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Looks like a new entry is coming.
Looks like a new entry is coming.
Look on the bright side: if it were an F-35, the panel would have 13 nuts instead of 3, and all be different.
The poster was not the boss. The boss calls the final shots. The technician's job is to present the risks (trade-offs) as accurately and clearly as possible. If the boss(es) then choose to ignore the risk warnings, the blame falls on them. If you usurp their power, you are out the door (unless it's a legal matter).
Incidentally, I was in a somewhat similar situation where marketing planned to release about 30 websites for satellite offices all at once along with a press release about the new sites. I pointed out our "budget-oriented" infrastructure may not be able to handle such a sudden load, and suggested staggering the releases. Other technicians agreed with my warning, but the marketing chief was really disappointed, saying something like, "It's better P/R to have one big release. Staggering the releases takes the punch out of it."
I was tempted to respond, "30 crashed sites is not good P/R either", but smartly bit my tongue (based on prior experience with "reality" statements). He was a true P-H-B, always looking for a cheap short-sighted shortcut, but tried to blame us when his paper tigers got eaten. He drove one guy to retire early. Later he was under investigation for giving contracts to his buddies instead of basing them on merit. Not surprising, his buddies were also idiots.
Was it too late to re-inspect when mentioned in the meeting? You perhaps could have said, "I don't recognize that nut, but I'm willing to go in and look around."
Databases should be backed up with a text-dump (such as an SQL INSERT list), not the actual database file, because of the internal pointers that are fragile. A text-dump "flattens" the pointers. If you do use the actual database file as a backup, shut all DB writing off first, during the backup. And keep multiple generations.
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That is NOT the majority of America or Europe. Especially not Europe.
+...and the Leaf is NOT $20K. It's $30K and up.
Europeans drive things like Fiats and Smartcars and then park them perpendicularly.
I am not poor and I am no longer a student. So I don't have to drive a cheap crappy car. Thus, this car gets judged based on what I already have and have had for decades already.
It's a premium priced econobox which likely explains adoption rates.
It also looks like an underpowered subcompact.
I might consider test driving it in 5-10 years when it's time to replace the current vehicle. Probably would not be comfortable driving it though.
Never heard of an egolf.
This sounds like an exposure problem. Available options are few and far between.
Plus many people have brand strong preferences. They may not consider Brand X under any circumstances regardless of how green and trend one of their models is. I would at least consider a VW but would never touch a Chevy.
"using its enormous data assets to make meaningful connections between people and facilitate organic engagement within a rich ecosystem"
Sounds like a drunken data orgy with the NSA.
I'm not a "troll", I'm an Agitation Engineer.
Crappiness can be done cheaper overseas.
I'm glad you found something that works for you.
This is a good meta-study, diving into guesswork and hypothesis on mechanisms of depression. Here's some science. TL;DR: pills, long-term (24 month), have over a 3/4 relapse rate; cognitive therapy, discontinued after 4 months, show just over 50% relapse in total after 24 months. Initially, PILLS ARE EXACTLY AS EFFECTIVE, IN EXACTLY THE SAME WAY, AS COGNITIVE THERAPY. Exactly as effective. You can do absolutely no worse without drug therapy than you can by just talking to depressed people to make them feel better, and you do far better by talking to them and telling them how to get over it.
In a more recent CT -ADM placebo-controlled comparison, 240 severely depressed patients were randomized to ADM (n=120), CT (n=60) or a (pill) placebo control (n=60) treatment.
Big, randomized trial of people with ungodly hell depression (monopolar).
At the end of the 16-week treatment phase of the study, there were no differences in outcome between ADM and CT, with 58% of patients in both treatment groups meeting the criteria for ‘response’. Curiously, there was no indication that the two treatments affected different symptom clusters of depression: patients treated with either ADM or CT showed comparable rates of change of both cognitive and vegetative symptoms of depression.
Cognitive therapy (therapist nicely telling you how to get over it) is about exactly as effective in exactly the same way as taking pills. YOU WON'T BELIEVE WHAT HAPPENED NEXT!
In the continuation phase of the recent CT versus ADM study, patients who responded to 16 weeks of ADM were randomly assigned to either continue the treatment or change to a (pill) placebo condition. Patients who responded to 16 weeks of CT were withdrawn from treatment and allowed no more than three booster sessions (never more than one per month) during the first year of the follow-up period.
We took their meds away, and kicked all the therapy people out of therapy. Kept half the pill-heads on pills as a control, switched the other half to sugar pills, and didn't tell anyone.
As shown in FIG. 2, 76% of the ADM responders relapsed following medication withdrawal, compared with only 31% of the patients who had been treated with CT. Patients who continued ADM also fared better than patients who were assigned to the placebo treatment, with a relapse rate of 47% (which did not differ significantly from the 31% relapse rate in the CT group). After the continuation phase had ended, the patients who had not relapsed while on ADM were withdrawn from medication. Of these patients, 54% experienced a recurrence (the onset of a new depressive episode), compared with only 17% of the patients who had previously been given CT.
Like 3/4 of the pill-heads became severely depressed once we took the pills away; about 1/3 of the CT people had the same trouble. Half the people who stayed on pills relapsed, although in this study that's roughly equivalent (i.e. assume 47% == 31%): STAYING ON PILLS IS THE SAME AS QUITTING YOUR THERAPY AFTER 4 MONTHS. Of the pill users who didn't relapse, half of them relapsed after we took their meds away
Overall, just a hair under 50% of the patients who had CT for 4 months and then quit were, at 24 months, still cured. Just under 25% of patients who had drugs for 12 months came out of the 24 month period without having another depressive episode. Just under 10% of sugar pill patients were doing fine, no drugs and no therapy.
Drugs are facilitating: they provide you a baseline of feeling, which can help retrain your brain to behave in this new way by restricting its undesirable behavior. That can help; in the most extreme cases, drugs are *required*, because you simply can't pull yourself up by your bootstraps if your head is six feet under the muck; knee-deep in the muck is a different story, and this shit was tried on people who were *chest*-deep in muck. What people need, by and large, are *tools*: they need mental techniques and training to reform their brains. Some of us go slack and let ourselves get back into bad habits; continued follow-up sessions can provide a sort of tune-up if you want to be lazy like that.
Notate what I said about training executive functions:
Both CT and ADM probably affect limbic and prefrontal circuitry, although their proximal mechanisms of action might differ. A primary goal of CT is to replace automatic emotional reactivity with more-controlled processing. CT might thus increase inhibitory executive control, helping to interrupt or dampen automatic limbic reactions. In fact, functions of the PFC that are impaired in depression, such as task-related direction of attention, willful regulation of emotional responses, and reappraisal, are the focus of therapeutic activity in CT.
Do this like I do: think about it introspectively. You've sat in front of the TV and ate Cheetohs, thinking about how you're gonna get fat if you keep eating junk, and about how you should really clean the house... and just continued watching TV. You know that feeling. Your self-monitoring system is working--you know you're doing it wrong--but your initiation system has failed you: you have the intellectual understanding that you should get up and do a different thing, and you
I'm sure you can see that when you reflect on it. Take that reflection and go find science. Science talks about this a lot. It's how we treat retards, like those people with asperger's, so they can function exactly like normal human beings--you didn't think they were hopelessly broken, did you? It's how we turn mundane, poverty-stricken children into visionary geniuses and executive-management material. It's what people crudely recognize and work to improve when something so shocking happens in their lives that they must stop the pain and the damage to their self-esteem by putting their lives back together. It may be the most minor of things if you're pretty well-off mentally, but it's there, and you'll find a defect in those functions somewhere; we're all lacking a bit.
It's the same system we muck about with when we train anxiety and depression out of people. If pure cognitive therapy works for you, continuously, then it's a matter of training: you can handle relapses by putting yourself on therapy maintenance, taking booster sessions as needed, and constantly trying to ween yourself away from them. This is one of the rare cases where you can make yourself stronger; that's not common, just like we know weening yourself off Synthroid pills won't make your thyroid man the fuck up and get working properly. The fact that just over half of people relapse eventually in two years with only THREE SESSIONS between 4 and 12 months and NONE after 12 months should plainly tell you to try more therapy, since it apparently works for 90% of cases for those first 4 months (which, by the way, I dislike: I want an experiment like this where booster sessions are freely available for the full 2 years).
I guess you just like to watch people suffer, and have no high ideals. The right way, the effective way, to do things isn't important; throwing a tantrum about your feels is more important than helping people.
Ugh, then you are the worst kind of clinical depression sufferer. You found an out and you still don't have empathy for the others who haven't.
I found a pattern, I found others following the same pattern, and I found international research showing that the pattern is known to science. I've also found that the scientific understanding of depression and its treatments are in the same class as the scientific understanding of global warming: while science has less than perfect understanding of either, it is those with a vested interest in denial who wholesale deny such things could possibly be real, in the face of all evidence and scientific consensus. They look outside and say, "See, it is cold! Climate change is not real!" and they say, "See, I feel bad! You must simply not understand how I feel!"
Bullshit. Some do, others detest feeling helpless. I think this is a mantra you tell yourself to enhance your own self worth.
It is a piece of scientifically-well-known psychiatric behavior. You will find respected medical literature at the heart of what has been called "Psychic illness in the need for attention and love"--how outdated a term, "Psychic"--to what is now explained as "Psychosomatic illness as a subconscious behavior to fill the need of self-importance". All humans require a feeling of self-worth to survive; all humans will become clinically depressed without a defining feeling of importance.
The mind can manifest physical illness, just as electromagnetic transmission antennas cause certain people to develop rashes, digestive problems, respiratory diseases, headaches, and other independently-observable symptoms of real, tangible nature, even though the transmitter is an unpowered hunk of metal producing no electromagnetic radiation. We have long studied this as a manifestation of the human need for attention, and refined that, eventually, into a need for an individual sense of importance; yet it becomes an opaque leap of logic to say a person may feel bad due to anxiety over a need for attention, a need to feel important.
It seems more logical to assume that a person may develop mental illnesses in response to a great injury of the psyche, damaging their sense of self-importance. Psychiatric literature has notated many defects in the operating brain when dealing with insanity; yet still observes that a great bulk of the insane show no physical trauma--that their mental state is wholly self-inflicted, a concoction of the mind causing changes in the brain's production of neurotransmitters purely by function of the brain, not by damage. The greatest proportion of the patently insane have developed delusions to comfort themselves in the face of extreme emotional trauma. What nonsense, then, is it to claim that such emotional issues would not cause lesser mental defects?
A human who suffers anxiety must come to terms with that anxiety. Persons with depression lash out at those around them for claiming it's all in their heads, fighting against the very idea that it may be their own fault; and why not? If it were their own fault, they would have to feel bad about it. They may not want to look helpless in the eyes of their peers, but they certainly want to feel that they've not brought this terrible suffering upon themselves by concocting an imaginative fantasy within the bosoms of their minds. They want to feel the weight of a terrible burden that was placed upon them, not of their own actions which they may remediate at any time.
you denigrate those who can't muscle their way out of depression like you did
It is simple technique, not brute force. You draw a stylized illustration in which a person's powerful brain--my great, super-genius-level intellect--hammers its way through the blockages and stands victorious upon the rubble of those things which thought laughably to impede it. The truth is the difficulties are an annoyance and nothing more: a person must first install a self-monitoring system, realizing at the point of action what they are doing--what they are thinking--and the act of thinking and feeling is so autonomous that you can easily forget to take your attention to what you are thinking and feeling. It is not strength--not intellectual greatness--but reminder at precisely the right time.
This is not conjecture; this is clear, researched, well-accepted science. The same science specifies cognitive therapies for ADHD and autism to develop social and intellectual habits which route around the mental defect, inherent or acquired. I have the force of 98% of psychiatric scientists behind me; most importantly, I have the most effective position, the one which helps remove the suffering from the most people, while you hold the opinion which helps no one out of the long journey of human suffering they have learned to call life. Stamp your foot all you want, but do it out of the way of people who can actually help.
Variables don't; constants aren't.