atourgates

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by atourgates 2mo ago
I wouldn't be surprised if AI was used to generate it. But it mostly feels that way becuase it uses Astro. There's no other obvious AI tells.
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by atourgates 2mo ago
1. No, they ride in the rain all the time. 2. It's not so much that the white shit (actually lime) is slippery, it's that it's unexpectedly slippery. Riders are generally quite good at going the right speed for the condition
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by atourgates 2mo ago
Several riders independently crashed in the exact same spot, including Pidcock who is a famously good descender. These are literally world class professionals at riding their bikes downhill around corners without crashing. If they say the
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by atourgates 2mo ago
They really have tried. They don't have the type of insane cashflow that RedBull does to sponsor tons of athletes and weird events, but their video contests are kind of a big deal in the action sports community. AKA, their Line of the
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by atourgates 2mo ago
Having owned a number of GoPros, I made the same switch last year. The Insta360 has super annoying/intrusive software that always feels like it's trying to sell me something, but it's pretty excellent in terms of actual video
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by atourgates 2mo ago
In a somewhat related practice, some roads in the Tour de France this year have been painted with "white shit" (rider Tom Pidcock's words) in order to combat the asphalt melting in the heat, with the unfortunate side-effect t
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by atourgates 2mo ago
That’s cool. Our local trail association did that. Well, actually we went from an old “become a member to download GPS files” to “go find the trails on Trailforks” But that was when Trailforks was more open and less locked down. We’ve disc
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by atourgates 2mo ago
That's a cool project. Sort of a more open Trailforks alternative?
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by atourgates 2mo ago
More accurately, "bans day trippers on Sundays." > Visitors who book guesthouse rooms in Mawlynnong through Saturday and Sunday are exempt from the Sunday ban.
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by atourgates 3mo ago
> Not to mention it is slightly unethical in the US due to drug rebates incentivizing branded drug use. This is an area I'm only perephrially aware of, but the way I understand it is: * Manufacturer sells very expensive injectible e
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by atourgates 3mo ago
I have a little insight here from working with ophthalmologists. When the article mentions "using a cancer drug to treat a leading cause of blindness" it's talking about using Bevacizumab (brand name Avastin) to treat macular
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by atourgates 4mo ago
This is far more hilarious than most commentors here seem to be picking up on. Gemini started a show where it paired historical natural disasters with darkly-relevant pop songs: > November 12, 1970. East Pakistan. The Bhola Cyclone. The
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by atourgates 5mo ago
DIY is viable if you're a bit nutters (like me). I just paid ~$35k (pre-now-expired-tax-break) to install a grid-tied 25kw ground mount system. I DIY'd everything except the connection between the array and the grid, which I paid
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by atourgates 7mo ago
I’d love to get the reaction if all the VC investors who “reluctantly” had to support Trump because Lina Kahn was just too meddlesome, and they had to support a candidate who would be hands off with big tech.
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by atourgates 7mo ago
Yes. To be fair, I was always a barbarian who just typed a hyphen in-place of an emdash and figured that was good enough. The only REAL em-dashes in my pre-AI writing are the result of autocorrect.
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by atourgates 7mo ago
Shoutout to my English Major comrades who have been using em-dashes forever, and have had to stop so we don't sound like AI. If AI starts use the New Yorker style diaeresis (umlaut-looking thing when there are two vowels in words like
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by atourgates 10mo ago
Beyond any clinical reason that your eye clinic might want to know your blood pressure (your vascular system is pretty important to your vision) - they may have been incentivized by the CMS to track blood pressure via the MIPS program which
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by atourgates 10mo ago
Open source was the wrong term (though that would be fine). I meant community-sourced. Some kind of community where local "experts" or history enthusiasts could contribute info. AKA - invite a local or regional historical society
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by atourgates 10mo ago
This was interesting: > Still, Mixter and the team were labeled "ghouls and pirates," and "the state of Michigan actually passed a law against recording bodies on shipwrecks that are less than 50 years old," he said.
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by atourgates 10mo ago
Ever since I discovered Gypspy nearly a decade ago (now Guidealong https://guidealong.com/ ) - I've been dreaming of an open source app that'd pull local history from sources like Wikipedia, those roadside historic
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by atourgates 11mo ago
"I noticed you had Yoplait brand yogurt in your fridge. Here's a coupon for $0.75 off your first six-pack of Chobani!"
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by atourgates 11mo ago
I hope you do! I'm skeptical of v1 of this technology, but I could imagine a mature version of this technology could be great. And $500/mo for essentially an always-available housekeeper seems very reasonable. Where I live, having
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by atourgates 11mo ago
I broadly disagree. Yes - Medicare is typically lower than private insurance plans, but if you can't deliver care for the reimbursement that Medicare offers as a health system/plan/office/provider, you're probably o
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by atourgates 11mo ago
Yes. Though I think technically none of that happened here. If I sound like I'm defending the morality of the hospital for billing a private individual $190k for services they'd expect to be paid $37k for, please know that I&#x27
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by atourgates 11mo ago
What the author calls criminal is the way hospitals typically bill Medicare and private insurance providers. If the OPs brother-in-law had had insurance, the hospital would have billed the insurance company the same $195k (albeit with CPT c
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by atourgates 11mo ago
I've been using ChatGPT fairly regularly for about a year. Mostly as an editor/brainstorming-partner/copy-reviewer. Lots of things have changed in that year, but the things that haven't are: * So, so many em-dashes. All
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by atourgates 1y ago
Semi-unrelated, but that photo is taken from the Hyatt Regency Lake Washington, which looks over Boeing's Renton facility from many of the rooms. Nice hotel on its own (though a bit out of the way from most Seattle tourist stuff), but
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by atourgates 1y ago
I was joking about the billion dollar idea. My actual "MVP" was some kind of automated neighborhood newsletter, that'd monitor emergency services radio traffic, and put together some kind of "here's what happened in
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by atourgates 1y ago
A few months ago when there was a lot of emergency services activity in my area and I didn't know why, I was reminded that no-one in my region is contributing a feed to Broadcastify. I went down the tunnel of using SDR to recieve those
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by atourgates 2y ago
The Pre was absolutely rad - and to this day the only phone I miss from a UI perspective, and the only UX and hardware that I thought had a chance of "out Apple'ing Apple". The hardware was very well done, and I could type fa

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