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Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
True, that would be preferable, but alas Samsung is bent on making their products as big of a pain in the arse as possible.

At least with my Samsung soundbar, the remote can change the volume, the subwoofer volume and change between modes (standard, surround, game). But if I want to enable night mode, I have to use the SmartThings app. There's no way to enable it using the remote. What's worse, the app often hangs when connecting to the soundbar, requiring me to force stop and restart it. So sometimes toggling a feature that should be a single button on the remote takes me over a minute.

Samsung is right next to HP on my list of brands I will never ever buy in my entire life.

Comment · 1 year ago
If 1.2 PB is a problem, then why don't they just specify a bandwidth limit of say 1 PB? They specifically say "unlimited bandwidth", so yes, what they are doing _is_ scummy because there is a very obvious incongruity between what they claim and what they actually offer.
Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 2 years ago
I'm continually amazed by the (lack of) quality of their laptops and the scenario described really reinforced my opinion of HP.

At work, I've used a ProBook, a ZBook, and two EliteBooks, all of which had major issues. Sleep mode never worked on any of them (immediately turning back on again with powercfg /lastwake showing no reason), and my current EliteBook frequently shuts off without warning and then won't turn on for five minutes. The ProBook and one EliteBook failed randomly and needed to be replaced.

The ZBook's workstation CPU overheated even at light usage, making it unbearably slow. Despite IT saying nothing could (and should) be done, I disassembled it and found it was missing thermal paste, or what little there was had hardened into a brittle, useless mess. Reapplying thermal paste about tripled the Cinebench score.

Given all this ridiculousness, I can't imagine how much worse their consumer laptops must be. It's baffling how anyone but the most naive non-tech people still buys from them.

Comment · 2 years ago
They claim that the new models "are significantly less likely to refuse to answer prompts that border on the system’s guardrails than previous generations of models", looks like about a third of "incorrect refusals" compared to Claude 2.1. Given that Claude 2 was completely useless because of this, this still feels like a big limitation.
Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
>It tells me at a glance whether some area is a forest or just a field. Everything's just the same color in Google Maps.

Thank you. Everyone is talking about the color of the water or the roads, but this doesn't even bother me. But having all vegetation of any kind in the same color is an absolutely mind-bogglingly stupid decision. I can't be the only one who uses Maps to check the extents of a forest, for example. Or who uses shapes of different land uses to quickly orient oneself on a map.

Comment · 3 years ago
It's not the network that's the bottleneck, but the Javascript-bloated mess of the frontend.

edit: That isn't to say that Jira and Confluence are the only offenders. They aren't even the worst. Slack/Teams/Rocket.Chat are all just as bad and make me consider switching to a career without computers on a regular basis.

Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
Glad to hear I'm not the only one who can't stand the new design.

Fortunately, I found that Wikipedia allows to select the old design in the account preferences when you're logged in. You can even switch back to the very old pre-2010 theme.

Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
Huh. When I compare RAW output from my D5300 (using the default 18-55 mm lens) and a Pixel 6, the difference is staggering. Granted, the JPG output from the Pixel is usually on par with the JPG from the DSLR, high dynamic range is something where the Pixel is even a bit better most of the time.

But once you take RAW photos and hit the Auto button in Lightroom, the Pixel doesn't hold a chance against the D5300.

Comment · 4 years ago
Q: If you were a large language model trained by OpenAI, which large language model trained by OpenAI would you be?

A: I would be GPT-3, the largest and most advanced language model trained by OpenAI.

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