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> Not just switching to "decaf" (which isn't)

Going to argue here, this is wildly bad advice. Decaf practically has no caffeine, it has 2-7 mg from what I can tell which is less then chocolate. 2-7mg is like impossible to notice and might aswell be water with how little there is.


My advice was along the lines of saying, in the 1950s, "give up all cigarettes, not just 'low tar'". Potential straw man here, but surely you wouldn't call that "wildly bad advice".

My comment was predicated on the belief that we wildly underestimate the negative effects of caffeine, as well as its activities at lower doses.


Agree, althouh quiting it altogether might simply help with establishing the new habit.

But replacing it with decaf is also easier to get into.

Yeah, some people need to go cold turkey. Or... Help them out by replacing their coffee with decaf without them knowing. ;D

All time classic.

I feel like this, I honestly wish newspapers weren't bunk and there was a good "week in review" way to get the news. I find myself Doom scrolling to much.

Came here to say this, I literally can't believe this works.

It's like a couple of years ago where someone showed a proof of concept of turning a HDD into a microphone


It turns out those shopping car wheel locks use the same kind of low-frequency RF that can leak from your phone speaker. Someone made an app that allows you to lock or unlock certain shopping carts.

… and I thought the Scanjet 5p “Ode to Joy” easter egg was incredible.

Linking to the Reddit because Microsoft makes it impossible to find this.

Damn, this person looks like a good manager.

These are all things I have seen in my good managers over the years when I had them.


I've had one good manager and I concur. As valuable as gold.

Yes, he has a lot of accumulated experience!

If only all experienced managers could have developed the same amount of understanding.

I don't know why, but I thought this was going to sandbox style tab/split support for the all the baselines macos apps.

This is very cool, but somehow got myself disappointed that something I didn't know I wanted doesn't exist.


You're not the only one. I first assumed it was a library when I was scanning the headlines, but then when I started opening up tabs moments later I thought it added tabs and splits to existing apps. I remember something that brought tabs system-wide to Windows so it's not even too crazy of an idea.

Yes, I assumed it was a macos equivalent to suckless-tabbed. https://tools.suckless.org/tabbed/

> I don’t know about you, but I think that’s baloney. Proton Support had five full business days to come up with a better excuse. Please tell me, how can I have been any more explicit about opting out of Lumo emails, only to receive “Try Lumo” “From Lumo”, and be told that is not actually a Lumo email?

As someone who is in support in tech (not proton) I can tell you exactly what happened.

Day 1 they already knew which email it was, they probably had other tickets about this, they probably had an open discussion about this with marketing/product team.

Day 2-4 was the support agent arguing with marketing/product about how it's absolute bullshit to send out a AI newsletter when the user has it unticked and what they are going to do so it doesn't happen in the future.

Day 5 is marketing/product telling them that this is Working as designed and theu aren't going to stop this in the future. This is the day the support person works on this email with their team and potentially their manager.

It goes through a couple of "rewrites" for liability/protecting ass. The end result is the email you got, they know you are going to give a bad CSAT/NPS survey and it's going to kill their metrics.

They want nothing more to write and email that says, "Sorry marketing and product are fucking idiots and can't read. I fought for this to be disabled, but told me it's not going to happen, sorry" but culture and then not wanting to lose their jobs is why they didn't send this.

I really hope you didn't give them a bad survey.


I hope they sued

So good news, there is a fair amount of monitors coming soon which are super high resolution that offer a "dual mode" which is lower resolution that has higher refresh rate. They are pretty cool.

https://youtu.be/eyAVWH61R8E?t=3m53s

I would say Superman's quality didn't suffer for it.

I would say cost is probably the most expensive part it's also just like "why bother", it's not CG, it's not "2d filming" so it's just niche, like the scenarios you would actually need this are very low.


That's interesting. 192 cameras is certainly expensive. Though they are doing 4DGS, with movement, so they have to capture every frame from different angles at the same time. I assume 3DGS for static environments (locations) would be a lot easier in terms of hardware. E.g. a single drone could collect photos for an hour and then they could create arbitrary simulated camera movements that couldn't be filmed conventionally. But again, the quality would have to be high in most cases. The nature of the Superman scene (some sort of hologram) is more forgiving, as it is inherently fake-looking, which helps excuse artifacts slipping through.

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