--who will happily listen to infodumps about the special interests of autistic people all day no matter what they are because autistic people are absolutely fucking FANTASTIC at knowing and communicating all the weird details I live for, I could listen to him for HOURS about his tactics

If they deny it, have your doctor ask, in writing:
- the name, license number, and board specialty of the doctor who denied care;
- copies of all materials they relied on to justify that denial;
- the rate at which that doctor denies this treatment as compared to all doctors doing medical review

Remember: Ethical doctors who care about patients and practice competent medicine do not work for insurance companies doing "peer consults", because ethical doctors who practice competent medicine don't actually like denying care. The doctors doing this are the dregs of the dregs.

The lessons for heavy DIYers to take from this, btw:

If your doctor says your insurance won't approve a newly-released drug you really want to try, don't despair. Ask them if they're willing to do a "peer to peer" if you draft the justification for them to edit to save time.

But the gatekeeping assholes keep arguing for requiring lab test confirmation! Except THEY USE THE TESTS WRONG. Mast cell episodes triggered by histamine exposure can be detected by lab testing! FOR TWENTY MINUTES TO TWO HOURS AFTER THE EXPOSURE ONLY.

Yeah, diachronically i expect it probably was metathesis; especially given the differences between British R vs American bunched-R. Though given the state of the modern rhotic vowels, i wouldn't be surprised if that was already blurring in OE/ME, which would also explain the spelling alternation

Although I've been enjoying the show precisely because of the way it complicates certain things, dancing around those lines is always fraught, and at any point they could misstep in a way that poisons the entire show.

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Burying their gays. Making the protagonist rich af. Making the Indian woman an angry Indian woman, and the foil to the white woman. Making the darkest person hypersexual. Not having any Black folks. Frankly, not having any non-USA white folks.
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Oh absolutely.

I've been really enjoying how they complicate certain lines (e.g, experiencing sympathy towards folks who are *not* Sympathetic Characters™️) — but they have definitely made some Choices:

It's that special genre that's a comedy to the viewer but a tragedy to the characters

The critique still stands, of course

Though given as *everyone* we've met by that point is apparently okay with things, i think it's more that Carole is the whitest white woman that ever did white.

The Mongolian was a guy; the girl was Quechuan

Personally i felt like the Chinese woman was just being reserved about her discontent, as she did raise several complaints (giraffes, her dog,...)

That is, i feel like the English root is /θr̩/. And that's what occurs overtly in /θr̩/+/d/=/θr̩d/ and /θr̩/+/tiːn/=/θr̩.tiːn/. Whereas "three" behaves as if undergoing the process /θr̩/+/iː/>/θriː/, though of course that's not an actual process but rather a historical preservation

I'm forgetting the Dutch offhand, but for English i personally wouldn't call it metathesis — but then I'm of the unorthodox opinion that English has vocalic /r/ (and /l/, /n/), so i think of these as something a bit more like eclipsis/epenthesis

Not sure if that answers your question, but I'm game to chat more (modulo NDA)

Alas, we never did get the chance to release our tooling for flattening the stack into fewer layers. But i did learn a lot about the capitalistic forces that'll actively inhibit anyone trying to release such tooling. I still think it's doable, but it'd take some finesse

Overall i think our approach is feasible and replicable for other HW design projects — at least for folks who are amenable to Haskell's pure-functional-programming philosophy, and keen enough to learn the entire HW-design stack. (It may also work outside those stringent conditions, i couldn't say)

For the chip itself, like i said, we did everything in-house except the fab. We gave a talk (keynote?) at one of the ICFP workshops, and got some patents. I had a draft for another paper, but it and everything else was hushed up when we got bought

Our main thing was the ASIC. The FPGA part was just for the serdes to get things onto / off of the chip, and was an fpga just in case we needed to make changes to the communication protocol; so not much interesting going on there I'm afraid