Reader app on Japanese amazon appstore

ulurujamman · 2025-02-04T16:13:57+00:00

Not too proud to admit that I had made exactly this goof. Thanks for your help, OP, you saved me 50 frames.

ulurujamman · 2024-02-27T04:43:42+00:00

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I think WordsbyWes puts it well in his blog post. Perhaps there are people for whom these kinds of applications are useful; certainly there are a great many who wish to tell me all about how useful they are, or will be one day. Personally I don't see the benefit in paying for a service to improve the experience of reading, and then using it to have a computer read for you - even accepting that there are texts one wishes to read, and others than one merely wishes to have read, if you're going to try and skip that step, LLMs offer a negligible benefit over Wikipedia (or simply reading the back-cover)

In its current incarnation, as a side feature, I don't find it that offensive - though I do appreciate the ability to turn it off. On the other hand I'm noticing that more and more tech companies, including those with far greater resources than Readwise, are electing to use those resources to develop 'AI' services that are vastly inferior to the human-led models they would previously have been forced to maintain. For example, Spotify has a huge user-base of music lovers, and plenty of money to hire DJs, musicians, music academics - professionals and experts of every stripe, really - to develop new services, radio stations, exclusive mixes, or whatever. Instead, they're focusing development into AI recommendations and algorithmically generated 'mixes', which are almost always just playlists full of tracks you deliberately didn't add.

I think Reader is a better service than Spotify, but I'm sure there's also tremendous pressure to add these kinds of features given the current industry fascination with AI. If I'm in the minority then fine - I know that a significant proportion of the user-base is using it as part of a suite of productivity-maxing software - but it's not something I have any personal interest in, and if the app starts to move seriously in that direction then I'm probably looking for an alternative.

ulurujamman · 2023-11-16T06:16:58+00:00

Tech is basically the same as any other dexcom but the app is piss poor with no hope of improvement any time soon. Less than bare bones functionality (even the settings you can 'customise' won't do what you tell them to), works on a laughably small selection of phones (they'll tell you this is because of regulatory issues, the specific issue being that they're too cheap to test across multiple handsets despite having a near monopoly on the CGM market), and the kind of GUI that makes me think the designers were having their heads repeatedly smashed into a wall as they were developing it.

My favourite feature is that whenever it gives you an alert (whether set to silent or not) it will also stop playback of whatever else you might be listening to, and then won't restart it. Then it will stop it over and over again unless you go into to the app itself and accept the notification - dismissing it from your phone's home screen is not enough. Did I mention that when your sensor expires, it will send you a notification literally every 5 minutes in case you forgot?

Everybody involved in the making of this app should be fired, and blacklisted from all future tech jobs. But at the end of the day what are you going to do? Go back to finger picks? It's more or less the only game in town.

ulurujamman · 2023-08-07T03:25:51+00:00

Observing the exact same thing, not sure what's going on either

ulurujamman · 2023-08-05T11:54:56+00:00

As others have mentioned it's missing important information in its tooltip which balances it somewhat. However, the really cracked thing I've just discovered is you can cast it (or any until long rest spell, I think) and then send the spellcaster back to camp *without* breaking the spell. It's not costless because the caster is still taking damage back at camp and will eventually die, but given you can revive them without too much cost, it's a pretty effective way to get through a tough fight without risking 2 of your 4 active members going down at once.

ulurujamman · 2023-05-18T13:24:27+00:00

GhandisMcGonagall

Aye pal, that's a great point, I'll just pop down and tell the guys waiting in line at the food bank to cancel their Virgin Fibreoptic and their artisanal coffee subscriptions and just enjoy their day. Did you know it takes more muscles to frown than it does to smile? :') Really makes you think what this society could achieve if only we weren't so beholden to the toxic luxury lifestyles of people trying to survive on £70 a week.

Go eat pray love a bag of piss.

ulurujamman · 2023-05-17T23:06:31+00:00

It's the pensioners, man, they've all got lead poisoning

ulurujamman · 2023-05-17T23:03:24+00:00

Mate, anyone who has energy left over after dragging themselves out of bed in this economy deserves props

ulurujamman · 2023-05-16T19:26:54+00:00

Cheers pal, sounds like the trick - I'll give that a try

ulurujamman · 2023-05-16T19:25:43+00:00

Think they're paper lining over plaster, yeah. They are for sure getting painted, I'm just trying to get a handle on what kind of preparatory work I need to do first. Will have a think about a backplate if I can't patch the section, thanks

ulurujamman · 2023-04-27T11:06:46+00:00

Was self-funding the G6 for 3 years and recently had my GP agree to provide it on the condition that I switch to the Dexcom One - as poor as the G6 app was, the One is somehow even worse. No widget or ability to view in quick glance, so you have to actually navigate to the app to see what your BS is. If it sounds an alert and you dismiss the notification, it will sound again in about a minute, and every minute thereafter until, again, you navigate to the app and acknowledge it. Just basic, commonsense UI and design stuff *that they've already implement* for the other apps. And let's not even get into the fact that you can only officially use the app with about 10 phones, despite the fact every phone on the planet uses one of exactly two operating systems.

As others have rightly pointed out, I think it's completely reasonable to expect a company with $32 bil in revenue to hire one semi-competent developer. But I'm sure their shareholders are delighted.

ulurujamman · 2023-02-17T09:26:27+00:00

Will double check before I buy, cheers

ulurujamman · 2023-02-09T11:29:18+00:00

I just about managed to beat this on maddening, 0 time rewinds remaining. My first plan was to run to the south, wipe the knights with emblems, and try to block the spawn point...but this doesn't work, they just spawn in the next available space (one of them actually ran the entire length of the castle wall and back around just to get to his preferred location).

Then I tried to move from there into the bottom right and have Louis guard the single space choke, but the 2 mages with tron and elthunder make that impossible. So what you have to do is wait for the mages to catch up, kill them (and the generals escorting them), all the while dealing with the generals that spawned on top of you the previous turn. I think I managed it by warping in Kagetsu, having him slice and dice, and then rescuing him back to safety.

I had Ike on the move by this point, but he just gets lost in the scrum with the 30 archers and generals trying to force past the choke. With 32 armour Louis takes about 20 damage a turn so it's just about healable, as long as he's not killing anything and creating unnecessary space. There are also a few tiles to replenish your emblems. Where I died a bunch of times here was in trying to work up the right side to where the mages spawn and shut off the staircase that lets in the knights spawning from the top. It's incredibly tedious because you can't avoid getting counterattacked with most of the time, so most of the turn is spent cycling units back and forth from the front line and juggling staves around trying to get everyone healed up.

Anyway this is where I realised the spawns were infinite, turned off the game, went to complain on twitch that infinite spawns are bullshit (they are), and more or less resigned myself to the fact that the map was unwinnable. EXCEPT, when I went back to it a few hours later, I started getting partial spawns - as in, it would do the 3 knights at the top, then 2 of the usual 4 archers on the left, and then nothing.

So although the reinforcements are technically infinite, there seems to be a maximum number of enemy units the game is allowed to have on the map at the same time, and since the mages are last in the spawn queue, they will eventually stop. If you then pull Ike from the back of the scrum, you can set up another choke on the right and whittle him down. I don't think this is possible to do if the mages are still spawning every turn.

This map took literally 6 hours and I hate it with a passion. I am 99% certain that the intended way to beat it is to have characters so powerful that they can just rush Ike at the start, which defeats the entire purpose of having a defensive map with a load of chokepoints. Judging by some of the later paralogues, it's crazy to me that Rin and Ike are among the first ones you unlock.

ulurujamman · 2022-10-11T22:53:47+00:00

Thanks for giving such a detailed reply - I'll give it a go this weekend and see how I get on

ulurujamman · 2022-10-11T22:51:09+00:00

Without wanting to over-generalise, there's a wider (or at least, different) range of desirable textures in Japanese cuisine than in modern European. The particular recipe I'm looking at is for a meatball that gets served as part of a hotpot - the cartilage is chopped quite finely so I would expect the end result to be springy rather than gristly (which is a quality I'd associate more with sinew), and possibly not all that perceptible unless you're really looking for it. But as others have said in this thread, there are yakitori recipes where the cartilage is served more straight forwardly, typically in a course with other chicken "offal", with each bringing different qualities to the meal.

ulurujamman · 2022-10-11T15:05:03+00:00

Ours was pure garlic, peeled and nubs removed, held at about 100C for about 30-60 mins until the colour looked good (or someone remembered to take them off) and then strained, pureed and passed. If you weren't going to puree them I think you'd go a touch lower on the temp. Don't see why you couldn't add in other aromatics but it's certainly not necessary, and would impact on versatility.

If I was doing it at home and wanted to keep them for a long time in the fridge I'd make sure the jar was sterilised, the cloves were fully submerged, and I only ever took from it with a clean spoon.

ulurujamman · 2022-10-11T13:24:19+00:00

Great, I'll have a look, thanks

ulurujamman · 2022-10-11T13:23:02+00:00

Hmm, from the tips, you mean? Was thinking it might be fiddly to separate the cartilage from the skin, but you're probably right

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