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Is fast fashion not a thing in the US? I was under the impression it was, but perhaps I was wrong...

The steam machine handily beats apple in terms of dollar per TFLOP and dollar per GB memory. It's also easier to upgrade, making it likely to last longer.

Unified memory puts Apple in it's own category for certain workloads however, but since we're talking about gaming here, and not local LLMs, Apple simply cannot compete on any kind of value comparison

Wow the animation makes it really look like an asshole!

Agreed. Half the thickness and ~2x the screen size and it would've been an instant buy. 2x the screen size and same thickness and I'd have to think about it.

As is I'll keep my eyes peeled for future versions, I really like the concept, and deal-breaker might be fixed in the future

I once held the belief that any marketing material showed the exact opposite of reality, and this page does exactly that: It doesn't stop AI from reading it, but it sure stops me!

The loose sound switch and broken power button came later, but the rest was day one.

Yeah I've also heard good things about their early devices, which was why I got this one. Maybe they used to be good? As of the 8t, they definitely weren't good anymore though

The issues are legion. First thing I noticed was the addition of bloat. The "stock android"was a main selling point for me, but I do not feel they delivered. The ultra fast charging has been nice on occasion, but I think it's done more harm than good: the battery deteriorated faster than any phone I've had before it. I've had lots of issues with the usb-c port, it keeps spitting out cables, occasionally doesn't connect properly. The behind-the-screen fingerprint reader is a really cool feature, unfortunately it's so unreliable I've stopped using it completely since it's faster to use the pin code than doing 8 scans of my finger. Lately the power button has stopped working which is super annoying, if I run out of batteries my phone is dead until an alarm rings, which turns it on again. The sound slider is a cool idea, unfortunately it interacts weirdly with several apps. The worst of which is it opens "find in page"in my web browser any time I touch it. Oh and it became loose and occasionally switches on its own, but that's wear and tear I guess... There is so much wrong with this phone...

The issues are legion. First thing I noticed was the addition of bloat. The "stock android"was a main selling point for me, but I do not feel they delivered. The ultra fast charging has been nice on occasion, but I think it's done more harm than good: the battery deteriorated faster than any phone I've had before it. I've had lots of issues with the usb-c port, it keeps spitting out cables, occasionally doesn't connect properly. The behind-the-screen fingerprint reader is a really cool feature, unfortunately it's so unreliable I've stopped using it completely since it's faster to use the pin code than doing 8 scans of my finger. Lately the power button has stopped working which is super annoying, if I run out of batteries my phone is dead until an alarm rings, which turns it on again. The sound slider is a cool idea, unfortunately it interacts weirdly with several apps. The worst of which is it opens "find in page"in my web browser any time I touch it. Oh and it became loose and occasionally switches on its own, but that's wear and tear I guess...

There is so much wrong with this phone...

My wife had fair phone 4, and it was unusable. It was only time she replaced a phone prematurely. She cares a lot about camera though, and likes to take pictures. Her main complaint was that the camera took like 5 seconds to start, so she'd miss the moment. And when it did finally start the quality was really bad.

I tried using it a bit but I couldn't stand how unresponsive it was.

I don't know if their later phones have gotten better,I hope so, because I love everything about that company except their (previous) products.

Good call. I've got the 8t and it's horrendous. I bought because I kept hearing good things about their earlier models and figured it would translate. It didn't.

Next will be a pixel for sure.

I had the exact opposite experience. I replaced my pixel 1 with a OnePlus 8t and I've been kicking myself ever since for not going with a new pixel. This phone is awful! My original pixel was so much better than the several years newer 8t. I absolutely long for the day I can finally, in good conscience, replace this piece of trash with a new pixel phone. I think the day is near. Finally.

Good. I have a OnePlus 8t and it's the worst phone I've ever owned. I've hated it since day one, but I'd feel bad replacing a new phone, so I've kept it all these years anyway. It's now old enough for me to consider a replacement (finally!). This announcement doesn't really change anything for me, I'd never buy OnePlus again anyway, but at least it keeps others from making the same mistake I did.

They seem to have a lot of goodwill from customers. I'll never understand why.

Written from my OnePlus 8t.

I think the t is for "trash"

Really? Huh.... Memory is a fickle thing, isn't it?

Silly nitpick but the free market absolutely can, and has in the past, put a monetary (positive)value on your person.

We have of course abolished slavery since then.

Which is a weird way of saying I don't think we necessarily should put a monetary value to people. Instead we need to realize that money isn't everything in life. So much of life is unpriceable, and that's as it should be. Attempting to price the unpriceable necessarily makes a mockery of the unpriceable thing.

Google had a platform called circles once that had a really neat solution to this.

If course it being Google, it got cancelled before it had a chance to catch on.

Hey yo,I heard you like diffs, so I put some diffs in your diff so you can diff your diff while you diff!

Sorry, couldn't resist. The xzibit was too strong in your comment.

Pretty insane that you can get this close to the real thing this way.

Rocket league is one of my favourite games, and I'm pretty decent at it (rank champion 1). I kinda felt like my controller was a bit broken when playing this, a lot of commands were just ignored, and forget doing stuff like speed flips. But I did feel like was controlling the car, and everything about the game looked very much like the real thing. Ball movement was on point, I didn't notice any weird bounces or anything.

The lack of opponents pulling triple flip resets and double-tapping musty's (musties?) was the most notable difference from the real thing

Very thankful someone is doing this work! I suspect it will be thankless work for a while: we're not far enough into diminishing gains territory for anything other than the absolute best being worth considering for most people, but I reckon we will be pretty soon. If a year from now swe 2.0 or whatever reaches fable 5 parity for a fraction of the cost, that'll be very attractive indeed!

Dammit! I live in Europe and the cyber truck isn't even available here..

That said a huge pickup truck is about as far as you can get from a Camaro... Then again I'm not exactly David Hasslehoff myself either... Meh if it talks that's close enough!

Wait, you can talk to Teslas now? How did I miss thiS? Can I get a red led bar and basically have a KITT?

I don't understand this line of reasoning. How are you hindered from doing any of those things? What part of "AI can now do X" makes it so you can't also do X?

Believe it or not, shit happens in the software business.

I know this from personal experience.

Yeah that seems about right! I mean, it is a property of the code itself also, but the code is not the only place quality resides. I think it's fair expect that any piece of software will require updates, and a high quality code base is easier to modify than a poor quality one. But, as you point out, surrounding process, people working on it etc etc etc are also super important.

Software very rarely exist in a vacuum

I think readability is very important for quality. It creates resilience against any hardship that requires changing the code, which is probably most hardships.

I disagree with the initial premise

>Quality is the absence of problems

A low quality code base can be problem free if surrounding circumstances are forgiving enough. Conversely, a high quality codebase can have a lot of problems in difficult circumstances.

I haven't thought about it long enough to have a definition of quality that I'm really happy with, but I think a "resilience to hardships" would be a better definition of quality. Hardships can come in many forms, and often you're prepared for some of them but not all. Occasionally you'll be prepared for hardships that never occur. There is something to be said for being resilient against the correct kinds of hardships, which is why I'm not entirely pleased with my definition either.

But absence of problems is not it. That might be entirely circumstantial and is therefore orthogonal to quality.

I thought this was gonna be about uptime.

Well I wasn't very far off I guess! Perhaps "5 nines" is a good threshold for new CSS features too?

Probably Europe. Seems more attractive for researchers. China is probably too different to be attractive for most Americans.

R.F Turner is a pretty nice example of nominative determinism. Parents up and named him "radio frequency dial", so of course he works in antenna technology

Nope! Works on for me as well! Chrome on android...

I think you guys are just being salty because it's X