bknight1983

You had me at Winamp

While I'm impressed with the Bluey example, the lack of Muffin disappoints me.

I'm disappointed I only got a bill for $28M, need to work harder on burning money. Seriously though I thought my life flashed before me

I wouldn't calling it learning more and more like "cycling through SoundBlaster DMA and IRQ options until the sound work". Still, there was an intrinsic curiosity that isn't as prevalent.

YOU CAN'T CUT BACK ON FUNDING! YOU WILL REGRET THIS!!

When you put something out there, there's a question of ownership for how people end up using it. - Some think that "if you use it incorrectly, it's your fault" and probably agree with the statement that Palantir is not an evil software and that one must "change the administration". - Some think that "if you use it incorrectly, it's the creator's fault" and then you have safety labels on everything (see Prop 65).

It's a spectrum of risk between the user and the creator. My opinion is that there's enough scientific evidence that social media to show that it has a negative impact on kids and teenagers as their brains are still developing. I think a social media ban on kids is a good thing (similar to a driver's license or age of drinking).

Normally I don't see people walking down the street staring at their Doritos

I recently started using uuidv5 for ID generation based on a composite key. This allows a more diverse key set for partitioning by UUID

For every example of a bug caused by not using a global variable I’m sure could find 10 caused by a global variable

It’s not about the clinical record; it’s about being able to bill insurance companies without getting the claim rejected. Clinical formats are all over the place (HL7v2, CCDA, FHIR) and the data is garbage. Claim data is clean because you don’t get paid if it’s wrong.

With Epic and Cerner, they offer the full white glove experience plus a reputation for quality billing; plus, they have a larger internal network to pull from for interoperability.

Slightly different take - IBM, along Endicott Johnson Shoes, were companies in the Southern Tier of New York focused on creating a community outside of work. Many people were lifers. My first job out of college was Lockheed in Owego (formerly IBM Federal) and my boss was a 40+ year veteran of IBM/Lockheed. Sadly EJ has been defunct for decades and IBM is a shell of its former self. The Southern Tier also is a shell of its former self

The beauty of Bluey is that, for me at least, all the games were games we played as kids (keepy uppy, shadowlands, mucking around in the stream). Now my kid wants to play these games (and not be on a screen) and I get to play again. Everyone wins

‘Rain’ is special to me because I would do the same thing as a kid, just trodding along and trying to build a dam to hold the water back. My daughter and I do it now when we have a big rain storm

Brings back great memories of my TI-83. Wrote my first program on it (text based SimCity). It’s somewhere on the 10s of 3.5 disks sitting in my closet