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Failed to connect to MySQL: (1203) User howardkn already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connectionsPath: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!news.quux.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: The Natural Philosopher Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ? Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2024 12:11:04 +0000 Organization: A little, after lunch Lines: 83 Message-ID: References: <4b2cnTX5lsAz0Pf6nZ2dnZfqn_qdnZ2d@earthlink.com> <9768b36e-becf-45b5-9730-77fc3396ba60@example.net> <35fa6d66-0cd3-db6e-a34c-6625712373f2@example.net> <2e1d4083-8bb5-d852-87e2-466b8971f071@example.net> <573768ec-4a10-ddde-774e-9d378baac394@example.net> <237cf371-700e-be30-7ec8-df825e179db2@example.net> <8ea4721d-c8e7-600d-4eab-8a5f473a8a79@example.net> <131fa0ed-dc3c-5873-81a5-61213a109b57@example.net> <5b065b27-7b96-fa22-2f35-a1fda1bf0edb@example.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2024 13:11:05 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="1b894900feeaf6d73c8272da17eedb78"; logging-data="1012738"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+eOqDyx0IqCpIszQGFMAUoBftHh7DHLyA=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:kVyzojmJSmkRCoCzjypJ6o2VgBc= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-GB Bytes: 5108 On 29/12/2024 11:02, D wrote: > > > On Sat, 28 Dec 2024, The Natural Philosopher wrote: > >> On 28/12/2024 11:17, D wrote: >> >> Its a question of the least worst remedies. Everything has a side >> effect. I tried beta blockers but felt like a zombie. > > Sometimes I get the feeling that doctors are still very close to > medieval alchemists and have no clue what's going on. I have a very > mild, but annoying skin desease that came from nowhere. Since it is very > mild, and only flares up about once a month I never bothered to do > anything about it. But I had some extra time and went to a doctor, he > called in 2 others doctors, and they were looking at it for 20 minutes > discussing, and in the end admitted they had no idea what it is and gave > me some creams. > I had the same. It turned out that I had been using a lot of bleach to clean my house after I got my ex out of it. and it affected my skin. > The creams gave me 2 small permanent scars, that otherwise would have > disappeared (thank you Mr. Doctor!). They told me to come back and they > would look some more. ;) > > So I wonder if I should do it, or if they will manage to make it worse > the second time as well? On the other hand, I am curious about what it > is, and it would be nice to know. > If it doesn't kill you no one has studied it. Medicine is tampering with a massively complex dynamic system, and only by trial and error does it become appernet what works and what does not. >> Cancer is an utter bitch. I am on my second now, having fully survived >> the > > This is the truth! > >> first,  but it is ultimately incurable, just very slow developing, so >> its likely something else will kill me first. > > My grandmother had some form of slow acting blood cancer I think. In the > end I think she died of old age at 95. > Yep. That's the one. Had it at least ten years with no real effect. >> >> The cancer was never present in the bowel to any high degree, just >> mounting back pain and lymph node lumps a few weeks before the end. > > Horrible! =( > >> Some cancers are easy.. Some are harder and some are impossible. >> GPs are not equipped for this. My GP threw me straight at oncology to >> check out something suspicious. She is rather conscientious. > > My mothers doctor told me that cancer is not one disease, it's 100s of > different ones and apparently that is why it is so difficult to cure it. > Research focuses on the most common ones, and I imagine there is very > little money in the least common ones. All it really is, is abnormal genetics taking hold. A mutation appears, survives and then prospers. It is pure luck of the draw, mostly. And its hard to call e.g. heart disease a disease, since there is no active agency causing it. It's an effect of genetics and lifestyle choices and a huge slice of luck. -- In todays liberal progressive conflict-free education system, everyone gets full Marx.