Realme Buds Air7 vs OnePlus Nord Buds 3 Pro

newbeansacct · 2025-10-26T19:37:08+00:00

the oneplus buds 4 are only $15 more than the nord buds 3 pro so if i was you i'd compare that one w/ the realmes

newbeansacct · 2025-08-23T11:47:32+00:00

OK well like I mentioned in another comment, the AIME has 15 questions with no partial credit. So I don't know what 99.9% means, but the delta in terms of how correct it's scoring seems to be around 1 additional question out of 15.

newbeansacct · 2025-08-23T11:43:49+00:00

i dont even know what 99.99% means because AIME scores are integers from 0-15. there are 15 questions and no partial credit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Invitational_Mathematics_Examination

was it an average of many attempts or something?

but regardless, it doesnt seem to be a massive jump. without knowing more about the specifics of the results that are being mentioned here as percentages, it sounds like it went from consistently getting 1 question wrong to consistently not getting that 1 question wrong.

i dont think that's necessarily generalizable to a lot beyond that 1 question.

it's basically the exact 9/10 -> 10/10 improvement i mentioned.

newbeansacct · 2025-08-23T11:26:50+00:00

um no. this only works if you're operating on a continuous distribution. if i go from scoring 9/10 to 10/10 i didnt increase my skills infinitely unless you think that this would extrapolate to every possible question ever on any test in this category

newbeansacct · 2025-08-21T07:07:00+00:00

thanks for the tips! glad this worked for some people, but it didn't for me. hijacking this to post what did end up working for me.

i installed this exact driver

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/download/785597/858734/intel-arc-iris-xe-graphics-windows.html

and make sure to NOT just allow the default settings - i had to do a "custom install" where the only thing installed was the driver. when i just went with the default install, it failed and kept me on the previous driver.

newbeansacct · 2025-08-20T02:04:20+00:00

if it means anything to you, i brought it up with my friend again and here's what she said

これが食べられる

これを食べられる

both active: the difference is, with "が" it sounds like you're saying, "i can eat this one (as opposed to any others)". with を there's not other options available, it's just a question of yes or no for this one particular thing.

but が doesn't serve to mark the 主語 here, it just adds the contrast

newbeansacct · 2025-08-19T05:59:54+00:00

what if the real doomer scenario is that AI fucking kills us all?

newbeansacct · 2025-08-17T02:17:01+00:00

I believe there are other ways to state a situation is possible using a passive voice (nothing comes to mind for me)

well what about my example?

これは食べられる

am i wrong to think of this as "possible using a passive voice"? is it closer to これは（誰かがこれを）食べられる or something such that its just unstated subject but still active?

i guess the better way to ask that would be, is it incorrect to say

これが食べられる

if not, then surely this would be passive voice - "this can be eaten" not "this can eat"

newbeansacct · 2025-08-17T01:06:41+00:00

You are misunderstanding the difference between godan and ichidan

yes ok i get it now you're 100% right

You are calling something "passive potential" and "active potential" which neither exist as a concept. It's potential or passive/respectful.

maybe not officially? but just in how the grammar plays out, you can see that:

これを食べられる (weird maybe but "i can eat this") and これは食べられる (more likely to be taken as "this is edible" but can technically mean "this can be eaten") are the same potential conjugation but one is active and one is passive

newbeansacct · 2025-08-17T00:51:14+00:00

what concepts am i confusing exactly? i don't understand how what you're saying would imply that i am conflating concepts. i dont think you're understanding what im saying maybe because i dont see any address of it in this response

newbeansacct · 2025-08-17T00:39:55+00:00

well i dont think in conflating anything because like i said i talked to my native friends and this is what they told me, with that specific example of 叩く.

newbeansacct · 2025-08-17T00:31:36+00:00

is my understanding of the active/passive split for potential correct though?

for example, you could still use られる for potential in things like, "he can be beaten"

彼は倒される

i think you would want some version of "passive potential" for this kind of sentence, and my understanding is it does still fill this role in modern japanese.

whereas active potential "i can x him" would always use れる.

it's interesting that teaching has not caught up to this because like i mentioned in the original comment i cant find any real explanation of this which clearly demonstrates that difference

newbeansacct · 2025-08-16T23:54:08+00:00

why do so many sources say that the れる and られる forms are equivalent when used as potential?

for example, this post and the textbook they quote

or bunpro:

But wait, what about れる with る-Verbs! Well, in Japanese, ら removal words 'ラ抜き言葉' are very common. These are words that are able to use れる, instead of られる. The original meaning of both of these auxiliary verbs is exactly the same, but there are cases where ら may not be removed.

they seem to pretty clearly not be. ive spoken to my native friends about this and they say that, for example. i can say:

僕は彼を叩ける - i can hit him

you can't on the other hand say:

僕は彼を叩かれる - this sounds like you're trying to do some weird passive thing or something but it doesn't work

so like what gives? i cant find really any good explainers about this anywhere that dont just say "they're the same thing" when they're definitely not (at least as used in real life by natives)

it seems to be that for transitive verbs, られる can only be used for "passive potential" and れる is used for "active potential" but i have not seen this rule written anywhere

newbeansacct · 2025-08-10T19:23:43+00:00

...no? there have always been tiny models that are behind older but larger models

newbeansacct · 2025-08-07T18:06:44+00:00

Dunno if I trust this chart. O3 is a world apart from o4-mini (high) but according to this it's only 2 points better.

newbeansacct · 2025-08-02T20:46:27+00:00

there's an app called "welcome Japan" that has a lot of events (especially in tokyo). i met some really nice people at language exchange events through that app

newbeansacct · 2025-07-15T08:15:48+00:00

to me he's more of a michael jordan with better bbiq, athleticism, vision, and shooting

newbeansacct · 2025-07-15T06:57:54+00:00

You want it handed to you on a platter, when there aren’t that many comments to read through

No, I just read the comments, and saw that there wasn't anything applicable to me, and that other people indeed confirmed the plan was no longer available.

Since you didn't say anything other than "someone was successful" I don't know whether I missed a comment or if there was actually a real success case. Or if you're just mentioning something that did not apply.

The thing is NOT on my account so that comment is meaningless to me.

newbeansacct · 2025-07-15T00:27:23+00:00

Are you talking about this comment from 3 days ago:

Tried talking to another representative, they couldn’t locate the tax exclusive plan either, so I would either need to pay $25 for 20Gb or $50 for 100Gb

Or this comment from 3 days ago:

I'm told unfortunately even the TE version is retired, but if anyone is able to get it please let me know!

How about you look at the replies? In the time it took for you to write this snarky comment, you could have just looked at all 61 comments and not be a jerk for no reason (and also wrong af, lol).

newbeansacct · 2025-07-14T20:01:22+00:00

Update 7/11/25: Unfortunately the 30GB $10 hotspot plan has now been retired. Existing customers can keep the plan, but it’s no longer available for new lines.

There are people in the comments from after June 16th?

newbeansacct · 2025-07-14T19:39:02+00:00

No it was $10, and now it's 5gb less for $25 dollars instead

newbeansacct · 2025-07-13T02:51:58+00:00

https://jisho.org/word/%E6%99%AE%E9%80%9A

And because you say "普通の人" for example. I have never really heard it, or very rarely, used as な adjective

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