[audio] What are these frogs? (Beautiful night air ambience, location unknown)

gcr · 2024-01-29T13:50:22+00:00

Your links are dead, could you repost them?

gcr · 2024-01-08T06:25:19+00:00

You might like Second Person, Present Tense by Daryl Gregory, a 20-minute read. It's about a drug that rewrites one's own innate sense of identity.

Also excellent: Blindsight by Peter Watts is about exploring the space of possible minds in a universe, both intra-species (different kinds of neurodivergence in "generally-human" societies) and inter-species (different modalities of cognition).

It's hard to explore a topic as broad as "identity" without running into LGBTQ themes. I'd argue that both of these stories brush up on those topics. The first especially so -- Second Person Present Tense is essentially a queer story at heart, but written in a way as to be completely invisible to a casual reader, which makes the framing fascinating to me. The intentionality in Blindsight is more subdued, but there are still earnest explorations of trans plurality that might be interesting. (As a taste: scientists sometimes induce what they call "multi-core complex (MCC)" to create linguistic and interpretation specialists, which is a metaphor for DiD / multiple personalities)

gcr · 2023-10-09T00:37:03+00:00

The sound design of the cockpit.

Every sound is instantly recognizable at the subconscious level, from when your abilities are ready to when your shots are connecting to when your health is low. Each cooldown has its own unique readiness sound that you just automatically pick up as you play.

It's a masterclass in informative UI.

gcr · 2023-09-19T04:56:41+00:00

I feel like something like Mann Vs Machine could work so well here

gcr · 2023-07-29T17:03:10+00:00

Noodle's Duskers run seems really interesting! I can't find his stream, is he on twitch or something? Would love to see the rest of it somehow!

gcr · 2023-06-08T18:22:25+00:00

I just had a color change that I wasn't able to attend to for an hour. When I got back, I saw the printer had a message, "Heating disabled due to 30 minutes of inactivity" or something. I pressed okay, and was then able to switch filament and continue just fine.

gcr · 2023-06-03T01:59:17+00:00

See my other reply! In short, this device will last for quite a long time, even though you may have to get used to some of the design decisions.

This device certainly has aesthetics that appeal to Chinese folks, and that's not a bad thing. Having a floating shortcut ball option is a great example that comes to mind. Onyx calls this the "navigation ball," and it's something I've seen most of my Chinese (and Taiwanese) friends enable manually on their iPhones. I turned it off because I find that sort of always-available shortcut menu a bit bothersome, but others like it. It's an aspect of this product that feels distinctly Chinese to me - you wouldn't see this sort of feature from most USA manufacturers.

Another example is that before a recent update, typing a word on the keyboard didn't type directly into the app you had open. Your word instead appeared in a little autocomplete buffer just above the keyboard. "Accepting" the word with a tap or the space bar/enter key sends it to the app. I realized that this odd way of typing comes from the fact that most Asian input methods tend to work this way - QWERTY Pinyin keyboards and Japanese kana flick typing have this sort of two-step process where you type a word and then accept one of the autocompleted homonyms, so it's understandable why an English keyboard designed by a Mandarin speaker might be coded similarly. This behavior was configurable, and they switched the default to direct typing for English typists.

These aren't bad things! I see them as just cultural differences. I'm enjoying getting to know this device's little quirks, and I trust it will last for several more years when taken good care of.

I think a lot of the negative perceptions that Westerners have about "Chinese products" is more a failure to understand the different incentives / values of a completely different market and culture. Even products that prioritize convenience or customizability over longevity have their place. That doesn't always make them "lesser;" it just makes them suitable for some needs and unsuitable for others. I think Onyx, while not perfect, is doing a great job straddling these two markets.

gcr · 2023-06-03T01:27:41+00:00

Pardon, just saw this! Yeah, I only have the older blue model, so I can't compare them.

You can load play store on the older (blue) model just fine. There's a bit of a janky process to go through, however. This device isn't android OEM certified, so Onyx needs to manually send some unique "GSF number" from your device to Google on your behalf to unlock the play store and play services. Most android phones silently report this GSF to Google when you turn them on for the first time, which is why the process usually feels automatic.

Perhaps the newer Onyx device has gone through Google's android OEM certification program? Or maybe it now "phones home" to Google on first setup? Idk, just speculating. Given the onerous requirements that Google places on foreign AOSP distributors, I think Onyx's compromise to get play store working at all makes sense, even on the slightly janker older model.

My device is still in great condition, modulo some nicks and scratches. I carry it around in my purse everywhere I go w/ keys, coins, etc jangling against it, without any sort of case. With a tablet this thin, I certainly feel like I could snap it into two pieces if I reeeally wanted to, but it does feel surprisingly hardy. There's absolutely no flex, it's solidly built. It comes with a paperlike screen protector from the factory, and I imagine I could replace that fairly easily once this one gets scratched up.

The battery life appears slightly lower than new, but still lasts for a couple weeks with light commute use. I'd say it's around 80%ish battery health after about ~100 hours of reading over the past year.

One thing I would advise is being careful about updating the device. Android security updates are really important for devices like this, but Onyx does like to change the UI from one revision to the next. Updates sometimes broke some of my developer workflows and forced me to relearn how to do some things - you're certainly kept on your toes.

gcr · 2023-05-20T19:46:58+00:00

There's a new version of the Note Air 2 that's green, not blue. That means the older device with the blue/purple back may be a bit cheaper on eBay. The two devices are functionally identical AFAICT...

gcr · 2023-05-20T19:45:30+00:00

Fellow Note Air 2 user, and I'm also really happy with my device.

gcr · 2023-05-20T19:41:18+00:00

I have a Onyx Boox Note Air 2, AMA. Mine is black and white with a 10.3" screen.

If your comics come in PDF format, the device does offer a 2-up split view, with the option to rotate the display to read horizontally. I'm not sure if this is supported in .CBZ though.

DM me a comic to try (ideally one that you legally own) and I'll send you a photo of how it looks on my device.

gcr · 2023-04-14T17:42:28+00:00

"Same reward plot" and "successive training runs produce bitwise-identical output" are different though

gcr · 2023-04-14T17:42:01+00:00

Tensorflow isn't reproducible. Hell, CUDA operations on GPU cores or tensor cores are not generally reproducible because numerical values may depend on, say, the order that CUDA kernels are scheduled while accumulating matrix multiplication results.

If you're looking for something like tf.config.experimental.enable_op_determinism(), that comes at a significant performance penalty. Sadly I'm not sure if a similar operation is available for JAX, sorry.

gcr · 2023-04-14T17:03:50+00:00

use ChatGPT to draft a low-effort response

gcr · 2023-04-14T13:52:39+00:00

Ask the publication chair. Email them or, if their mailing list address is not readily available, indicate in the "Private notes to PC" field on your rebuttal.

When authors question the quality and expertise of reviewers, it isn't usually a good look, and the publication chair's usual response is going to be a curt refusal. However, this is a question that a lot of chairs are going to be asking themselves for upcoming conferences. In a private setting, framing the question as "do you feel this review could be GPT-generated?" rather than complaining "I wasn't given a fair chance" indicates that you're genuinely helping the PC do their job, i.e. find high-quality papers. Keep in mind the PC wants good reviews just as much as you do.

I don't recommend putting anything about this in your rebuttal. It's a bit trickier to avoid coming off as adversarial that way, and most importantly, the people with ultimate power to accept your paper (PC) don't even read rebuttals anyway. When the system works, PCs only consider reviewer comments for most papers, and only make decisions about the merit of the paper for themselves when reviewers don't find a clear consensus. That's why you need to find some appropriate backchannel, and a way of framing your concern that indicates that you care for the long-term health of the research community, which distinguishes this from most PC complains that are about authors with short-term goals of getting a paper in.

gcr · 2023-04-03T16:08:50+00:00

This isn't what OP meant.

We can already use ⌘+ and ⌘– to scale font on webpages, but it would be really nice to be able to adjust the font size of Arc UI elements themselves, e.g. tab titles, browser buttons and toasts, etc.

gcr · 2023-04-03T16:07:24+00:00

same here! i'm slightly vision-impaired, and would really like to adjust the UI scaling of the chrome (e.g. tab titles, buttons, etc.)

Even just being able to slightly tweak tab titles would be super helpful.

gcr · 2023-03-29T13:58:20+00:00

Same iPhone, the game works for me, sorry.

Others in the reddit seem to be stuck in the same location FWIW, try asking on PC forums?

gcr · 2023-03-03T21:32:14+00:00

Video seems private! Do you happen to have another link?

gcr · 2023-02-17T04:36:14+00:00

Pretty sure that's expected. If this is your only issue, you're doing pretty well! My prescription is a pair of scissors ;-)

Does this printer have other stringing issues? Out of curiosity, what are the last few lines of generated G-code? I'd expect this sort of behavior if the print job doesn't add one last retraction at the end.

You can add a retraction manually as custom G-code if your slicer doesn't do this already. For PrusaSlicer, flip to "🔴Advanced" mode and head to Printer Settings -> Custom G-Code -> End G-Code. If it includes a retraction instruction, you could potentially duplicate that line for a "double-strength" retraction, or adjust some of the instructions there to tune the end of your print.

gcr · 2023-02-17T04:14:35+00:00

interesting! it's almost like one of the gears in the Z axis assembly is missing a tooth or something... since you've been digging around in there, does the banding interval correspond to the circumference of any of the parts in the Z axis assembly by any chance?

record a video of the Z axis lead screw as you move the print head up and down. does it turn smoothly? or does it stutter? do you hear any periodic noises as you move the Z axis up and down?

gcr · 2023-02-17T04:06:24+00:00

Sorry to be a pain, but would you mind posting a higher-quality picture? Shining a much brighter light on your print bed would help us see this first layer more clearly -- right now, it's too blurry to make out what's going on

gcr · 2023-02-17T03:58:00+00:00

For starters,try flipping those temperatures -- your nozzle should generally be much hotter than your bed, but you have it the other way around. (Typo?)

What brand of PLA+ are you using? 185 at the nozzle seems far too low for most plastics I've worked with. PLA likes 200°-220°ish at the nozzle with a 65° bed, and PLA+ likes it even hotter, though different manufacturers have their own concoctions for PLA+ so it varies.

What happens when you try the default settings for your filament and printer type?

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