They should have used a screen for the front plate and have the IA generate a visual. But then they'd pass the $20 per plate.
I don't like these kind of products, what I get in breadth I lose in depth, it's like having a enormous Steam library but only play the first half an hour of each game because I have limited time to invest and too many things. I'm already overwhelmed with my Katana 100.
I will say though, for a beginner, the breadth-first approach isn't bad--they don't know a good phaser from a bad phaser, but they know a phaser from a not-phaser; let them learn what a phaser is from a cheap DSP pedal, and if they like the sound, they can buy a real one.
This is more or less how i learned guitar effects, using cheap digital multi units from ~2005-2010; adding a natural language interface to that doesn't have to be bad, though I'd obviously prefer it explain what it's doing and not just presenting an un-investigable final output. Regardless, there is and always will be a market for beginner guitarists, and at the right price point, i could see this being good for them.
I agree a good multi-effect is useful to learn what the different effects actually do, but there are good entry-level multi-effect pedals that are cheaper than that. And this pedal can only have one effect at a time.
Also, it seems there's no preview in their AI playground, so you have to burn tokens and upload the effect to test it, and it may take lots of iterations to get what you want.
So I think this could mainly interest developers who are able to use it as a platform to develop their own effects without going through the AI thing, and beginners who want to be able to use different community effects to test things.
Author seems to enjoy writing posts that get lots of votes on site that I would describe as eye-rending, especially the "normal" yellow color scheme. It's aggressively unpleasant to read.
I started to use PTA several times already, and I always have an issue with the granularity of transactions. For example when I go to the local supermarket, do I track food and hygiene products separately ? Some supermarkets give the subtotal for different categories, some don´t. It could be useful to see where the money goes.
I'm about to start out again and I chose not to track different categories individually, knowing that I can still add sub-accounts to distinguish between them later (even if I can´t recover the information for older transactions.)
Now I just need to investigate how to track gains/losses on the ETFs I own but that's common enough that there should be information out there on how to do it.
It's about the value to you versus the effort you put in. For me the granularity you are talking about is too much effort. All my supermarket shops go in one big category "groceries and household".
Start easy and see what you want to get out of the data. If you can store the original source (e.g receipts) so that you can later go back and increase the granularity if you find yourself wanting it, that would be ideal.
Right, don't let decision paralysis prevent tracking.
I just put "Groceries" account based on the total that gets charged to my card. If there's a substantial item that doesn't fall into groceries then I can split that out on a case-by-case basis (e.g. I go to Costco and buy both a bunch of cereal and a dehumidifier).
I charge different category items on different receipts which means doing several transactions at the store. Thankfully, its only 1 time per week. I've gotten pretty quick at it at the self checkout.
It would not solve the ABI problem, but it would give at least an opinionated end to end API that was at some point the official API of an OS. It has some praise on its design too.
It was more about everything since the Amiga being a regression. BeOS was sometimes called a successor (in spirit) to the Amiga : a fun, snappy, single-user OS.
I regularly install HaikuOS in a VM to test it and I think I could probably use it as a daily driver, but ported software often does not feel completely right.
A webcam on Aliexpress is around 5 euros. Throw in a microcontroller that's like 2 euros on aliexpress, a 10 euro screen and you still have a 30-ish euro budget for the actual door that's probably plastic (acrylic and something like PE ?). So yeah, probably more expensive.
But that doesn't means that doesn't exists ! We can see that all the time in supermarket, but I guess their needs are different.
If there is anything I've learned in my country (with national health care) where it's common for doctors to ignore you and say it's nothing, is to be overly pushy and even rude. It could be nothing, but a lot of time instincts are correct, and it's a mild embarrassment if you are making a fuss over nothing, but could be a life or death situation. And you could argue that everyone behaving like this is making it worse, and that might be right. But I remember multiple national headlines in recent years where little kids died of pneumonia after being sent home because they ruled out infection, sometimes even after parents already brought the kid back for the second or third time to the hospital after their condition wasn't improving. I know I'm not making chances even if it means getting a second opinion or driving to a different town to a different hospital, sometimes it's better to take things into your own hands than be complacent and rely solely on the medical system doing the right thing.
My son almost died in the first 24 hours of life. I said, "There's something wrong. There's something wrong." multiple times and the nurses finally told me, "YOU NEED TO CHILL OUT." I did chill out....
Next morning the pediatrician did his rounds, checked on my son, and immediately started speaking Latin, to go over our heads while rushing around and getting equipment to clear his lungs of amniotic fluid.
Reminds me of what my first engineering boss told me -- "When the people on the line say there is a problem. There is a problem."
I learned english at school in France, and we're notoriously bad at teaching foreign languages. The approach is way to academic and mainly based on reading. That's why our accents are often atrocious. I was good at written tests, but what allowed me to actually get fluent (as in being able to think in english and convert my thoughts to speech in real time) was watching tv series in english with subtitles in english (no translation involved.)
I don't like these kind of products, what I get in breadth I lose in depth, it's like having a enormous Steam library but only play the first half an hour of each game because I have limited time to invest and too many things. I'm already overwhelmed with my Katana 100.
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