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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Applying 'extreme heat' to lithium-ion batteries reportedly restores their capacity, and I think it's the sustainable tech breakthrough of 2025⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Well if it was a human it wouldn’t be a peer, would it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla (TSLA) has to replace computer in ~4 million cars or compensate their owners⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s the drawback when “everything’s computer” in a Tesler

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Describe conservatives with one picture⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The irony of the Reddit banner saying you should stay on Reddit for the empathy

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you believe it?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  When the pot hits just right

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How a false X post about pausing tariffs led to multi-trillion-dollar market swings.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Someone made millions off of that Xeet.

  I prefer to call them Xcrements

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The White House orders federal agencies to name chief AI officers and expand the use of AI, rescinding Biden-era orders intended to place AI safeguards.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If the safeguards can be so easily removed, what’s the point of putting them there in the first place

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Maybe it's just a human thing.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You implied that an egalitarian person doesn’t have the goal of furthering equality, did you not?

  The Wikipedia article on egalitarianism says:

  By promoting equal opportunities, egalitarianism aims to level the playing field and reduce disparities that result from social inequalities.

  and

  Egalitarian doctrines have supported many modern social movements, including the Enlightenment, feminism, civil rights, and international human rights.

  Do you not feel that what you claim and what Wikipedia says are in conflict? At any rate, what I mean by being egalitarian is also to work toward achieving an egalitarian society and I do work toward that goal in practice as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Maybe it's just a human thing.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I disagree and as far as I can tell, so does Wikipedia.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Maybe it's just a human thing.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I prefer to call myself egalitarian

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Maybe it's just a human thing.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The number of assholes calling themselves feminists vastly outnumber the actual feminists.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The cat turns him in⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I love me some multi-meme drifting

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Get that Musky Grindset going⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What happened?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Today's Survey. One point for everything that you have NEVER DONE⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I hate to break it to you but… millennials are old

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨- Buy Once Software⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, as long as it works. Software has a tendency to stop working on newer OS:es or become subject to security exploits though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨- Buy Once Software⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That sounds good on paper, but the chances that someone else will pick up the ball if they abandon it, even if it’s open source, are very slim. If you care about keeping it alive then paying them is a more effective strategy than hoping for random volunteer work by internet strangers.

  You, on the other hand, have good chances of being able to learn new tools. So I think the need for this guarantee is exaggerated.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨- Buy Once Software⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The IntelliJ products are not exactly “buy once” - if you want updated versions you need to keep paying periodically.

  Not that I think that’s a bad thing necessarily - it doesn’t make sense to expect devs to continue working on something year after year when you’re not paying them for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ghibli posting⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Come on. Public figures need to be able to deal with satire and mockery, and this isn’t even a deep cut. Besides, have you seen how Miyazaki treats his family? That man has no empathy or humanity to offer his peers either.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ghibli posting⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds to me like Miyazaki needs to lighten up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Something Bizarre Is Happening to People Who Use ChatGPT a Lot⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I use it many times a day for coding and solving technical issues. But I don’t recognize what the article talks about at all. There’s nothing affective about my conversations, other than the fact that using typical human responses (like “thank you”) seems to increase the chances of good responses. Which is not surprising since it matches the patterns that you want to evoke in the training data better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Great Advice⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The alot looks like it could easily eat 7 tacos and still be hungry

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Finally, a Linux laptop with a brilliant display and performance that rivals my MacBook (from Germany)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  echo “Xft.dpi: 210” >> ~/.Xresources

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft's many Outlooks are confusing users and employees⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, Teams is horrible - but at least it only affects people who use Teams. Whereas the abysmal UI and worthless templates in MS Word affects every person who has to read anything produced with MS Word too. It’s designed to make documents ugly and hard to read.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft's many Outlooks are confusing users and employees⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think about the productivity lost because people use Microsoft Word and Microsoft PowerPoint every day. Maybe even multiple times a day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OneNote to perish alongside Windows 10.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Amen. There were actually three Teams clients at the same time (the Windows 11-bundled Teams “personal version”, Teams [for business] and Teams [the new version]). Not to mention they also have Skype for Business (which is actually Lync rebranded, which is Communicator rebranded) which is not interoperable at all with Teams even though it’s also an Office 365 app. And of course, Skype for Business is a completely different code base than Skype.

  It’s a complete and utter shitshow and I can’t fathom why heads aren’t rolling at Microsoft. Makes me think of this email from Bill Gates back in the day. If he was CEO now he would be fuming.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zen browser had a backdoor enabled by default⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree. That response made me lose any trust I had and I actually went to verify that I didn’t still have Zen browser installed from some earlier test run. He sounds like a script kiddie.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI, in partnership with MIT, releases its first study on how ChatGPT use affects emotional well-being: Study Links Between ChatGPT Use and Loneliness.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes based on my experience with the world (and really just common sense), the most likely causal link here is that being lonely causes you to both talk with ChatGPT more and to use affective language in your conversation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zen browser had a backdoor enabled by default⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s weird link to this issue with that title, since the problem is only referenced in the discussion. The actual backdoor issue is here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No title⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s the story with this guy?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chromecast (2nd gen) and Audio cannot Cast in 'Untrusted' outage⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks! I didn’t know about these.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chromecast (2nd gen) and Audio cannot Cast in 'Untrusted' outage⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s nothing else like the Chromecast audio, and it’s a crying shame that Google discontinued them. I have four and rely on them every day. I sure hope they will fix this issue.