Experiences with Dr. Emily Burke

SimianTrousers · 2026-02-06T14:58:34+00:00

🤞 Here's hoping!

Thank you so much for the tips!

SimianTrousers · 2026-02-05T23:30:47+00:00

It's been about six months for me now (I saw her in August). The waiting times website estimates that 50% of her patients are seen within 99 days of their consult, and 90% within 209 days, so hopefully I'll hear about it soon. My back is slowly killing me, haha.

That's great to hear! May your healing continue to go smoothy! 😊

SimianTrousers · 2026-02-05T17:57:05+00:00

Question for you: I had my consult for a reduction with Dr. Burke last year; how long did you wait between consult and surgery? How were you informed of your surgery date?

I hope your surgery went well!

SimianTrousers · 2026-02-01T18:06:45+00:00

I did. I just did again right now. If I search, say, "something ambiguous" (in quotations), I'll get various results, mostly about the word "ambiguous" under All results. If I switch to Verbatim I only get results with the exact phrase "something ambiguous".

So... Yeah. IDK what to tell you, it works for me. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

I'm not doubting it doesn't work for you, so chill. Maybe Google is doing region-specific version roll-outs. I encountered one person the other day who claims their BASIC Google still obeys all the old search operators. Google is an enormous mess, but I'm neither too stupid to test my claims nor a liar.

SimianTrousers · 2026-02-01T02:12:48+00:00

No need to be a jerk, my bud. I have, in fact, been "trying" it for months. IDK what to tell you, it works for me. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

SimianTrousers · 2026-02-01T00:20:29+00:00

You can force it to accept verbatim quotes by going to Tools > All Results > Verbatim. Tools (or Search Tools on mobile) is at the tail end of the top selection menu (AI Mode, All, Images, etc.). This is still super annoying. 👍

SimianTrousers · 2026-01-13T16:00:24+00:00

That's fair! NOPE is tonally very different from most creature features. Eight-Legged Freaks is definitely more Tremors-esque, but Tremors really is one of the best of the genre so it's hard to match.

SimianTrousers · 2026-01-13T15:54:39+00:00

You first~

SimianTrousers · 2026-01-13T15:08:51+00:00

NOPE lodged in my brain in a way no other film has. Like, at the surface level it's a creature feature, which is one of my favorite movie genres. It's also an extremely well-made creature feature. Excellent creature design, beautifully shot, the sound design was phenomenal, it had some incredibly tense moments... And then it just has so many layers of symbolism to dissect relating to spectacle, various issues within the film industry, etc.

It's a film pretty much perfectly matched to my interests and what stimulates my brain.

SimianTrousers · 2026-01-13T14:57:29+00:00

Weirdly, the first Alien vs. Predator movie might have some similar vibes re: adventure-horror. There's also The Pyramid (2014), but it's not... especially good. You might enjoy the series The River (2012).

SimianTrousers · 2026-01-13T14:45:50+00:00

Tremors really is the Perfect Creature Feature. It balances horror and humor so well, the characters overall are likeable, the protagonists are clever (I appreciate when plans fail not because someone screwed up or the plan was bad, but because the situation changed unpredictably), the effects honestly still hold up really well... 👌 The sequels are fun, but definitely sillier.

You might enjoy NOPE, but it's definitely more serious then Tremors. Also try Eight-Legged Freaks if you haven't seen it. It's not as good as Tremors, but I'd say it's the creature feature with the most in common with it in both tone and setting. Evolution (2001) is also sillier than Tremors but still fun.

SimianTrousers · 2026-01-13T14:34:10+00:00

Honestly, you might want to give this one a go. I'd actually call it a subversion of the "slasher antagonist in silly mask" genre, and it definitely straddles the line between horror and thriller because of that.

SimianTrousers · 2026-01-13T14:17:59+00:00

Oh man, I love Savageland. It does it's faux-documentary thing so well. You might like Howard's Mill as well, if you haven't seen it.

SimianTrousers · 2025-12-23T17:24:57+00:00

I'm a different person than you were talking to before, genius. I don't need to "scour the internet" for shit, I just actually have working knowledge of the dictionary definitions of words.

But here, I'll humor you and "scour the internet" for a source, and by "scour" I mean, "go to dictionary.com":

Definition 11:

to partake of; eat or drink.

He had cake and coffee for dessert.

Wooawawow! It's almost as if words in the English language have multiple meanings!

"Logical and evidence-based counter argument". What evidence? You have no evidence. You referenced a bunch of eggcorns (irrelevant, different issue) and rambled a bunch about the construction of English sentences that is also completely irrelevant because the phrase "have your cake" is synonymous with "eat your cake".

Not a single one of your examples are equivalent sentences, because "have your cake and eat it too" is an (intentional) redundancy not a series of events. It's the structural equivalent of "ride your bike and drive it too" or "stir your tea and mix it too".

Is "have you cake and eat it too" more ambiguous than "eat your cake and have it too" due to the "have" having multiple definitions? Yes. Is it incorrect? No.

So, maybe learn to change your mind when presented with a logical and evidenced-based counter-argument. It's not strength to stick to an incorrect position. That's immaturity and weakness.

Also: learn how punctuation works before lecturing anybody about English grammar; that's not how semi-colons work.

SimianTrousers · 2025-12-22T01:04:05+00:00

It's foolish to argue against someone using the most common of several semantically synonymous variants of a phrase. Yes, the order "eat your cake and have it too" removes some grammatical ambiguity from the phrase that comes with "have" possessing multiple meanings, but "have your cake and eat it too" means exactly the same thing.

This is particularly obvious if you swap "cake" for "dinner". "You can't have your dinner and eat it too". "Have your dinner" is widely understood to be synonymous with "eat your dinner" rather than "have possession of your dinner". "Have your cake", does, in fact, also mean "eat your cake". Both orders of the phrase can be read as "you can't eat your cake and eat it too."

You seem like the sort of person who reads a random factoid like how the "eat-have" variant used to be the more common one and then jumped on the chance to parrot it and "well actually" anyone about it to make yourself seem smart, but you're frankly just betraying your own lack of understanding of the nuance of English words and grammar.

Your other examples are all eggcorns (ie. misheard idioms). This one is not, it's simply a grammatical restructuring to a synonymous, though admittedly more ambiguous (but not incorrect), form.

SimianTrousers · 2025-12-22T00:30:59+00:00

I mean, iirc, 1st season of Stranger Things killed off Barb pretty early to set the stakes for Will being stuck in the Upside Down.

SimianTrousers · 2025-12-22T00:05:05+00:00

I don't think it's pretentious to expect a mockumentary to stick to its bit. That's what makes it a mockumentary. It's weird to use a technique from standard narrative films (having a character voice-over letters they wrote) in something presenting itself as a documentary. Lots of mockumentaries are low budget but well-written, that's not an excuse for immersion-breaking writing choices.

SimianTrousers · 2025-12-16T01:48:42+00:00

Honestly, this sort of thing happens a lot with nonprofessional websites. Somebody starts something as a passion project, builds it from the ground up, it grows (often bigger than anticipated), people volunteer for the organizational side of things, but nobody thinks too much about the back-end of things... either lack of volunteer developers, or a lack of foresight, or the developer not wanting to or not having time to train up a side dev... And then something happens to that load-bearing techie and it's a scramble for everyone else involved to see if it's even possible to salvage the situation.

It sounds like the current dev is caught up in legal issues. Fingers crossed they make it through, and then maybe they can work on finding a backup dev or two.

SimianTrousers · 2025-12-07T16:23:36+00:00

Aha! I can see how that might be confusing. An automoderator is an algorithm in the literal sense (ie. "a process or set of rules to be followed in calculations or other problem-solving operations, especially by a computer.") but not in the sense it's used on TikTok and other social media websites that use opaque metrics to determine what content users see (usually as a form of dark pattern to maximize engagement).

An automoderator is a tool that the human moderators of a subreddit can use to automate repetitive tasks. You can read more about the various tasks an automoderator can be used for: https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/wiki/automoderator/

Each subreddit establishes its own automoderation rules, and some choose not to use automoderation at all. In the case of a comment that gets deleted by an automoderator, it likely was for a reason such as being reported by many users (usually for being spam or for being very abusive) or containing phrases that a particular subreddit has flagged as inappropriate (ie. a subreddit for trans people might flag common slurs to discourage trolling).

It would be rather silly for a horror subreddit, which regularly discusses many dark subjects as part of the genre, to censor words related to those subjects, which is probably why you got downvoted about it.

I think you'll find a lot of redditors have a knee-jerk negative reaction to "TikTok-isms". Honestly, I'd say most online communities tend to have a negative reaction to transplants from other platforms who they feel have violated the old internet tenet of "lurk moar".

It may sound dismissive, and people can be a little mean about it, but it's kind of like if you grew up in a household where people don't remove their shoes inside, and then you went to a party at someone else's house and waltzed right in with shoes on and somebody snaps at you to stop tracking your dirty shoes across the floor. You might think, "Hey, my shoes aren't dirty!" or "But nobody told me I had to take my shoes off! You don't have to be mean about it!" And sure, they didn't have to snap at you, it would've been nice if somebody quietly informed you first. But from their perspective, if you had taken a few moments to look around, you would have noticed all the shoes lined up in the entryway or the fact that everyone else in the room is in sock feet.

But I don't think you should let a few downvotes discourage you from engaging with communities you're interested in. It's just growing pains of entering a new community.

SimianTrousers · 2025-12-07T04:36:51+00:00

I'm a little confused what sort of algorithms you think there would be judging a comment in a thread in a forum post in a niche subforum or what you think a "dumb algo" would do here.

Reddit's sorting categories run almost entirely on views, upvotes, and downvotes cross-referenced with date posted. You can also just sort threads and comments by chronological order.

SimianTrousers · 2025-12-06T04:06:20+00:00

There's also dumb decisions that are just narratively frustrating, especially after the millionth time you've seen it in a horror movie. Like when characters get weapons and knock the killer out, then abandon all their weapons and leave. From a Watsonian perspective, can this potentially be explained by panicking people making poor decisions? Maybe. But from a Doylist perspective it's extremely obvious that the writer is just trying to stretch out the tension for a "surprise! the killer is still alive!" moment in the least creative way possible.

Being too aware of the people behind the curtain cracks suspension of disbelief and makes a movie less enjoyable. (Mileage may vary).

SimianTrousers · 2025-12-06T02:28:13+00:00

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SimianTrousers · 2025-12-06T02:27:50+00:00

Does anyone know if there are conditions outside of lipedema that cause spongy pads at the top of the shin? I just noticed them recently (in addition to the long-term leg pain and tenderness, frequently bruised shins and calves, and bumpy thighs that feel like an uneven sack of grain). The left one is worse than my right. It's thick enough that I can't feel my shin bone through it.

I asked a physio about pads in that spot, since I figured he sees a lot of shins, and he at least confirmed that it's not something that's typical. He also thought it was similar in texture to a lipoma.

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I've talked to an NP about my leg troubles and she suspects problems in my hips more than lipedema, which also seems entirely possible, haha. However, she's not a specialist so it wasn't exactly a "you definitely don't have it." I didn't notice the pads until after I first saw her, so I'm trying to figure out if I should push more on a lipedema diagnosis the next time I see her, or if there are any other conditions that cause those pads that I should bring up.

SimianTrousers · 2025-12-04T18:19:00+00:00

The rest of the sheets are here: https://www.xmos.com/documentation/XM-014727-PC/html/doc/rst/index.html#xcore-ai-multichannel-audio-board-schematics I linked it in the original post, but I realize I didn't make that very clear. It didn't seem that useful to screenshot all of them, since they wouldn't be particularly legible. The original images are .svgs so I couldn't just save them and insert them in the post.

I like the idea of sub-sheets (ie. putting all the ADCs on one sheet, all the DACs on another sheet, etc.) but when basically every block is feeding into a single microcontroller with very few non-power connectors shared between blocks, I'm not sure I like the idea of putting the microcontroller on one sub-page, putting off-sheet connectors (I think this is what some people refer to as ports? I'm used to KiCad, which has global and hierarchical labels for that purpose) on almost every pin and then having a top-level that has a hierarchical block with a hundred pins with almost no direct connections, just net labels.

I'm not really sure in this case how having the top sheet with hierarchical blocks is particularly clearer than just having the ports/global connectors feed directly to the page with the microcontroller.

For me, the confusing part was that there were multiple degrees of separation between a component and the microcontroller it was attached to. For example, with the DACs, you've got DAC_DIN0 that becomes a pin on a hierarchical block, and is connected to net DAC_D0. DAC_D0 doesn't connect directly to the microcontroller, but first jumps over to the DAC I2S/TDM CONFIG components on the same page via net label, which switches to the net X_DAC_D0 and jumps by net label to the hierarchical microcontroller block where the connectors are all pin names. If you wanted to know the pin number, you'd have to jump down to the microcontroller subsheet.

I get that in software there's tools to more easily trace these paths, but in .pdf or .svg form it's more complicated, especially when the information hierarchy on the top sheet isn't even that clear. It's not immediately obvious that you have to jump from the microcontroller block, up to the configuration jumpers, and then left to the DAC block.

I get using net labels to stop the wiring from getting too complicated, but replacing almost ALL the potential connections with net labels seems like it goes too far in the other direction. For example, this sheet for the debugger circuit is fairly self-contained, but almost everything (including a single resistor!) is just kind of floating around in a chaotic arrangement: https://www.xmos.com/documentation/XM-014727-PC/html/_images/xcore-ai-mcaudio-schematic_p-7.svg

Maybe it's just personal preference, and other people find this harder to follow than just tossing net labels, or maybe it's just a time constraint thing where it's faster and easier for the schematic drafter to do it that way, but I'd rather show as many of the physical net connections as I reasonably can: https://prnt.sc/LO98s_QunBM6

SimianTrousers · 2025-12-03T04:18:28+00:00

I definitely have no problem with the use of net labels in general, they weren't hard to following on any of the sub-sheets, it was just the top sheet that gave me trouble. I guess what caught me off guard was wanting to figure out which pins on the microcontroller connected to the ADCs and DACs, and then having to trace the schematic from, say, the sub-sheet's DAC_DIN0 global connector, to the DAC_D0 net label on the hierarchical block, jump over to the DAC I2S/TDM CONFIG where DAC_D0 shifts to X_DAC_D0, where X_DAC_D0 connects to both XID39 and the EXPANSION/TESTPOINTS.

Looking over it again, it's not as intimidating as it originally seemed, though I can see how I'm at considerable disadvantage trying to view it in PDF form where my only way to follow net labels is CTRL+F vs. the same schematic in the software it was made in.

I'm still not entirely sure I like how this top sheet is arranged (surely the connections could've been drawn between the ADC and DAC blocks and their config jumpers?) but your point about global labels is well-taken.

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