Yup. I’m Bo7a.

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Cake day: June 6th, 2023

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  • Yup.

    I smoked a pack a day for roughly 30 years. My night time breathing was getting ugly and my wife would sometimes get woken up by the sound of my wheezing.

    Every method of quitting failed me except vaping. I started as most do with a high nicotine vape juice that tasted like tobacco, but after about a month I swapped and started going lower and lower nicotine and change the flavor from tobacco to a custardy type.

    2 months of that got me off the cigs. Two more months got me down to zero nicotine. Two or three more months after that I was done.

    I have been off cigs for 7 years.

    My breathing no longer feels wet or difficult at night. And My yearly health tests all come back the same as a non-smoker.







  • I feel this - I’m often on the other end working with data from clinicians in the field for massive studies. The forms that come in can have an infinite number of possibilities just for noting sex. Enough so that our semantic layer needs a human reviewer because we keep finding new ways field clinicians have of noting this. Now imagine that over the whole gamut of identifiers.

    tl:dr - Humans are almost always the problem in data harmonization.


  • Why even type this out?

    Do you just like arguing stupid points for fun even when you know yourself that you are wrong?

    Have you never seen an automotive touchscreen before?

    Even within one model/brand there are a ton of panes, and layouts. And even when you choose one layout, which apps are open changes the location and size of the buttons. Now add into that multiple brands, models, layout, and years… And your comment gets more worthless at every step.

    Beyond that. The screen doesn’t use haptic feedback to tell you where your fingers are so that the parts of your brain that evolved to handle that kind of context can use it without your fucking eyes. ‘Oh I touched the round thing, I know there are 4 rectangles next to this’ is a built-in feedback loop that a touchscreen does not provide at this time.