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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 pre…

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 …

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…

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 lifer…

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 gam…

‘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…

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

My sister and I used to play Mindmaze for hours during the summer in the 90s. Encarta was such a great resource at the time.

I hope you agree then it’s not a water fountain but rather a water bubblah

Technically yes but in the context of the basketball team it’s only soft C

Wellness calls are also a starting point for shared savings and other value-based contracts

There’s also the debate around a corporate daycare (Bright Horizons, Goddard, Primrose) and at home daycare. I was a child of at home daycare by one woman who is literally my secon…

The risk is exponentially higher as the 409a goes up. That said, given your current life (single, 20s, with some cash on hand and truly vested in a company) and the total cost to e…

Elliott Management took an activist role at SalesForce recently, I suspect this is the first of many ways Elliott will look to remove people without the need of severence. This hap…

Getting a CATIAv4 plugin to install on AFS on AIX across Lockheed. That’s when I learn anything is possible with sh (yes, sh, not bash)

I live in the northeast with a Chevy Bolt (now with a battery that doesn’t explode). I did have to buy snow tires and have to swap them bi-annually. Still I agree with the OP that …

Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff by Richard Carlson. Very centering and good way to lead life. That or Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy

Highly recommend reading “Confederates in the Attic” by Tony Horwitz. It gave a better view of the South’s psyche around the Civil War

If only Office on macOS actually worked as well as its Windows counterpart