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schipelblorp

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  • Germany plans sugar tax that includes sugar free drinks

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  • Apple Juice is $3.39 for 64 oz.. Coke is $3.69 for 2L--about 68oz; essentially the same price.

    I think what's happening here is that the natural health halo of fruit juice is absolutely short circuiting your mind.

    Ask yourself: if you added the same nutrients that are in juice to coca cola, would coca cola now be "healthy"?

  • Microsoft's latest AI rebrand beats its own history of terrible rebrands, renaming Microsoft 365 Roadmap to "AI at Work"

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  • What is the point of writing better software when the entire ecosystem is built around Microsoft? Though certainly Zoom ate Skype's lunch, and Slack is better than Teams... but maybe e-mail is too core a functionality, and, let's face it, there's old guys at the top that will fire their entire IT department before they get rid of their precious outlook. All my PST files for the last 20 years are on there! I have 200 inboxes and 400 rules!

    Interesting thoughts on Word. I just know for what most people use it for--documents--it's perfectly fine. It drives me up the wall that people pay for 365 subscriptions just so they can do that.

  • Cyborg cockroaches with tiny syringes designed to join search and rescue teams in major disasters

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  • Assassination potential is also very promising. A slow moving cockroach could easily get past a Holtzman shield.

  • Microsoft's latest AI rebrand beats its own history of terrible rebrands, renaming Microsoft 365 Roadmap to "AI at Work"

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  • Word, Excel, PowerPoint, or Outlook

    Of those four, only Outlook really could have used some changes. The other three were perfected 20 years ago. And how do you improve perfection? You can only make it worse.

  • Germany plans sugar tax that includes sugar free drinks

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  • So if we added some vitamins to Coca Cola, should we drop the tax?

  • New bootloader lets you take the "Meta" out of the original Meta Quest

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  • Nope. Headset has a motions sensors and gyros and orients to the environment using its built-in cameras. The wands have lights tracked by the headset cameras as well as their own gyros. Works pretty well. I think the wands can lose tracking from the camera if they're down by your waist, but the gyros take over at that point and you're probably just pointing them around down there.

    The original Rift and Vive both had external doodads you had to deal with, but the Quest is completely self contained.

  • Nvidia has been in talks to acquire Hugging Face for more than $13 billion

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  • Dear Mr. Huang,

    I have a proposal that will make your company a lot of money. In fact, I guarantee this deal will will increase NVIDIA's revenue by 19 billion USD.

    All you have to do is invest 20 billion in my company, Al Is Awesome, LLC, and I will purchase 19 billion worth of NVIDIA cards to get my project off the ground.

    Thank you for your consideration.

    Sincerely,

    SchipelborpCEO, Founder, Al Is Awesome, LLC

  • New bootloader lets you take the "Meta" out of the original Meta Quest

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  • Probably not immediately, but they're both on Snapdragon ARM chips, so very possibly in the future.

  • Meet Orexin, The Brain Chemical Behind Staying Motivated

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  • Like much neurochemistry, this information is practically useless--as pointed out in the article. Increasing Orexin does not increase motivation, though removing does decrease motivation.

    The hope is that by learning what chemicals are associated with what brain states, we can chemically influence the brain into these states. But that's not how any of it works. The brain responds to the totality of the situation, and adapts in response to the environment. The neurotoxins are the result, not the cause.

    Adding a chemical to the brain has the same logic as adding smoke to logs in the hope you get heat.

  • New bootloader lets you take the "Meta" out of the original Meta Quest

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  • Yes. I played Half Life Alex via my wifi, even.

  • Android users can't remove nude-scanning app as Google opens the feature to app developers

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  • Came for technology news, stayed for the Mesopotamian undergods.

  • Heroes of Might and Magic III hits 'Mostly Negative' Steam reviews because Ubisoft forgot to add the game

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  • It came on a CD, which is max about 700MB; that could easily unpack to a gigabyte.

  • Germany plans sugar tax that includes sugar free drinks

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  • Heroes of Might and Magic III hits 'Mostly Negative' Steam reviews because Ubisoft forgot to add the game

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  • U.S. Citizen Who Deleted Phone’s Data Says His Prosecution Puts Privacy at Risk

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  • Yeah, there's reading the bill of rights, understanding what it means and how it was intended, and it's another thing to understand how it's been thoroughly chipped away at, year by year, state by state, decision by decision. You would legitimately be shocked and horrified at how many exceptions there are, and this MAY fall within one of them the--the border exception.

  • U.S. Citizen Who Deleted Phone’s Data Says His Prosecution Puts Privacy at Risk

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  • Yeah, and in a very cold room and for a very long time. But legally they have to let you in at some point.

  • Debt Comments

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  • I don't have a lot of hope. Like I said, cutting spending and raising taxes is political suicide. Every politician runs on cutting the deficit, and it has only gone up.

    We're going to have to default on our debts and the world is going to have to cut us off, and then and only then are we're going to do something; and at that point, we're doubly screwed, because nobody is going to want to hold dollars, and there goes our exports and investments.

  • U.S. Citizen Who Deleted Phone’s Data Says His Prosecution Puts Privacy at Risk

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  • Yes! Or even better, make it 1234 or your birthdate and let them guess it on their own.

  • Ghosted by a guy I thought I had a strong connection with but was very physically affectionate on our first dates and suddenly changed his tone - should I follow up?

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  • A lot of women say they stop using apps because the vast majority of their male dates are just looking for sex.

    Those men have learned that just asking want sum fuk? will be unsuccessful, so they learn to play along with whatever minimal romance/interaction they think is expected of them, but they leave quickly if they don't get it or, worse: they pretend to be interested in a relationship until you have sex with them, then they leave.

    From what you're describing, your date is one of these men. Sorry.

    Where are you from, OP? You might get better advice from your locale.