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by thimabi 2y ago
My biggest problem with the Forma is that, even when completely turned off, the battery dies and refuses to charge for days on end. One day, the device says it is charged to 100%; the following day, it dies without an apparent reason. I’ve
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by thimabi 2y ago
I wonder why they did not add color e-ink to the Kindle Scribe. Maybe they thought the price would be prohibitively expensive?
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by thimabi 2y ago
I decided to ditch their devices because of the support I got — or lack thereof. First they refused to talk to me, because, for privacy reasons, my device was unregistered. I ended up registering it, and even so they offered just a 10% disc
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by thimabi 2y ago
You’re lucky. I’ve seen books disappear from my Kindle even in flight mode. I wonder what is behind such a persistent bug.
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by thimabi 2y ago
I read several types of books, multiple hours per day: reflowable fiction books, PDFs, books generated from my Markdown notes… I’ve got a Paperwhite, a Scribe and a Kobo Forma, but I’m still searching for the perfect e-reader. The Paperwhit
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by thimabi 2y ago
You can find Calibre plugins to convert the books to KFX, Amazon’s native format. There’s also a plugin to recover actual page numbers rather than loc markers in the books. It’s not very intuitive, but it’s doable given the options Amazon g
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by thimabi 2y ago
The color model is expensive, indeed. My guess is that they will quietly offer discounts after the hype goes away.
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by thimabi 2y ago
> The issue is Amazon and how even if you want to put your own purchased ebooks on it, you have it send it through their servers. You can sideload your books over USB too, using Calibre for instance. I own a few Kindle models and a Kobo
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Amazon refreshes its monochrome Kindle lineup(arstechnica.com)
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Very valuable. It contained a Facebook satellite (actually a French one) that was to provide internet connectivity to Africa.
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Nuclear weapons have not prevented major world powers from engaging in proxy wars. As we can see today in the Middle East, proxy wars can make things dangerous and more likely to lead to an unwanted escalation. Mutually assured destruction
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As the name says, customary international law is not written. It arises from international practices that have become so widespread that states begin to recognize they have a legal obligation to continue them (opinio juris). Current literat
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But was it really obvious? From what I can tell, much of the nuclear arms race happened thanks to espionage. Had information on warheads and the like been properly contained, maybe other countries would not have so easily developed the bomb
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That depends on where you live. There are people right now in certain places who are terrified of the nuclear threat.
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At a time when Russia threatens the use of nuclear weapons in Ukraine, Israel and Iran escalate tensions, North Korea tests missiles and warheads… it is hard not to relate the award to these circumstances. Perhaps the committee thought it w
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by thimabi 2y ago
Congratulations to Nihon Hidankyo! As said in the announcement, even 80 years after those bombs were dropped in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, we still need to highlight the dangers of nuclear weapons. The threat and use of such weapons is still a
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by thimabi 2y ago
> The letter of the law matters. I respect your opinion, but that is really not how the Brazilian legal system works. For instance, the constitution says that “the home is the inviolable refuge of the individual”, but this applies not on
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by thimabi 2y ago
That is a true system of checks and balances at play
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The constitutional right to free speech in Brazil is not an absolute right. In fact, it is a well-known fact to Brazilian legal scholars and practitioners that there are no absolute rights under Brazilian law - every right must be equally r
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by thimabi 2y ago
Palau was the last colonized territory to achieve independence with help of the United Nations’ Trusteeship Council, in 1994. Since then, the Council still exists on paper, but is inactive in practice. It took three decades for Palau to joi
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by thimabi 2y ago
Although you’re being downvoted, I do agree with your perspective. ChatGPT, despite its limitations, has been a godsend for me. I translate tons of texts to multiple languages, and ChatGPT not only provides pretty accurate translations as a
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by thimabi 2y ago
The problem is that, as it stands today, FSD requires constant human attention to catch its eventual mistakes. Humans are notoriously bad at that, and the promises of FSD make drivers even more oblivious to their surroundings, ultimately wo
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by thimabi 2y ago
Does anyone know how these models fare in terms of multilingual real-world usage? I’ve used previous iterations of llama models and they all seemed to be lacking in that regard.
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They do not. China sometimes — though not always — endorses and enforces Security Council sanctions against North Korea, and acts as a moderating force in its contacts with North Korean leadership. Substantial differences of opinion between
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by thimabi 2y ago
As Saddam’s Iraq unfortunately proved when invading Kuwait, it is really easy to destroy oil fields, and much harder to clean up the damage. I can’t see much difference between that and destroying chip fabs.
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We survived the Cold War because the U.S. and the Soviet Union were able to rationally agree on not using nuclear weapons. I sure believe countries today can rationally agree on avoiding war for fear of the economic consequences.
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Nowadays, with so much automation going around, Vietnam can afford to become the next China even without a comparable population. Not that I think it will, but see the story of the Four Asian Tigers to realize how smaller countries can sudd
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I tried to have it solve an easy Sudoku grid too, but in my case it failed miserably. It kept making mistakes and saying that there was a problem with the puzzle (there wasn’t).
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I believe that is the case. Out of curiosity, I had this model try to solve a very simple Sudoku puzzle in ChatGPT, and it failed spectacularly. It goes on and on making reasoning mistakes, and always ends up claiming that the puzzle is uns
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by thimabi 2y ago
IMO these glasses did not work out because of privacy concerns or lack of usefulness, but rather because many felt “dorky” and attracted unwanted attention when wearing them.

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