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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


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


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