they deemed that my needs were excessive for my lowly social status and thus should stop bringing it up to them. Characterizing my demands as a form of misconduct served as a pretext to shut me down, with force if I were to insist.