Jrockwar

How's a motorbike that weighs more than 4 people, costs $12k, and can do 120 mph _micro_mobility? What's the criteria for being Micromobility, smaller than a Cybertruck? A Boeing 737?

Jokes aside, I've always considered micromobility the strictly-personal devices that don't need registration and can be picked up and brought into a train or a flat.

A non-conventional choice would be a pair of Beoplay (Bang&Olufsen) Portal, IF you can get a good deal. My partner has them and they're awesome. I think they're recently discontinued (nothing wrong with them really) which means that even though their retail price is much higher, they can often be found refurbished / for sale within that bracket. The only word of advice is that there is a separate PlayStation and an Xbox+PC version, so you'd need to make sure to get the right one. No idea what the difference is but internet comments made it sound like they wouldn't be properly compatible across systems.

This can be correct, if they're talking about training smaller models.

Imagine this case. You are an automotive manufacturer that uses ML to detect pedestrians, vehicles, etc with cameras. Like what Tesla does, for example. This needs to be done with a small, relatively low power footprint model that can run in a car, not a datacentre. To improve its performance you need to finetune it with labelled data of traffic situations with pedestrians, vehicles, etc. That labeling would be done manually...

... except when we get to a point where the latest Gemini/LLAMA/GPT/Whatever, which is so beefy that could never be run in that low power application... is also beefy enough to accurately classify and label the things that the smaller model needs to get trained.

It's like an older sibling teaching a small kid how to do sums, not an actual maths teacher but does the job and a lot cheaper or semi-free.

You say "as expected" but on the opposite end of the spectrum there's primark's clothing which is largely made in Ireland. From my understanding the reason they are dirt cheap is because they lean on automation, not because of sweatshops.

Not comparing the two brands - just showing the opposite example to say it's possible to have brands that are both European AND cheap. European doesn't necessarily mean crazy expensive.

7% of 350 is 24.5, so that doesn't track either...

I don't know how they can claim 350 km and say they've beaten a world record at 310 with a straight face. If their range claims weren't straight up false, surely they would just run a full tank and get 350, or even 360 in unreal conditions like this.

Even worse, they achieved 310km at 20km/h. Maybe to achieve 350 km you have to push for a fraction of the trip...?

I also think heating everything up is the smoothest solution. But to offer an alternative, I'd use dental floss to get in between the bowl and plate. If the bowl has slightly rounded edges (I believe it will), it won't be too hard to get floss in. With the floss you'll get inevitably some air in... Which will equalise the pressure and break the vacuum.

As an inferior alternative to floss, fishing line could work for this approach as well.

"There are some bad things on the internet"

"Just... Don't use the internet?"

I think the biggest problem with AI is that people expect it to fully do the work for you rather than be a tool. Imagine we live in a world without cameras and someone introduces that as something that will make paintings for you. Then users dislike it, expecting cameras to frame, aim, zoom and shoot for them.

I use AI for coding and it's amazing... at giving you an 80% correct boilerplate code that you then finish up editing yourself. There's real time savings there. I don't ask it to make the whole code because then I'm going to have to find the mistakes.

I use it also to summarise 3000-commit changelogs, which after some refinement it does way better than I could do in any reasonable timespan.

A colleague with dyslexia now writes without worrying that his grammar isn't making much sense, then an LLM fixes it for him.

The problem is when you use the result of the AI as a final product, because the reality of the technology is that then you get slop. There are so many people that just can't see past this and either use AI directly as an unattended slop generator, or don't use AI because they don't think it can be anything else. But I'm convinced you can use it as a tool with an input in less than 20% of a creative process (by this I don't mean "art" but any type of creation) and still save a real and significant chunk of time.

I bought a Ricoh GR III (not a GR III digital, an actual GR III) off Facebook marketplace for £350 a few years ago (at this point, the GR IIIx hadn't been released). It was cheaper than most because it was missing the front decorative ring. I added that back for £10-15, though.

In the year or two that I had it, I realised it wasn't right for me. It was a lovely camera, but I hated the focal length, the autofocus system always seemed to pick up some random object I didn't care about, and manual focus with the buttons was between impractical and downright unfeasible. I put it on eBay with an auction start price of £150 or so... And it fetched £450.

Another year or two later I was thinking of getting a GR IIIx as I'd probably enjoy the focal length more. I looked at eBay and damn, both the IIIx and normal III are selling for £800+, with only some poor-condition outliers below £700.

Apparently ricoh's manufacturing hasn't kept up with demand and their used prices are absolutely bonkers. I don't think this has happened to Sony (although I wish, as I need to sell my A7ii soon). I think its a bit of a case-by-case basis.

The ads for apps, Xbox games, trial versions of Office preinstalled, the minesweeper and solitaire collection that are preinstalled but actually ad supported or non-free, depending on the region spotify/TikTok/Facebook also come preinstalled, "Movies & TV", Bing/MS News...

I think all of those count as bloat. I haven't included Edge because I guess having a browser is a necessity, or copilot/cortana because you said "excluding AI features".

The Aarke one looks incredible, although it isn't cheap.

It's strictly for water though (no sweet stuff like cocktails or juice). I think Breville (called Sage in the UK because there's another brand also called Breville) sells another fancy one that does sweet stuff too.