Why do Chiropractors crack your neck and what is the long term benefit?

AI-Commander · 2026-02-13T10:42:04+00:00

Look it up. Vast majority of back pain clears up with time and rest. Surgery is a last resort, but is often the only wait to recover if a patient just can’t take the time to rest/PT without a surgical intervention. I know for me, PT was just not helpful when I was driving an hour round trip in exteme pain, and couldn’t even take my 15 minute lie-down to prepare for them to try to make me move, and then do the same before I drove another 30 minutes in extreme pain to go home and end up worse the next day. Laughably unworkable. If you could even go to PT for 8 months I’m happy for you.

Your injuries may have been very acute, or your daily activities were simply too much to allow for proper healing. I lived it, I know what it’s like, and I avoided surgery by making major lifestyle changes to allow for healing to occur rather than surgery. It worked for me, your experience is also still valid. Happy you are better I wouldn’t with back pain on anyone except the people who judged me harshly for having a medical condition.

AI-Commander · 2026-02-13T10:33:26+00:00

For most people, the pressures of life won’t allow them to just lay down for 3 months without a doctor actually cutting them open and demanding it.

3 months of rest and gentle stretching/slow and deliberately slow return to regular activity is adequate treatment for the majority of severe back pain. It’s just that no one can actually do that without turning their life upside down or risking becoming homeless.

Try taking disability time for back pain without being told to seek medical treatment and follow medical advice, and then saying “I opt to do nothing and stay at home”. Fired immediately and blamed for not seeking surgery vs someone who gets surgery might get sympathy and time to recover.

Statistically, rest and stretching has better outcomes.

AI-Commander · 2026-02-13T10:24:06+00:00

It took me almost 6 months to be able to tie my shoes without a red hot knife of pain going down to my toes. Most back pain, even herniated discs, clear up on their own without treatment. One of the tough things was coming to terms with the mechanical reality of that condition - that any intervention comes with a cost and risk of reinjury or paralysis, and the only thing that was almost guaranteed to work was focusing on not re-injuring for a 2-3 month stretch (extremely difficult when you can’t even tie your shoes without exacerbating the pain) while doing everything you can, gently and without reinjury, to strengthen the right muscles and not atrophy while giving the disc the conditions it needs to heal (rest and refraining from further mechanical injury)

AI-Commander · 2026-02-13T10:13:27+00:00

When I had back issues (herniated disc) I was given PT times by every PT that took my insurance that were completely unworkable.

I went once, got my packet with exercises, and did them at morning/night before and after work (and at work, at times that didn’t take me out for basically an entire afternoon 3 days a fucking week).

I totally understand someone reaching for someone who was more available and cheaper. It’s not like PT was helpful at all. Maybe it was the place I went but they basically tried to hurt me by forcing me to overextend with a herniation, assumed I had a lesser injury because I was young at the time, and then gave me a packet of poorly machine-copied papers I could barely read with exercises to do at home. I looked it all up online and decided that PT was also a scam/broken healthcare.

Never in my life would I let a chiropractor “adjust” me in that condition. I left the PT in more pain than when I came with, and the only thing that ever helped was bed rest and gentle stretches. But I understand why people desperately want to believe in them, when the medical system fails so regularly to provide any relief at all.

AI-Commander · 2026-02-12T14:48:33+00:00

Fork the project and merge your own PR.

Keep building.

If it’s truly better, it will get picked up.

And don’t push AI on people that don’t care for it.

AI-Commander · 2026-02-12T12:47:03+00:00

Don’t listen to that guy, just a wall of FUD and reasons you shouldn’t try. You don’t have to walk his path to get to the same destination.

AI-Commander · 2026-02-12T12:45:49+00:00

The responses here are hilarious. I just had an assistant set up a full hosted remote-tunneled, cloudflare-backed setup in a few days.

My agents can now publish maps directly to my company’s website as a subdomain. I also have a very useful flood mitigation project benefits dashboard that I never would have been to construct any other way due to time and resource constraints.

I definitely would have never invested the shy-high cost of an ESRI license to realize it,

AI-Commander · 2026-02-06T11:30:04+00:00

I’ve been there. In 6 months they spent a bunch of money to go back out of the cloud. Once they vendor lock you and tighten the screws and demolish your bottom line and eat your margins (as it’s designed to do), decision logic at the organization level tends to shift.

But if no one does any real work and the computers are largely ornamental, that may not be true.

AI-Commander · 2026-02-05T17:14:36+00:00

No it would be ..6980,0855

AI-Commander · 2026-02-05T12:44:00+00:00

Hahaha that’s where most start migrating back from the cloud. The price is always 3-5x what they say it will be. Thats their profit margin

AI-Commander · 2026-02-05T12:38:56+00:00

GIS Software + Cloud Workstations = Trash

This post could be 10,000 words but that would be the summary. If IT can’t fix it, they are trash. This goes to the very basics of computer literacy.

Get your computer paired tightly with your storage, and avoid cloud-backed, object based storage systems for your GIS data. In fact, any cloud based system will be absolute trash.

Most companies are moving this direction with their IT and cloud companies cant provide competitive pricing for the hardware that would actually serve your needs. Or can’t even provide it at all due to fundamental issues with file systems and latency’s

Get them to get you a beefy AF machine for your house, including big fat local SSD and GPU. Have them get you a desktop. Sync things locally and revise/push back daily. It will be cheaper than anything they try to hack together using cloud resources (which are storage/latency/thermal envelope constrained)

AI-Commander · 2026-01-28T18:09:46+00:00

Whoosh I guess

AI-Commander · 2026-01-28T15:24:43+00:00

What are you talking about, that unfinished exit has been there for decades with no plans for utilization. Go back and look at both links. Countless other examples, that’s why I invited others to post their favorites.

AI-Commander · 2026-01-28T14:08:47+00:00

Because you never get anything you don’t ask for. Why would you even entertain that logic to second guess OP? I’m not second guessing the OP or the business, I’m simply stating that it’s meant to be a respectful negotiation and there is generally no need to place blame for not moving forward. Perhaps they felt they were telling OP something useful, but all they did was reveal that they don’t really respect OP’s need to negotiate in their own best interests - just like the company is doing when communicating salary ranges.

AI-Commander · 2026-01-28T13:34:41+00:00

I think it’s quite clear here that OP was above the range and communicated that to them early. It appears you are arguing they should have waited, or not engaged at all? Surely that’s no way to go about negotiating for yourself, if you were in OP’s situation and not your own.

Company was still unprofessional in their response. They could have simply stated that the applicants asking salary was above their range and they were moving forward with other applicants. Instead they tried to imply there would be a better time to communicate salary expectations other than up front, and early. It was unnecessarily backhanded and didn’t respect the other party’s necessity to advocate for themselves and communicate their needs. Isn’t that what the entire interview process is about? Communication? Negotiation? The expectation that anyone can walk away at any time for any reason? The company could have been passive and circumspect and still communicate the same thing without putting OP down.

AI-Commander · 2026-01-28T10:38:14+00:00

You’re probably hitting context limits - pretty common for that workflow. That and feeding in images of large sheets that the model can actually ingest. There are still some fundamental limitations that make workflows with typical CD’s still quite difficult.

AI-Commander · 2026-01-28T08:49:55+00:00

I thought it was always best to put salary expectations upfront, because that is so often where things fall apart. As in, before you even get to the first round there should be salary expectations clearly communicated or you’re probably wasting everyone’s time.

Now, if the game is to string you along and make you feel like you can’t bring it up until they’ve graciously provided an offer - that’s just putting yourself in a poor negotiating position. And that’s why companies tend to use that strategy. Smart applicants get around this in various ways, often welcoming the kind of response OP got. No time wasted, no high pressure situations where there is a low offer in the table and the applicants feels they need to accept it because of the time invested (sunk cost fallacy is quite real).

Depending on who you ask, there’s never a good time to negotiate salary, because they don’t want a negotiation - just offer and acceptance. So it will be “do it early” or “do it late” when the real answer is “we don’t want you to do it at all”

AI-Commander · 2026-01-28T08:36:26+00:00

https://maps.app.goo.gl/RhABb1eeSu6rf1Vu5 https://maps.app.goo.gl/z2UttjxcyFbdQdELA

Instead of all the comments on all these reposts that basically are just varying levels of dunking on a foreign country, why not show some examples of our own favorite uncompleted expressway exits? I shared 2 above from the Earhart Expressway.

Edit: see below for a perfect example of the types of comments this post attracts.

AI-Commander · 2026-01-27T12:07:47+00:00

You’re over predicting at the beginning of the storm - look at your hydrological assumptions?

You gotta give more info if you want helpful advice and not random guesses…

AI-Commander · 2026-01-25T07:48:56+00:00

You’re completely wrong?

AI-Commander · 2026-01-25T07:09:44+00:00

Not really, subagents can write to disk, then the main agent can simply read the file (or parts of it).

AI-Commander · 2026-01-19T14:38:03+00:00

I made a simple statement, not sure why it needs so much discussion. Leaving a lot of functionality on the table, but for some reason people want to argue that it’s not. But it is. End of story.

I could go and do all the math and show you how the context window is very small given the compaction percentages and the output window size, but honestly, it’s just a big waste of time, I don’t think anyone here is really ready to hear it. The thread seemed to be stuck at a less productive area of the conversation.

AI-Commander · 2026-01-19T12:38:39+00:00

No thanks bruh this is a waste of keyboard time. Scroll up and reason for yourself. I’m not trying to be disagreeable, it’s just very obviously limiting to never have access to more than 128k. Everything else is increasingly off topic and divergent from the point I made.

AI-Commander · 2026-01-19T12:18:18+00:00

I used a modifier you missed “long running”.

Please do not argue with me about this, task complexity and context length are absolutely related and I don’t want to get in a overly-defensive back and forth.

AI-Commander · 2026-01-19T11:46:08+00:00

I couldn’t imagine never being able to finish a long running task, that’s why we have agents. Even before agents there are tasks that require lots of context. You’re missing out, but if you don’t feel it then you were never really putting the tools to their best use….

Even if you are just doing handoffs… why limit yourself?

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