I thought all cookbooks were just recipe collections until I picked up Darina Allen's 'Ballymaloe Cookery Course', a 'proper' cookbook that you could use for life by Ireland's Delia Smith (I guess? not too familiar with Delia)
Solid advice, apart from the chiropractor. By all means engage a physiotherapist / physical therapist, but not a chiropractor. In my experience it's all spine spine spine with those people.
So you have a sample size of one and you are using that as the basis for your advice to a group of people who are not you? Not to rag on you, but this is a common problem with health advice. As soon as we move away from studies people have a thing that works for them that they swear by. We need actual studies and science before we decide one thing is better than something else. Anecdotal evidence is pretty worthless - not totally worthless cause when you are struggling you'll try anything, but pretty worthless.
But just for fun, to balance your one chiropractor I'll give you a different chiropractor story. I hurt my back playing rugby when I was younger, my mum had a chiropractor who she swore by and brought me to. After about 8 weeks of treatment with no improvement I insisted we go to a real doctor. Turned out I'd broken bones in my back. The chiropractor was just treating me for a slipped disk "because 90% of people who come in have them".
I was in a torso cast for 3 months. Needless to say I'm not a huge fan of chiropractors.
You had a bad chiropractor, who probably would have made a bad doctor as well by the sounds of it (just assuming a rugby injury is a slipped disk? did he even check? was he even able to check?)
You'll find tons of stories of malpractice by all sorts of doctors. (I wouldn't go to a chiropractor if there was a chance that x-rays might be necessary for diagnostics.)
A chiropractor isn't a doctor though, does malpractice even apply to them? It's just quackery from start to finish isn't it? That'd be like suing your palm reader for fraud because they made some prediction that turned out wrong.
Chiropractice is not quackery from start to finish. A chiropractor solved my rsi with simple adjustments and some home stretching and joint exercises. A chiropractor fixed my mom's debilitating back pain after pregnancy. But there are many quacks in the field because it is unregulated, and many practitioners also hold metaphysical or folk beliefs that are totally unscientific at best. I have stories about those too. But a good chiropractor will simply diagnose the level of adjustment needed and provide it, and show you how your muscles and skeletal structure are causing you pain.
> Chiropractice is not quackery from start to finish.
I would say it is. The wiki page is quite enlightening.
vertebral subluxation leads to interference with an "innate intelligence" exerted via the human nervous system and is a primary underlying risk factor for many diseases.
It goes on.
Your fortune teller could tell you they predict your health will improve if you lose weight and eat better, or you might get a real psychological benefit from acupuncture that helps your health for example. It is not that no "alternative medicine practitioner" or snake oil salesman can ever give good advice or help anybody in any way, it is that their practice is not based on science.
I'd never ridicule someone for using alternative medicine, or even doubt they get benefits. And I completely understand the draw of trying alternatives when people are desperate with health problems or have been failed by the medical system one way or another. I can't say I wouldn't try alternatives myself, and I know for a fact the whole medical system can be a shit show and is not always aligned to getting the best outcome for the patient. But I am happy to make people aware that chiropathy is not a field of medicine or based in science if it is being recommended, so they can make an informed choice. It masquerades as being a legitimate medical field, which is the real problem with it and is why I call it quackery.
And many many chiropractors do not subscribe to those kooky theories created over 100 years ago. They just focus on maintaining your spinal and skeletal (and muscular) health and examine the impact on your body. Those are the good ones.
It's still pseudoscience. Some remedial massage and stretching and exercise techniques they do may happen to help, but the rigorous scientific medical disciplines for that kind of thing comes under physiotherapy, orthopedics, etc.
An astrologist could tell me the passage of Jupiter indicates I should maintain a healthy weight and exercise, and while they don't really believe in the kooky theories I should still take the advice. It is good advice and it would help my health if I follow it, and it might work for me and I might be happy. That doesn't mean astrology is a legitimate practice or that I should recommend other people seek out astrologers for their health issues.
The chiropractor I'm talking about asked a lot of questions and gave me a lot of advice about what to do at the gym:
- get a trainer for a while and
- work on stabilizer muscles
- pull 3x as much as pushing
- warm up before the training session so as to get the most of the trainer
- stretches to do after the workout
- etc.
I've never had a doctor of any kind be as helpful as that. All GPs nowadays see you for just 5 minutes. Specialists see you for a bit longer, and even then there's barely enough time to cover half of what the chiropractor I'm talking about did. Now, one of the things about that chiropractor is that she speaks really fast, so there's that.
Jim Kurose and his co-author made a lot of material related to their book available online during the pandemic, including video lectures and some interactive problems (https://gaia.cs.umass.edu/kurose_ross/lectures.php).
As an aside, I was briefly in contact with him about using some of his course materials in a networks class I teach and he could not have been more helpful, seems like a very nice man.
Other Minds: The Octopus and the Origins of Intelligent Life by Peter Godfrey Smith discusses the unusual sensory/brain organisation of the Octopus in interesting and readable detail
How is that? Students already are required to submit a lot of evidence with their work such as research notes, plans, lab work etc. to prove they’ve actually done that and if plagiarism detection systems flag any of their work they have to defend it rather than the institution having to investigate and build evidence on its own outside of w/e shoddy plagiarism detection system they bought told them.
The UK flag can be a somewhat loaded symbol for native English speakers from England's former colonies (like Ireland, where I'm from). I'd rather not have to use it to select my language preference, but I'm not going to waste energy jumping up and down shouting on the internet about it either. A minor annoyance I guess.
Yeah as I said the best thing is to remove the flag, because languages aren't flags. As someone else said, just put the language name in its own language. I'm not jumping up and down annoyed, I'm not even really annoyed, I just wanted to share this cultural insight that IMO was indicative of a larger issue of having flags at all.
Every time I have to click on the UK flag to select my language preference I have a quiet "ugh" moment, then click on the damn flag and move on with my life.
Agree this is a strange oversight of i18n language selection UI in general. We have English ({US, Australia, Canada, United Kingdom}) as relatively standard language choices why not add Scotland, Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland and Wales. I think there's probably even more...
We also have Chinese ({Hong Kong, China, Taiwan}) as fairly standard choices for somewhat similar reasons.
I think country variations for Arabic also exist.
The lack of completeness in general (not this site specifically) is inexcusable.
I'm currently looking into this area (for similar reasons as you :)), these weren't on my radar at all. I'm EU based and flexible in what I'm looking for so they sound appealing. I'm curious what the "several others" you refer to are? I want to look into those too
I've drifted in and out of academia since my undergrad (in physics). Started out at hardware design in industry, went back to do PhD in space science, later on ended up working as software engineer in industry, now teach software development at a technical university.
At best it's pointless. Everything is apparently cloud native, so why even bother?
At its worst the cloud native landscape is complexity nightmare. Why are there 12 API gateways? Are they all equally good? They certain don't do the same, well mostly they do, have fun figurering out which one to use. Almost none of the product are named all that well, so that's no help.
Right now the cloud native landscape is just a collection of pretty icons that look kinda cool. It doesn't really mean anything. Best I can tell: Graduated doesn't even mean that you're guaranteed that these product will work together... They might.
I get that others look at the cloud native landscape and see endless possibilities, a smorgasbord of options, and that's wonderful. I just see complexity, confusing, and shameless self-promotion in an attempt to ride the Kubernetes/container wave and make a name for yourself and maybe a few bucks.
Don't get me wrong, many of these tools are fantastic, but that some people can look at that massive graphic and think that the industry is moving in the right direction it troubling. Half of these product are dead-ends. We just don't know which yet. The room for mistakes are enormous and some poor soul will pick the wrong API gateway and be stuck with it for the next ten years.
