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TheRealKuni

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  • A Prominent OpenAI Investor Appears to Be Suffering a ChatGPT-Related Mental Health Crisis, His Peers Say

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  • Update: The psychiatrist who looked at her said she had too much weed -_- . I'm really disappointed in the doctor but she had finally slept and sounded more coherent then

    There might be something to that. Psychosis enhanced by weed is not unheard of. As I’ve read, weed has been shown in studies to bring out schizophrenic symptoms in people predisposed to it. Not that it causes it, just brings it out in some people.

    I say this as someone who loves weed and consumes it frequently. Just like any psychoactive chemical, it’s going to have different effects on different people. We all know alcohol causes psychosis all the fucking time but we just roll with it.

  • Disposable E-Cigarettes More Toxic Than Traditional Cigarettes: High Levels of Lead, Other Hazardous Metals Found in E-Cigarettes Popular with Teens

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  • Man, I miss that first fire of a fresh coil before you’ve wicked it, letting it get red-hot and then pressing it together to solidify the shape. Watching for shorts. On complicated windings it’s always so pretty.

    Glad I don’t still consume nicotine, but there were parts of the process I loved.

  • Disposable E-Cigarettes More Toxic Than Traditional Cigarettes: High Levels of Lead, Other Hazardous Metals Found in E-Cigarettes Popular with Teens

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  • If you’re blowing clouds like that you’re not using the disposable vapes the article talks about. You’re using sub-ohm coils and a larger rig capable of heating coils designed for the task of making big clouds. You’re also using a liquid with a relatively low concentration of freebase nicotine.

    Disposables vapes use higher concentrations of nicotine in a salt form rather than freebase, and much smaller quantities of liquid per puff, to deliver a hit that feels more like a cigarette.

    Back when I vaped I made my own coils, though eventually I moved on to temperature-controlled ones, which require a purity of metal not found in the cheap-ass nic-salt disposables.

    The toxicity is from the coils in the disposables, not from the eliquid and not from rigs.

  • Apple sues YouTuber who leaked iOS 26’s new “Liquid Glass” software redesign

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  • The lack of color isn’t the default, it’s an option (an evolution of one that already have). By default everything is still colorful.

  • Apple sues YouTuber who leaked iOS 26’s new “Liquid Glass” software redesign

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  • That example photo is with the icons set to white (or similar). By default the icons are still colorful. They showed it off during WWDC and it looks mostly good.

  • Apple sues YouTuber who leaked iOS 26’s new “Liquid Glass” software redesign

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  • Maybe. I suspect it will be much better than last time.

    Processing power is much better now than in 2006. Back then it was about having some blurry transparency and lots of light beams and lens flares and shit, because it was easy to layer that over stuff. This is going to be more about refraction at the edges and clarity in the centers, with frosted looks as background when needed.

    I am hopeful, it looked mostly good in the WWDC video, with only a few examples of poor legibility that hopefully will be ironed out.

    I’m personally ready to move on from the flat look as long as it remains cleaner than Frutiger Aero. I miss having depth in my UI.

  • You'd need to calculate the compound interest

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  • Great, now I’ve got that dude from the Matrix in my head talking about how his dick is bigger than mine.

  • You'd need to calculate the compound interest

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  • We’ll be using the Eurodollar by 2077. I don’t know what the exchange rate is from dollars to eddies.

  • Gallium

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  • Oh man, so much worse. What an idiot, if they had just smiled and waved it never would’ve gone viral.

    Edit: and also if they had never decided to have an affair they wouldn’t be in the situation in the first place.

  • Want to Teach in Oklahoma? You May Have to Prove You're Not 'Woke'

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  • For anyone who sees this, the podcast (at least that’s how I consumed it) that andros_rex linked here, Sold a Story from American Public Media, is fascinating, and terribly sad, and I very much recommend it. My wife and I binged the entire thing on a trip. I’ve since recommended it to every teacher I know, and many other people.

  • Tesla’s Cybertruck Is a Bust

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  • Throttle-by-wire has been common for ages. Steering-by-wire is less common. Brake-by-wire is also less common, though it’s becoming very common with regenerative braking.

  • Peak UI Design

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  • You linking that also-fantastic post is one of the funniest things I’ve seen all day. Well done! I laughed my ass off.

  • Wolves an' Leopards Are Trying To Kill The Sheep an' The Shepherd

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  • Back in 2016 I got my sister to take one of those tests where you answer a bunch of questions and it shows how well various politicians agree with you.

    She matched with Hillary Clinton like, 83%. Nearest Republican was 56% or something.

    She outright said, “Well, she’s pro-abortion so I can’t vote for her.”

  • Dik Piks

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  • I feel like it’s easier to tell English speakers to make an “eee” sound with their lips and then pronounce the vowel in question (ä, ö, ü) with the rest of their mouth (at least that’s how we do it when we sing in German, I know choral German doesn’t always line up with proper German pronunciation).

  • They don't know

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  • I can understand disliking The Office much more readily than I can disliking Scrubs.

  • They don't know

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  • Strongly disagree. Scrubs is one of my two favorite shows. It’s a brilliant example of dramedy. Showrunner Bill Lawrence is a master of the genre.

    But obviously this is a matter of opinion.

  • They don't know

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  • Now the question is when you’re going to introduce them to 30 Rock. Are they ready for that level of jokes-per-minute? What about Community?

  • They don't know

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  • Only for the first four seasons. Rights agreements were different then.

    You’ll also find most streaming sites turn the 4:3 into 16:9 by chopping off the top and bottom of the frame.

    This is why I have the show on DVD.

  • You get new speakers or you start your music library from scratch. Which is the first song/album you play?

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  • Bear with me on this one.

    I like to use the maestoso from Saint-Saëns’s Symphony No. 3 in C Minor, often called the Organ Symphony, for testing speakers. Turn it way up and blast that organ sound. Also reminds me of the movie Babe since they used the theme from this movement for that movie. 😁

    (Links below are YouTube Music, but I’m confident you can find the same recordings on Spotify.)

    Here’s a good recording, listen to at least the first 1:45, though the full movement isn’t very long (a bit over seven minutes). Again, volume is your friend for this movement. It’s MAJESTIC, and on a good set of speakers it’s incredible.

    Another good orchestral work for this type of showing off is Holst’s Jupiter, or the fourth movement of Dvořák’s New World Symphony

    (There are many more but these are some relatively well-known-without-people-knowing-they-know-them ones.)