Charles Engelke

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Developer relations at Google Cloud. Former CTO of Info Tech

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More accurately, the insurance and pharmacy benefit management industries just raked off $85.29 that did not need to be spent on this drug. Mark Cuban's costplusdrugs.com has this for $11.60, no insurance involved. This is a huge part of our spiraling medical expenditures.

longilineal? Really, @nytimes ? You need to suspend whoever wrote that subhead for... however long it takes to atone for it. www.nytimes.com/2024/06/12/a...

Françoise Hardy, Moody French Pop Star, Dies at 80www.nytimes.com With hit songs, a longilineal look and an understated personality, she incarnated a 1960s cool still treasured by the French.

Reskeet with how old you are, using a vague proxy: President Kennedy has been shot. Martin Luther King has been shot. Bobby Kennedy has been shot.

Mild COVID is not to be taken lightly. I had mild COVID last August. Afterwards, one by one, mild symptoms gradually got worse until I'm now too sick to do anything, but not sick enough to do nothing. COVID -> atrial fibrillation -> fluid retention -> stress on heart -> systolic heart failure.

What kind of clueless tech idiot names their health tech company "Atropos", the Fate who cuts mortals' threads to end their lives? www.fiercehealthcare.com/health-tech/...

Atropos Health lands $33M to scale AI-powered real-world evidence, build out pharma partnershipswww.fiercehealthcare.com Atropos Health, maker of a real-world data platform, sits at the intersection of two rapidly growing fields, real-world evidence research and artificial intelligence. | Atropos Health is getting close...

I'm rooting for Catalytic in today's Kentucky Derby. Why? Because that sounds like the names of race horses in Dick Francis novels. No, I don't bet on races professionally. Why do you ask?

TIL* that I have a dry weight and it's 10-15 pounds less than recent weight. Lasix got me down to it and I'm wondering how long I was dragging along that EXTRA water and stressing my heart from it. * from (one of) my cardiologists. Jealous? Get hospitalized and start collecting some of your own!

Somehow my employer figured out I'm in the hospital and texted me an offer to help out. At 5:20 AM. ("Somehow" - my employer is Google.) Then lights on 20 minutes later for a blood draw. 10 minutes later, need to weigh me. To be fair, I had lost 10 pounds since yesterday. Lasix! Sleep? Here? Hah!

I took Florida's required course in "Americanism versus Communism" in twelfth grade. It was surprisingly good. But ever since TWA 800 I've been seeing America adopting the totalitarian practices we were warned about. We've ceded a lot of liberty in the name of security these last few decades.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill requiring public K-12 schools to teach what he called "the truth about the evils of communism"

Florida Schools Must Teach 'Evils Of Communism,' DeSantis Orderswww.huffpost.com A new law requires K-12 schools to teach how communist ideologies "conflict with the principles of freedom and democracy."

Cloud Computing is a great equalizer because it lets SMBs deploy infrastructure just as well as the giants. I'm capping my career working at Google Cloud to help. SMBs - Cloud Next 2024 is a good place to learn more. cloud.withgoogle.com/next/smb#ove...

Experience Google Cloud Next ’24cloud.withgoogle.com It's backkkkk! Experience the new way to cloud at #GoogleCloudNext April 9-11 in Las Vegas. Join me for three days of captivating keynotes, immersive info sessions, deep-dive demos, and apt applicatio...

When did airports decide their maps should be 3D, tiltable, rotatable, and IMPOSSIBLE to actually use? My actual airport experience is relentlessly 2D. I do not soar above the concourse. I do not spin around. I do wander the runways. I want to pan and zoom without the map flying all over the place.

Atrius Mapsmaps.torontopearson.com

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#there_oughta_be_a_law that if I grudgingly pay to remove ads from the service I already pay for and then you show me ads, I get $1 million.

Peacock is doing a terrible job with the Dolphins/Chief game. First, they advertised it starting at 4:30 PT, but after 5, I see no indication that it's going to start anytime soon. Second, the app on Google TV is crap. You can't jump forward or back, or see content you FF or REW over. Just awful.

Monday's Slate Daily Quiz slate.com/news-and-pol... was on vocabulary, and my 280/300 got me 11th place overall. Today I came back to earth with their quiz on "culture" slate.com/news-and-pol.... Is 0 out of 300 a good score?

I'm seeing lots of people saying courts should not keep Trump off the ballot, because that's not their role. But what if Obama ran for president? Would he be allowed on the ballot? Nope. Why is it okay to enforce the 22nd Amendment but not the 14th Amendment against Trump?

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Three years ago, a routine mammogram saved my life. Off for my yearly checkup today, and hoping I'm still in the clear. Anyone due for their checkup this month, please don't put it off - early diagnosis really makes all the difference...

Today's a big day for AI at Google Cloud as Gemini is announced. I've been meaning to get deeper into what's available for a while, so I took Duet AI for Developers for a spin. I ended up being surprised at how easily I got some useful pair coding going with my AI partner! Worth trying out.

Great article on the great Cuban sandwich at www.nytimes.com/2023/11/24/d... . One error: the article says there is no "right way" to make a Cuban sandwich. There damn well is! It must use Tampa style Cuban bread, include salami, and be pressed. I'll be in Tampa in a week and I'm getting one then.

The History of the Cuban Sandwichwww.nytimes.com An illustrated look at how the pressed sandwich became storied in Tampa, Fla., Miami and beyond.

The Washington Post has published a story and photos that NOBODY wants to read, but EVERYBODY needs to. Stop talking around the problem. Stop looking away. We need to force legislators to take action to stop this. I'm moaning and crying in pain at these photos. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/inter...

Terror on repeat: A rare look at the devastation caused by AR-15 shootingswww.washingtonpost.com Photos, videos and personal accounts show how the AR-15 has given assailants the power to instantly turn everyday gathering places into zones of gruesome violence.

Except for the accent color, Sarah Huckabee Sanders's $19,000 lectern looks almost exactly like this $944 Amazon one: www.amazon.com/Lectern-Port.... (Story source: www.seattletimes.com/nation-world...).

$19,000 lectern for Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders sparks call for auditwww.seattletimes.com Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders is facing scrutiny over the purchase of a $19,000 lectern and the handling or records surrounding it.

The cafe at work has apparently subscribed to 60s cover song Muzak. Just heard a remake of Bridge Over Troubled Water that felt the original was way too fast. At times I thought the singer had forgotten his job and left the studio between verses.

"Spa water" is just a homeopathic smoothie.

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