[-] qupada@kbin.social 24 points 3 months ago

I genuinely hope you enjoy all the negative reviews you're about to receive, Sony.

[-] qupada@kbin.social 25 points 3 months ago

I've been seeing a lot about Sodium-ion just in the past week.

While they seem to have a huge advantage in being able to charge and discharge at some fairly eye-watering rates, the miserable energy density would seem to limit them to stationary applications, at least for now.

Perfect for backup power, load shifting, and other power-grid-tied applications though.

[-] qupada@kbin.social 21 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I was about to say. A third of a cup is more than the ENTIRE VOLUME OF DRESSING I'd consider putting in a salad... that would serve four people.

Maybe a teaspoon of sugar to balance the acidic flavours in the dressing. Maybe.

Looking at that recipe, it reads like "quick pickles" which are normally made with a hot mixture of white vinegar and sugar (and admittedly quite a lot of sugar), but in those the critical step is you drain the pickled vegetables before serving, so the actual amount of sugar retained by the food is still relatively low. No mention of draining before serving here though, so perhaps it is just artificially-sweetened cucumber and vinegar soup? Blergh.

[-] qupada@kbin.social 17 points 7 months ago

The estimated training time for GPT-4 is 90 days though.

Assuming you could scale that linearly with the amount of hardware, you'd get it down to about 3.5 days. From four times a year to twice a week.

If you're scrambling to get ahead of the competition, being able to iterate that quickly could very much be worth the money.

[-] qupada@kbin.social 18 points 8 months ago

Or failing that, take your pick of

  • It's like Uber but for...
  • It's crypto/blockchain, but applied to...
[-] qupada@kbin.social 18 points 8 months ago

I recently bought a Boox Palma, which is a phone-size Android device with a real E-Ink display.

It's not a phone (WiFi/Bluetooth only, no mobile radio), and with 4-bit greyscale it's definitely an adjustment to use with a lot of apps (it has per-app DPI & contrast controls to help), but they've done a lot of work on the refresh rate to make it feel responsive.

It even has midrange-phone specs (SD 6xx series CPU, 6GB RAM, 4Ah battery), with full Google Play, so it's a quite usable Android device overall. Like most modern E-Ink devices, has a CCT warm-to-cool frontlight, so great for night-time use.

Now would I want to use it as my only, everyday device (if it was a phone too)? Probably not. Could I? Almost certainly.

Colour E-Ink is still quite limited (in contrast, and resolution), but I expect the patents on that are quite a bit newer and we won't be seeing so much movement in that area so soon.

[-] qupada@kbin.social 17 points 8 months ago

I watched MKBHD's review earlier today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxOh12Uhg08

Major takeaway was the visibility - both forward and rear - is absolutely atrocious. The A pillars are comically enormous and horribly placed which looks like it leads to quite the tunnel vision in the front, and with the tonneau cover closed the rear view mirror is completely blocked and you're left to rely on a video feed on the centre console display.

Marques (who I gather is quite tall) described an inability to see the front corner due to the extreme slope of the front end, so that'll be "fun" for shorter people too.

People are going to get killed by this monstrosity.

[-] qupada@kbin.social 24 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

To make it worse, we have our own in New Zealand, which is the (worldwide) original of that format. The Aussie series is a spin-off.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_Patrol_(New_Zealand_TV_series)

[-] qupada@kbin.social 25 points 9 months ago

T'ain't enough. Gotta block everything they do, everywhere on the internet.

As someone so eloquently put it: you might not have a facebook profile, but facebook has a you profile.

If you've ever seen a "share on facebook" button on another website, they've been watching you.

[-] qupada@kbin.social 22 points 9 months ago

Something not so far mentioned is Tree Style Tab.

If you habitually have a lot of tabs open, you'll probably know how annoying it is finding things when each page title has been condensed down to 4-5 characters. On widescreen displays (especially 16:9), vertical pixels are also a lot more precious, while horizontal ones are plentiful.

For me (3840×2160 display, 200% scale), its vertical tab sidebar fits about 30 tabs before needing a scrollbar, and you get a full width title for each and every one.

It can be a bit of an adjustment at first, but I've been using this since the pre-WebExtensions days (since around Firefox 4.0), it's definitely one of my must-haves.

[-] qupada@kbin.social 19 points 11 months ago

Worse still, a lot of "modern" designs don't even both including that trivial amount of content in the page, so if you've got a bad connection you get a page with some of the style and layout loaded, but nothing actually in it.

I'm not really sure how we arrived at this point, it seems like use of lazy-loading universally makes things worse, but it's becoming more and more common.

I've always vaguely assumed it's just a symptom of people having never tested in anything but their "perfect" local development environment; no low-throughput or high-latency connections, no packet loss, no nothing. When you're out here in the real world, on a marginal 4G connection - or frankly even just connecting to a server in another country - things get pretty grim.

Somewhere along the way, it feels like someone just decided that pages often not loading at all was more acceptable than looking at a loading progress bar for even a second or two longer (but being largely guaranteed to have the whole page once you get there).

[-] qupada@kbin.social 20 points 11 months ago

Ok, but why is the floor wet? Did they just finish mopping up the blood from its last victim?

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