Grip test results and brain imaging in the NIH study: Deep phenotyping of PI-ME/CFS, 2024, Walitt et al

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a techie friend told me that instead of building it from the ground up, they'd just bolted it on top of DOS

For backwards compatibility with old software. So the analogy makes additional sense here given that it's likely adaptations on top of old adaptations that gave us this illness. Genetic and epigenetic changes that allowed more humans to survive some diseases, at the cost of future problems. We inherited all the kludge that allowed our ancestors to survive different conditions, and it gave us a huge technical debt. Which just makes the comparison *chef's kiss*.

I wouldn't stretch the software analogy further given the weird history but yeah it makes sense