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by commandar 7y ago
>Why isn't the DNC harder on crap like this? Well, for starters, because the DNC doesn't run the Iowa caucus.
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by commandar 7y ago
Exactly. From the perspective of high level decision makers, PaaS is heading toward being a commodity good, so differentiating your platform can be what makes a deal and making regulatory compliance "easy" in heavily regulated ind
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by commandar 7y ago
>They pick Azure because somewhere along the line the mid- and upper-level managers, including director-level IT people, have been made to believe that anything other than Windows is insecure and not suitable for HIPAA. I'd argue it
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by commandar 7y ago
>Make the common case fast. There is no reason to expose all possible complexity to every transaction. Hint: addressing that is exactly what HL7 has been doing for over 30 years . The easy parts are easily solved because they're
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by commandar 7y ago
>I see things like this in healthcare constantly. Cosign. I worked in healthcare for the better part of a decade and spent just over five years of that doing data interchange (mostly HL7). It's always somewhat amusing when threads a
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by commandar 7y ago
>This is amazing work from Valve, but I have to admit some fear that it'll eventually stop. They started to put a lot of work into Linux gaming/Steam Machines when the Microsoft Store was a potential existential threat on Windo
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by commandar 7y ago
FWIW, and with minimal snark, they literally went all the way to SCOTUS to blur the line between the two.
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by commandar 7y ago
The Unabomber was turned in by his brother, who recognized some unique phrasing in the released manifesto and reported it to authorities. EDIT: After looking, it looks like the brother turned him in after having this sort of analysis done
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by commandar 7y ago
This is how Pragmatic Programmer distributes their ebooks. I think it's a really good compromise, personally.
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by commandar 8y ago
>The aversion to the command line is also something that bothers me but I don't run into it as much in my field. The company I recently started with is really big on Splunk. The fact that they're proud enough of coming up with
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by commandar 8y ago
>For whatever reason, Nvidia hasn't stagnated the way Intel has. Nvidia doesn't fab their own chips and never had a process lead. People underestimate just how huge a deal Intel's traditional lead in fabrication tech was.
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by commandar 8y ago
They also launched and owned Discover up until 1993, so they even had in-house payment processing.
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by commandar 8y ago
One things that can be confusing/frustrating to many people about geopolitics is that there's a substantial body of "agreed upon" fiction. These are positions that are held officially by numerous, competing state actors
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by commandar 8y ago
Honestly, my bigger issue with Amazon is the fact that they have a real problem with counterfeits and the way the comingle FBA inventory without any indication to the buyer makes it impossible to avoid by buying from trusted sellers. It&#x2
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by commandar 8y ago
That'd be ideal, yes, but I'll take 6k mg over 6g when mg are the working units every time. The k makes it much more explicit that there was a shift in magnitude than just silently converting between units.
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by commandar 8y ago
Using SI doesn't mean you shouldn't maintain consistency between units you're actively comparing to avoid inadvertent conversion error. If your working units are mg, using mg across the board is completely sensible. It lowers
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by commandar 8y ago
>Calculating taxes is a giant pain Depends on the state. In Georgia, you can go to the Department of Revenue's site, punch in a VIN or year/model of a car, and get the exact ad valorem that would be due when buying a car. It ma
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by commandar 8y ago
>"Organic" is a marketing term, not a descriptor of the production process. I generally agree with this, but with the caveat that tomatoes are an exception as I understand it. It's nothing to do with being GMO or pesticide
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by commandar 8y ago
> If the USPS is cheaper than these global shippers for the last-mile deliver, it might be a sign that they're not charging enough. Conversely, it could be an indication of leveraging efficiency of scale. USPS sends a mail carrier t
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by commandar 9y ago
Walmart and Sam's Club have exactly that with their Pay & Go app. You scan the UPCs on things as you put them in your cart. When you're done, you select pay and it displays a barcode on your screen. The checker at the door has
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by commandar 9y ago
>Microsoft has one included with Outlook whose name escapes me. Mircrosoft's current stab at this is called Teams. I think it actually has potential: it's pretty much a clone of Slack, except that MS is willing to declare it co
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by commandar 9y ago
RAM prices are through the roof as well. SSD seems to finally be stabilizing somewhat though.
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by commandar 9y ago
>Maybe so, but I would argue a lot of the key information isn't that different for each type of medical event. Well, I mean, that's pretty much the entire basis of the HL7 segment paradigm. >- Patient it relates to This is a
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by commandar 9y ago
The standard will generally get you 80-90% of the way there. There are a lot of factors that go into why the standard fails to be plug-and-play. The fact that v2 is essentially a glorified, somewhat standardized CSV instead of a prettie
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by commandar 9y ago
We're certainly starting to see a gradual transition over to XML/JSON via FHIR, and I've even worked with a couple of vendors that are pushing RESTful web services as their preferred integration method, but agreed: there&#x27
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by commandar 9y ago
Not the poster you were replying to, but I do healthcare data integration for my day job. The problem is that HL7 is ostensibly a standardized interchange format, but there's enough ambiguity in the spec that literally every vendor imp
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by commandar 9y ago
> most businesses still use Windows And Microsoft has been pushing businesses increasingly toward technologies like Powershell and products like SCCM in the past decade. The trend is slower in the Microsoft world, but it's definitel
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by commandar 9y ago
>I remember that router had 16 MiB RAM, and a 125 MHz MIPS CPU That was the case back then, but newer routers have to be a lot beefier just to handle the throughput of faster net connections. I've got a WRT1900ACS running OpenWRT&
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by commandar 9y ago
Yeah, it's the reason I just went straight to tearing them all out. There is literally nothing ADT's whitelabeled sensors do that standard Z-Wave devices can't at a third the price -- or less! -- without tying me to any speci
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by commandar 9y ago
Most whitelabel home automation stuff runs on the Z-Wave protocol. Zigbee is also fairly popular for some applications; it's what e.g., Philips Hue runs on. Devices using either of these will generally pair with any hub with the appr

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