hairywalt

Yep, a few days of olive oil is generally recommended by GPs... I used to do this but now I self treat I don't really bother. But I guess it I'd have even more success if I did.

Here's a UK study that concludes:

"Advising patients with ears blocked by wax to try bulb syringing before irrigation is effective and acceptable, and could significantly reduce the use of NHS resources."

So I feel they are a safe method of self treatment.

Those never did much for me I'm afraid

Under $100

- an ear bulb syringe

I get blocked ears due to wax and it's really negatively impactful to conversation etc. Plus they would block when flying/swimming which ruined a few holidays. I used to go to my local (UK) GP which was very inconvenient due to appointment timings etc.

Then somebody recommended buying a bulb syringe for self-treatment. Mine cost about £4 and has been totally game changing.

I can sort myself out whenever and wherever I want. If you suffer the same, get yourself one immediately!

Makes sense, cheers. Might give it a go

Love the simplicity of this. Out of interest, do you trigger just the web player or is there a URL pattern that can launch onto a specific device?

Yep, I'm struggling to find a use outside of computer science where I'm starting to suspect it originated

Cheers for these, appreciate everybody taking a look.

You've given good examples of what I am finding myself... your Researchgate link is indeed aeronautical, but is also a software machine learning related paper from 2023. So unfortunately doesn't prove this doesn't come from the modern software usage rather than the other direction.

And when I read the second Wikipedia entry previously I'd hoped to see an attribution... So could very well be correct, just there is no reference to look up.

That would make sense, and was something I'd heard but I'm struggling to find an actual example of usage?

When I previously looked into the examples returned, most were accidental connections across a sentence boundary in scientific papers e.g. "Case 1 - both poles on the edge. Case 2 - ..."

The ones that related to aerospace seemed to refer to leading edge and trailing edge which doesn't seem to fit the modern meaning?