I think there's a huge missed opportunity of learning keyboard layouts with a smartphone. You get labels for free, and it's much easier to learn how to manage 2 fingers than to manage 10 at once. But once you get proficient enough to touch type(not that touch), you can still map the muscle memory onto a physical keyboard and you will already be 80% done. The remaining 20% is locating the right key with the right finger, which will sort itself out once you start typing. I learned Dvorak this way.
In the winter of 2022, France had to restart permanently shut down coal plants[0] and pump gas to Germany[1] for electricity because of a pipe crack that made half of their nuclear plants go into maintenance. Note that this was on top of curtailing energy use (funny enough, because of gas, not nuclear[2]).
You could say "that was a once-in-a-lifetime kind of event!" (I'd love to have machine without flaws but nuclear fusion would be faster) but, if it wasn't for the European grid, this could have resulted in prolonged emergency saving measures or possibly a (partial) blackout. Nuclear power is often touted as the stable one, but ironically, solar and wind would not suffer from this kind of problem because they are inherently variable in output. If energy storage for renewables was already a headache, imagine an energy storage system for nuclear.
The article is too US-centric to a fault. Basically all project's costs after 1970s balloon to an extent. Japan's cost has risen. French, while only slightly, has risen. Same for India. Only S. Korea have seen construction prices fall, but notice the price bottoming out after the 1990s. It's only maintaining the price, not getting lower.
Regardless, these other countries didn't contribute that much to increase global nuclear power capacity. In both India and China nuclear doesn't even count as the majority in their low-carbon energy mix, which is still dwarfed by the massive deployment of coal. S. Korea is slacking on low-carbon sources in general. Japan has lost trust (rightfully) on nuclear and decided to reset their entire nuclear generation capacity. No country has expanded their energy grid with nuclear. Except France, who only did it because of the oil crisis.
I have clarified my original comment. Regarding your comment:
> Japan is in the process of restarting all of their nuclear plants.
They are still "in the process" after 12 years, and their capacity is still less than half of pre-Fukushima level. Japan has had more solar generation than nuclear since 2014.
They are proper cameras, with proper camera-sized sensors, and some model had interchangable lenses. One of them, for better or for worse, even came with Android. https://op-co.de/blog/posts/galaxy_nx/
Intel lately has been throwing everything under the sun to see if it sticks: first the heterogeneous P- and E-Cores, then the silicon-on-silicon packaging, unhinged power profile to the point of system instability, and now embedded RAM. Everything, everything except for a significant architectural improvements.
They are just being desperate. Desperate because they can't crack the code on improving the fundamental architecture. So they are pushing everything else to their limit and bulldozing over consumer choice and repairability in the process.
There's no other explanation. AMD does none of this and still eats Intel for lunch.
A small correction: KakaoTalk is not an "all in one" app like WeChat. The main chat app does contain anciliary features such as gifting that enabled this exploit, but you can't call a taxi on KakaoTalk, you do that on Kakao T, a mobility app that also offers rental scooters, e-bikes, and train and flight booking. Similarly, even though the messenger app does have integration with its payment platform (cleverly named KakaoPay), the service itself lives in a dedicated app. It's like Google on Android where you could access bunch of services with one central ID, which I presume is why their apps have so many access points: they need it for themselves.
> Similarly, even though the messenger app does have integration with its payment platform (cleverly named KakaoPay), the service itself lives in a dedicated app.
Just like WeChat, KakaoPay is fully integrated in KakaoTalk to the extent that the large majority of users use KakaoPay only through KakaoTalk. The existence of the separate KakaoPay app doesn't have much of an impact. You can transfer money, receive money, and make payments through KakaoTalk, without using the KakaoPay app.
while everyone's focusing on audio capabilities (haven't heard them yet), i find it amusing that the official demo ("robot writer's block" in particular) of image generation can't even match the verbatim instruction, and the error's not even consistent between generations even as it should be aware of previous contexts. and this is their second generation of multimodal llm capable of generating images.
looks like llms still gonna llm for the near future.
part of me wonders if the reason apple went with an unusual double jump in processor generation is that they are fearing or at least trying to delay comparison with other desktop class arm processors. wonder if mac lineup will get m4 at all or start with m4 pro or something. we'll see.
Doesn't add up, if you fear something about to launch will outdo your product in a given segment then you push that launch earlier, not later so your competitor is also first to market.
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