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  • The part I think most Americans don't realize it's this:

    In Canada, when I don't feel well, I go get it looked at. I barely need ID (and when I broke my arm I forgot it at home). I don't need to provide proof of insurance or a visa card, butnindomhave a medical number for records segregation.

    My point is, healthcare in Canada at its current and worst post-covid state, is still a "here is my body please fix it KThx" setup, and it's comically more easy than the in-network/out-network who-bills-whom and how-will-you-be-paying mess that is America; and comically more easy while Americans don't realize it that I get stressed just remembering it from when I was there.

    You don't need good health care for better pricing, although that just happens. You need better healthcare so you don't have to micromanage how you're getting it. Healthcare in the entire rest of the g7 is just so vastly different in ways Americans largely don't even realize.

  • There's absolutely no win there. I have a similar experience just before COVID, and the only saving grace was all his treatment - and the cost when he chose plan B - were both readily available and both cost-free.

    It's unmitigated cruelty that you need to grieve while dealing with that healthcare system; and second-guess with the what-if thoughts as well.

    We tell the stories of the people we lost in COVID, and it helps to laugh together, and I hope you have a similar outlet to make room for some peace eventually.

  • We’ve been churning though Java technical debt for the past year and a huge pain point is that a lot of configuration gets lost within intelliJ.

    You've lost Single Source of Truth.

    “Make files really are the only correct way to distribute software”.

    Nope. They're the best way to build your immutable artifacts. Building packages, though, should not be done inside your makefile but by the packaging layer that should sit outside the makefile: horse before the cart and never after. I say this knowing that older/crippled packaging formats and processes do this wrong. We have 3 decades of knowledge to leverage and we still get drek like IP5, but it's a revelation to understand you need to keep the layers distinct.

  • ask questions during installation in an interactive and non interactive way (debconf).

    Debs always had weak validation, but here you're introducing a consistency weakness, which is the second pillar of enterprise packaging. You're not moving the art forward by kicking out its legs.