Well that's another gimmick, right. It has like 20 different programs, but the one I only ever use is "Cotton - extra dry" because that's the one that actually gets everything properly dry. Every other setting leaves things slightly wet which I don't understand how that's desirable by anyone.
I don't understand what went wrong here, for a while the Nissan Leaf was _the_ economical all electric sedan. Toyota was and still is dragging their feet on it and Nissan had a lead for years just to blow it?
For starters, the Leaf wasn't a sedan, it was a hatchback. In the US market, hatchbacks have always significantly lagged sedans in sales despite being more practical. The regular Prius has evolved to look sleeker and sportier with each generation, but the boxy hatchback Prius V variant was quickly discontinued after introduction due to poor sales.
US consumer preference seems to weigh aesthetic appeal much more than other markets, even at the cost of function. Some other examples are the rugged boxy SUVs that have an aerodynamic/fuel economy penalty compared to their sleek blob counterparts, or the the coupe SUVs that sacrifice both rear headroom and storage capacity for a "sportier" look.
Several things: hatchbacks do great if you size the up and call them "crossover SUVs" - see Mach-E, Ioniq 5, EV6, Ariya, etc.
Also sedans do have a feature - less road noise than a hatchback.
The Leaf failed because a) fast charger support was poor (Chademo vs DC fast or NACS) and slow. b) battery thermal management STILL isn't acceptable and results in degradation.
We got one as a rental and it was really comfortable but I wouldn't buy it because of the above.
Nissan probably has already quit making parts for your car anyways. None of the automakers make parts a priority anymore. The aftermarket will keep your car afloat for a while.
Just changing the technology isn't enough, the whole GUI needs an overhaul.
For example, browsing 'by album' just adds unsightly [+] icons that are hard to hit with fat fingers on a touch screen. There should be a carousel of album art that you can swipe left or right! If there's no album art, just show a grey card and the first 10 letters of the artist's name in 8pt white letters. Once you select an album, you see the tracks on that album sorted by length, because radio edits are short and obviously the most popular tracks, so they should be on top. If you click shuffle, it will shuffle all of the tracks of the current artist (since we showed the artist's name, well the first 10 letters, so you should be a fan of all of their work). But you can also add tracks to a playlist (that's not shown), by long-pressing them. And to remove them, double tap. Everyone will try those gestures at some point in time, so it's easy to discover. Besides, they will both make a sound. Don't worry about it not being loud enough, the UI sounds will play at volume 10, and they will pause the track being played, so you don't miss anything. Playback controls are easy, just one button to play/pause/rewind (double tap)/fast forward (triple tap). And long press (10% longer than short press) to reset the playback position. Wait, we also need a control to record audio to reclaim the space being used by the mp3 currently playing, like dubbing over a tape, extra-long press will do that. Maybe that's hard to remember, so quadruple tap will also do. There should be incessant popups to remember to use the replaygain functionality, without explaining what it does (store the replaygain figures on a Google sheet, but not use them for playback yet, because the volume control uses the pinch zoom-in and pinch zoom-out gestures and we're unsure which gesture to use to enable/disable using replaygain)
couple years ago, i did try but after hours of attempts, i just couldn't install working version of Eole-foobar-theme, is it possible to run these days?
I've never heard of that. It looks like it packages some dodgy components, notably foo_spider_monkey_panel. I only know that fb2k with its official components work reliably.
Unfortunately, the theme is written in javascript, so this is basically a middleware
It was the first and last time i was able to perfectly customize my player to what i wanted though
I don't mind Ctrl+Shift+C so much, except that I mess it up several times a day, and that combo opens dev tools in Chrome, which takes several seconds to load on my work machine, messes up what I was doing and is a general nuisance. I wish there was a way to NOOP that combo in Chrome.
A US Tiananmen-comparable example would be ChatGPT censoring George Floyd's death or killing of Native Americans, etc. ChatGPT doesn't censor these topics
There may not be a proper US example. But if you ask a western LLM about the impact of the 20th century Nordic involuntary sterilizations, you’ll see some heavy RLHF fingerprints. Not going to make an argument one way or another on that, other than to say I would not expect the same answers from a Chinese LLM.
There are two sexes, based on whether or not a Y chromosome is present. However, there are an arbitrary number of genders, which are themselves quantities with an arbitrary number of dimensions.
Point being, sexes are something Nature made up for purposes of propagation, while genders are something we made up for purposes of classification.
Yep, a good reminder that fixed natural categories are another thing that we like to invent (and when we feel it necessary, impose by force), where they seldom exist in reality.
In this case, if you don’t have a phone that can display Ticketmaster’s code, you’re just SOL, since they decided to break being able to just print out your code.
It's been a long time since I visited the Ars forums, but the news article commenters today are absolutely deranged. It makes me want to not engage with the forums again.
I feel like most commenters in general are absolutely deranged. News articles are the worst for some reason, then YouTube, and Reddit isn’t that much better. I often wonder how these people look, work and function in real life.
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