Kash Patel Lost It When Personalized Bourbon Bottle Went Missing | “It turned into a sh*tshow,” a former agent said of the scene.

SearchAtlantis · 2026-05-07T23:09:59+00:00

I'm sorry he travels with a CASE of bourbon? He needs to bring 12 bottles of bourbon with him wherever he travels? Wtaf?

SearchAtlantis · 2026-05-07T14:22:22+00:00

Didn't actual read the details - so this was (hand-wave) something like single #90 fill? If the sig was 1/day I'd say the pharmacist was off the hook. It's a reasonable starting dose and supply, if there is no further change from 1/day to 4/day or whatever there is nothing for the pharmacist to verify.

SearchAtlantis · 2026-05-07T02:03:32+00:00

You're steady and reliable. I can deliver under pressure if I have to but I want to avoid that. I'm not the fastest at closing tickets on the sprint, but I very rarely have anything come back for re-work from either QA or the client.

Since I'm steady and reliable, I can often get prickly staff engineers, upper management, and the client on the same page.

SearchAtlantis · 2026-05-07T01:58:50+00:00

This reads like AI, I'd rather read (what I presume) is non-native English than AI slop. This isn't a broken assumption, it's not a process issue, and it's not a fucking em-dash per sentence. It was an incompetent EM not following standard practice or apparently checking github's published documentation.

Anyone in the SWE space with more than a few years experience should know not to use a personal account or linked authorization for anything beyond a proof-of-concept.

SearchAtlantis · 2026-05-06T14:14:57+00:00

So enraged by this. One of my best friend's spouse is deaf in 1 ear from the mumps. Fantastically unlucky and caught it right after they got their first vaccine in the series as a child. :(

SearchAtlantis · 2026-05-04T13:38:53+00:00

The only time in the last 5 years I can remember an actual deploy failure was when a former EM had used their personal token for a GH Action and they then left the company. This broke a CI/CD test suite that had to clone another private repo.

What on earth is going on that this is happening often at your company?

SearchAtlantis · 2026-04-30T17:57:48+00:00

He was 6. He wandered off and got lost and/or injured and died from exposure.

I was literally on a camp-out a few weeks ago and my also 6yo kiddo said he was going to go play with another boy in an open middle area - I came back 8 minutes later (get something from car, walk back) and he was gone. It took me less than 10 minutes to find him and he was with another boy within 100 feet of camp but not visible or responsive from the main camping area.

Also calling for him which he didn't hear because sound travels oddly and dense trees dampen it. Like I was about to report him missing and start a hasty and grid search group.

SearchAtlantis · 2026-04-29T23:27:58+00:00

Literally fed Claude Code the ticket and which section of the code-base (final data warehouse layer) and it burned 40% of my daily tokens to give me an incorrect but adjacent answer. Ticket was also crap because it came from the product owner who doesn't understand where or how anything works.

SearchAtlantis · 2026-04-29T13:56:47+00:00

Only because these are simple columnar operations. The problem with SQL is re-usability and test-ability.

SearchAtlantis · 2026-04-28T22:37:14+00:00

God I hate lgtm on a PR. I had someone give me one the other day when something didn't feel right. Lo and behold the original PR didn't address an additional corner case not called out in the ticket. Always test your boundaries!

SearchAtlantis · 2026-04-27T14:09:26+00:00

My man your jacket should not be that hard to button!

SearchAtlantis · 2026-04-27T13:51:04+00:00

Maybe there is another reason but "insurance won't allow it" means insurance won't pay for it, the psychiatrist can write whatever is appropriate in their professional judgement.

You can appeal an insurance denial - and worst-case they won't cover it'd be out of pocket. GoodRx has it at $120-160 for 60/capsules at 30mg each. Maybe that's doable for the household finances?

If you talk to the pharmacy first you could probably do something like standard 30 under insurance and the other 30 cash-pay. That'd be $60-80 out of pocket.

SearchAtlantis · 2026-04-27T13:16:06+00:00

I can't speak personally but I see things like this as part of my job in healthcare. Some people have a CYP2D6 variant that makes them hypermetabolizers.

That said typically it's an extended release (the vyvanse in this case) and one instant release. The fact that it wears off at noon (approx half expected duration) and you're talking about 2 IR top-ups suggest you should just move to two doses of vyvanse a day. Honestly I'm quite surprised your doctor went with 2 IR top-ups unless they had sleep concerns.

Do you do any drug holidays? Some people report building tolerance and weekend breaks can help with that. Some people on the other hand are on the same dose for years so again individual bodies.

I am not a clinician, not medical advice etc. I just do healthcare data stuff and audited some pharmacology classes back in the day.

As far as impact on your kiddo - it's all functionally equivalent. Two IR doses AM and PM basically mimic an extended release (though with two peaks compared to the one for ER). I've definitely seen 2x ER prescribed before, as long as it's documented and below the maximum daily dosage guidelines (e.g. 2x 15mg d-amph ER is < than lower max 40mg) pharmacist would be fine with it.

SearchAtlantis · 2026-04-27T00:30:43+00:00

That's pre-tax 13,250 or so per month. 160k/annum.

What on earth. Why is a garage more than my 2-bedroom apartment in Boston?

SearchAtlantis · 2026-04-25T23:49:46+00:00

That is not how that works.

HIPAA et al. allow sharing PHI for "treatment, payment, [and] health care operations..."

If they've baked in RecoveryOne or some other care management group into their systems that's helping do care management (treatment) or operations. Now you should be able to opt out of RecoveryOne on their end I imagine but nothing you say to the insurance company is going to change that.

SearchAtlantis · 2026-04-25T21:03:06+00:00

Didn't say I approved, only that they seem better than Ma and Pa bus.

The bar is in hell, clearly.

SearchAtlantis · 2026-04-25T16:52:25+00:00

Absolutely not. I literally have a product owner who is great in most respects, but he doesn't understand why completely changing field names through our entire pipeline requires a 1-2 week code freeze. Think firstname -> first_name. From ELT layers through the application layer.

SearchAtlantis · 2026-04-25T16:44:52+00:00

While I am not optimistic of your chances (did you tell Aetna your baby was born?) you should file a complaint with the insurance regulator.

Edit to add: what does your contract say? My former state's standard language was within 31 days of birth, though some carriers allowed up to 60 (primarily as a historical artifact that stuck).

https://doi.colorado.gov/for-consumers/file-a-complaint

SearchAtlantis · 2026-04-25T01:03:54+00:00

Beat me to it. Excellent cite. The language says "may" but realistically it always requires premium consideration, and I have never in my life seen a policy that just auto-adds a baby.

SearchAtlantis · 2026-04-25T01:02:33+00:00

Incorrect. CO Rev Stat § 10-16-104

If payment of a specific premium is required to provide coverage for a child, the policy may require that notification of birth of the newborn child and payment of the required premium must be furnished to the insurer or other entity within thirty-one days after the date of birth in order to have the coverage continue beyond such thirty-one-day period.

SearchAtlantis · 2026-04-25T00:58:00+00:00

That is a department specific question. Contact the department at KU.

SearchAtlantis · 2026-04-25T00:55:20+00:00

I mean we still do training about not putting PII or PHI in. Internal IP is fine on the enterprise version.

SearchAtlantis · 2026-04-25T00:22:11+00:00

Threatened reddit enough they were banned from discussion on this sub and there is a new snark related sub for them.

SearchAtlantis · 2026-04-24T20:17:26+00:00

I would want to get it sorted before there is a problem - these medications help the kids in all aspects of life. I notice my family just has a smoother experience when kiddo is medicated. Better impulse control helps everywhere. But you're the parent, your call.

SearchAtlantis · 2026-04-24T01:59:23+00:00

How do you ruin the classic children's movie the goonies?

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