Listing alumni degree year is generally an "insider" thing (noone who isn't also a Cornell alum really cares which year, especially for a bachelor's degree; likewise Cornell doesn't mention the Harvard '95 PhD in Applied Physics, even if it's probably more relevant to the work...)
"insider" thing, you can be certain that an exempliary mind such as his did not get fired up in a vacume, and that 90, was a year and place that likely produced an iteresting mixed bag of characters, or in other times would be refered to as "schools of thought", and then some went off to bell labs which still functions as an intelectual singuarity that leaks concepts through it's event horison ocasionaly, or in this case displays time dialation effects.
Automation to determine that the thing watering the plants has failed is crucial.
This is especially true if the system is some form of setup in which there isn't a bunch of soil to buffer a couple of days of not watering correctly (like hydro- or aqua- ponics).
Everything not mRNA failed. Sometimes miserably with bad effects, and those effects have all been swept under the rug. Some of the vaccines gave people lifelong sensitivities to the adenovirus vectors. I can go on and on.
We got damned lucky that mRNA vaccines against Covid work as well as they do. Nobody new a priori (go look at Derek Lowe's writing from "In the Pipeline" during it all) and "everything would strike out" was not off the table.
And the mRNA stuff only worked because people already had been working on mRNA vaccines for other things slowly over decades. We got "lucky" that Covid appeared when we had all the pieces in places (liposome encapsulation, alternate amino acid replacement, etc.)
Before advocating for "fast track", advocate for better and more stable funding on the "slow track" pure research that takes decades but feeds into this kind of thing. The work of Katalin Karikó was instrumental in this stuff and yet she had to swim through mountains of shit to do the research and was denied tenure. With better funding, this stuff could have been done a decade earlier.
IIRC, the issue was never how often the DVD-R/W could be rewritten.
The issue was the fact that everybody assumed that the DVD-R/W discs had roughly the same lifetime as actual DVDs and that turned out to be woefully incorrect.
The quality differences between DVD-RW brands and batches were huge, with some discs barely surviving ten rewrites while others managed many more. Exposure to heat or sunlight kills them quickly, even though they were not marketed as disposable. For real archival needs, options like M-DISC, tape, or cheap SSDs are more reliable than rewritable DVDs.
People did? I thought that was common knowledge, as it also was for CDs. Not only that, compatibility with players were much worse.
Though there were times were RW discs cost as much as normal ones, and some friends of mine defaulted to buying RW even for stuff that was write once. I didn't get that, but for them the ability to, maybe, reuse the disc outweighed any reliability issues.
> everybody had carpal tunnel syndrome and then just one day it all went away.
It didn't. It just became a routine thing to be diagnosed.
When I had wrist surgery for an accident, every single data entry person at the hospital (almost a dozen of them) knew the surgeon I was going to because they all had their wrists operated on because of ailments from the cheap-ass computer stuff they were using.
You would think that the hospital and insurance provider would see the link and decide that maybe providing better ergonomic conditions would be useful, but ... no. Putting people in for surgery doesn't come off the budget while ergonomic workstations would. So, here we are.
It also doesn't hurt that most tech workers are cognizant of the problem and now happen to be paid well enough that they can do something about it.
That is conflating two VERY different numbers. 60% is percentage of reported workplace injuries. 9% is of all adults.
That makes me suspect that the total number of RSI cases is much larger right now than from back in 1990. This would back up my assertion that RSI simply became a mainstream medical diagnosis.
> Direct responses, with care given, are also in a better position to alter working theories as any other evidence emerges.
The problem is that "mental illness" is a career limiting diagnosis.
Security clearance personnel have the same problem as airplane pilots. They can't get treatment for mental illness because it would cut off their career.
Consequently, while "Havana Syndrome" may be real, there are large confounding problems in sorting it out.
The evidence that something wrong is beyond credible.
You may be right, that one diagnosis doesn't have the evidence of another issue you point out. But that is diagnosis. That there is a problem is certain.
It's a complex issue. But a decision has to be made, to either deal straightforwardly with a complex issue, or in a deceptive, avoidant, or secretive manner.
This isn't a choice that removes fundamental complexity, but being direct about problems avoids a lot of manufactured complexity.
If someone is suffering long term life changing mental symptoms, in what sense does the cause make it mental health vs. not mental health? Obviously, it is a mental health issue whether caused by physical or psychological malfunctions.
There is no "winning" for sufferers, in any scenario. But there is better support, or less support.
Generally competent people insisting they are dealing with something serious, should be taken seriously.
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You may have identified the non-medical systemic problem here:
A strong case could be made that black and white "mental illness" disqualifications for any job are devastatingly out of step with reality and going to damage the careers of people it shouldn't. There should be some means of getting the all clear after any episode, given reasons to believe it has been resolved.
Beyond careers and people suffering unnecessarily, this also critically motivates people responsible for security and safety to hide and bury real problems!
How does that help institutions with safety and security concerns?
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