lvspiff
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Comment · 2 months ago
Right? This isnt the first chapter in a long story to come. This is the middle of the book where the villain has all but the final stone of the gauntlet but rather than put up a strong resistance we appear to have elected sycophants who are just watching and saying “dont let him get that stone”
Comment · 2 months ago
Less Snydley Whiplash and more the pig guy from captain planet though
Comment · 3 months ago
Art is in the eye of the beholder and If someone likes something AI generated and it still came from someone who had the idea did it not? What if the artist is blind or disabled? AI is now giving them a chance to express themselves as they otherwise might not have been able to.
Comment · 3 months ago
The best waterparks in Tucson, AZ were on the outskirts of the city and worked great as a place to "travel" to for the parents as the kids would be wiped out on the way back. Breakers....Justins....how i miss those days of running around on hot pavement or gravel in bare feat only to also step on some cactus...
Comment · 5 months ago
The biggest hurdle i face with interoperability is getting people to buy into the standard. working with (https://www.hl7.org/fhir/R4/)[FHIR] it seems like 90% of the objection is that the standard is to use unstructured json to request/respond. To many out there it feels like this is a completely foregin concept. I even have some staff engineers balk at the idea of using FHIR because its not going to conform to any ORM package. As this article says with standards comes maintenance and this is why the FHIR spec is constantly evovling with new versions and updates and even the ability to create your own implementation guide.
It is the standard in healthcare though. The world is using it to exchange data for both payor and clinical. The US has mandated the use of it for healthcare. Its built into Apple and Samsung Health apps. You can get your entire FHIR chart via mychart (epic) instances (along with many other EHR systems). And yet I'm having to prove out why we shouldnt use custom structured ORM models to translate in/back because many have grown so accustomed to it.
Comment · 6 months ago
At first I was thrown off by everyone calling him "Tim Cook"... we all know its pronounced "Tim Apple"
Comment · 7 months ago
I had a relative who setup a kinda "blockbuster" type service recording things and offering them out for rental. It really took off for VHS when he got HBO and recorded movies and then rented those. It wasnt a very lucrative hustle but it was an instance of what they didnt want to have happen
Comment · 7 months ago
If school busses can look both ways before crossing train tracks you'd think a firetruck would look both ways for airplanes coming down a runway. Don't want to blame the firemen though - this was a series of extrmeemly unfortuante scenarios and people trying to keep the airport running safely. For years people have been on soap boxes saying the FAA/NTSB needs to do better, and yet year after year they are poorly run and poorly funded.
Comment · 7 months ago
its the only path to go to be able to continue to support their pricing models - they've priced the consumer/pro-sumer out of the market prettymuch and so B2B is the more sustainable paying population.
Comment · 7 months ago
Living in Portland I meet SOOOO many tech people that live across the river in Vancouver just because of the income tax - WA has none - OR has a healthily number of them (5 lines worth of various taxes show up on my paystub).
Bigger impact im sure will be Seattle but the impact to Portland is not insignificant. I'm sure the WA tax would be less than the OR one though so I don't see the moves stopping, but probably akin to whats happened in CA where people moved to NV or AZ to escape some of the taxes (not a significant number but ive met enough to wonder). As people retire, they moved away to those places as they think they will be taxed less
Comment · 8 months ago
They are lifelong drugs though - you go off it and the weight and “food noise” come back. If you grow to used to them you have to switch from ozempic to moniourno to whatever diff thing then circle around again.
Not saying the effort is the same just that its def not a decision to take lightly and just start doing thinking its a few shots and bam your down 50 lbs forever - still have to do the mental reprogramming to not eat the bad stuff and exercise regularly
Comment · 8 months ago
The most noticeable jump has been at 10mg but i started noticing it from the beginning of 2.5 to 5 to 7.5 over a 6 month period but something about 10 just hit different but only on my 2nd month of it now. Less anxiety about things i was hit by before and mood improved overall
Comment · 8 months ago
Well you take this sharpie and draw a line and bam direct line of attack - if it works for hurricanes it will work for war plans
Comment · 8 months ago
I can hear russia/iran now “darn they thwarted our plans to take out el paso and that mountain. There are absolutely zero other targets in the vicinity we can fly to. Zero in a 100 mile radius our drone has a capability to get to within 10 days. I mean if we had 11 days sure but how do they know 10 days???”
Comment · 8 months ago
If there was ever a time for a Mars Attacks style invasion it is now