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CaptPretentious

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  • Asus and Dell announce new mini PCs for Windows 365 | Goodbye local OS

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  • Yep, just looking at it screams thin client. This will have just enough for networking (wifi/bluetooth), running three monitors (no gaming), some 3.5mm audio, and usb 2.0. If it's business focues, probably some remote mgmt stuff, and maybe a default VPN client.

  • Potato burritos

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  • Imo, could do with a bit of beans. But regardless looks good.

  • Burger King will use AI to check if employees say ‘please’ and ‘thank you’

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  • I already wasn't eating BK. And this makes me want to even less. The fake/forced "friendliness" I personally find off-putting. It's like Chick-fil-a they have to say "my pleasure". Just some force creepy cult vibes (for some very mediocre food). Idk, maybe it's me, but knowing someone is being micro-enslaved (sorry, "managed") just rubs me the very wrong way.

    Plus side, my hatred for AI and all these places forcing it on customers, I've spent WAY less money eating out and have been eating way better. So silver lining I suppose.

  • That's How

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  • People who reject challenging ideas as stupid without engagement are like intellectual nepobabies

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  • Yep, whole lot of people echo what they read in they're social media echo chambers. Feelings and opinions thrown around like they are facts.

    Granted this problem has always existed but I believe the overuse of the internet and social media has made it worse.

    Prime example, bunch my friends who would definitely be Democrat voters (just bring it up as they are very much not maga supporters), despite me bringing up research showing the very clear negative side effects that Facebook had on people even 10+ years ago... Every last one of them ignored it and each one thought they were the exception.

  • New sodium ion battery stores twice the energy and desalinates seawater

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  • There are a bunch of lithium ion chemistries that have come to market more recently

    Like what? [Citation required]

    If you think rechargeable battery R&D from 10 years ago isn’t making it into mass produced products today, you’re just not paying attention.

    Please provide examples.

    I mean, as much as a person who doesn't work in research and development of energy storage, or work in industries directly related to it, I personally feel I've kept up. The day Donut Labs announced their battery I was watching review videos about it, and I want to believe, but until I see it for purchase, I'm not going to call it a win.

  • TIL You can leagally drop your baby off at the fire station in all 50 states

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  • I mean, there's like ~22 phases for ice alone.

  • Privacy features

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  • I mean, I love how it's programmed YOU should feel ashamed. Like, ghost being some peeping-tom voyeurs... I think is the real problem. Like, granny not adverting her eyes is really not a me problem. Catholics really got start teaching "When you dead, please stop doing creepy things"

  • This App Warns You if Someone Is Wearing Smart Glasses Nearby - 404media

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  • Na, I'm looking at the RAY-BAN META GLASSES and they look strait out of some 1970s/1980s "I work at NASA/IBM" movie. Still dorky.

  • New sodium ion battery stores twice the energy and desalinates seawater

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  • Weird, I didn't know Lithium-Ion batteries were still in the lab. I thought for sure we were using those already. I thought the batteries in the labs were various solid-state batteries like graphene or like this sodium-ion battery, where there's been a rise in patents around it but not a lot delivered

  • If this is true, then RIP

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  • I feel like this needs to be updated

    NVIDIA OpenAI Palantir Meta X Google Apple Anthropic

  • Oh thank gawd, cause I thought for a moment pedo fascist had taken over.

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  • They're not supposed to be able to. But in Star Trek when has that ever stop the hologram. Example Professor Moriarty taking over the Enterprise.

  • Jack Dorsey's New Company Falling Apart as It Forces Employees to Use AI

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  • I wanna make sure I got this right. They used $20,000 in fees in 2 weeks to make a compiler? Also, to what end? Like what's the expected ROI on that?

  • Mewgenics becomes the most-played roguelite ever on Steam

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  • Watched Cohh play it, it's a pass for me. The gameplay loop isn't my style. But it was fun watching someone go from 'this game is so good!' to just anger, lol. Some of the music is kind of catchy.

  • Elder Scrolls 6 Is Powered By New Version Of Creation Engine

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  • Listen I hate the unreal engine with a passion. But I also hate their engine with a passion. This amount of tech debt that thing has is incredible, and that's not a good thing.

    Unless they've started over from scratch but just kept the name I expected to be a piece of crap.

  • How did you learn to cook?

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  • My mom made a point to teach me and my sister when we were kids. We even had to plan dinners and cook it. I then made a point to take home ec in middle school. But my mom has a collection of cookbooks she is very proud of. She reads cookbooks like people read fiction books.

    Home cooking was a staple for my family. My grandparents raised my mom and her brothers on the farm. For a little while I even lived on that farm. But even though we mostly lived in town for most of my life, the fact that most meals were home cooked didn't change.

  • Ars Technica makes up quotes from Matplotlib maintainer("An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me"); pulls story

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  • I disagree, clearly. Owning would be "yes, I messed up, I used AI to write my process and didn't bother reviewing any of it, I took shortcuts". That and just that. Using "I was feeling sick" is deflecting blame instead of owning it.

  • Pedophiles Don't Deserve Plea Deals

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  • So story time.

    Back near the 2016 election, with the news covering Clinton Vs. Trump, a douchebag I worked with... a former(?) military guy... often talked about how he and a few military buddies of his had stockpiles of guns and ammo and he knew folks in the military yet. And would say something to the effect "if she wins, well sometimes things happen to planes" implying he or one of his military buddies was going to assassinate Clinton if she won. I told a military friend of mine who said, crap like that gets said all the time an nothing is ever done about it.

    Fun fact, said douchebag got arrested by the police for soliciting what he thought was a minor. Eat shit Phil.

  • Ars Technica makes up quotes from Matplotlib maintainer("An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me"); pulls story

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  • I don't care he's "sick". Too often, someone, instead of taking accountability, just throws anything to maybe shield themselves from actually being fully accountable. "I was sick", "Family problems", "A recent death", "The planets were misaligned that day", etc.

    I find it to still be cowardice, to not stand by and own what you said, even if it was wrong. He used AI and got caught. And going forward, I'll be treating Ars Technica as an unreliable AI-generated "news source".