> A passively actuated gripping mechanism grasps the powerline cable during landing after which a control circuit regulates the magnetic field inside a split-core current transformer to provide sufficient holding force as well as battery recharging.
My view is that unless you're looking to do something really performance-sensitive (e.g., gaming), specs don't matter nearly as much as user experience: nice screen, nice keyboard and touchpad, decent battery life, good build quality. Entry-level CPUs and SSDs are so good these days that you're really not getting much by spending more on bigger numbers, unless you really care about performance-sensitive use cases.
That has a touchscreen, and isn't a bad deal for $700, depending on your use case.
It's so hard to know if it's a good quality device or if it'll feel like a cheap plastic toy, but if it has survived being on the show floor at Walmart it's probably pretty durable.
Sorry, the only use case I can come up with is if you strictly need a Windows laptop because some software only runs on Windows (e.g. a game or Matlab or something). But for practically everyone else this is a terrible purchase.
I have yet to hear anyone say "kibi" or "gibi" that wasn't mocking the term.
I believe the virtuous answer is that bytes are measured in powers of two, & hard drive manufacturers are dishonest. (Bits are measured in powers of ten)
As always with studies like these, there's the question of applicability of the measures to the hypothesis.
Is the measure of cognitive ability relevant to the claim made in the paper? That is to say, is the measure of cognitive ability ("g" in the paper[0]) actually a good measure of abilities and relevant to long-term financial optimism?
Are both these variables conditional on a third hidden variable? This isn't thoroughly addressed in the paper, the authors choose a series of variables "which are thought to be in principle unaffected by cognitive ability" but even there show that optimism is dependent on e.g. age (Measures -> Control Variables), and additionally mention that "g" is also dependent on age (Measures -> Cognitive Ability).
A high p-value doesn't necessarily indicate that the two variables are causally related, just correlated—and there are plenty of highly correlated datasets that are definitely not causal[1].
It's important to try to disentangle the claims from the data supporting them. The claim that people with lower cognitive ability are more (recklessly) optimistic about their futures seems like it would make sense at least from a
social-Darwinist perspective, but it's exactly those claims that seem reasonable that we should examine more closely. Confirmation bias is a powerful set of blinders.
Beepys have a pretty big issue with randomly shorting out due to a design flaw, according to the Discord forum anecdata. It happened to mine, unfortunately.
A very capable little device before it cooked itself, though—having a raspberry pi in your pocket is a lot of fun.
I just wish you could turn the multilingual keyboard off—I find that I usually only type in one language at a time and having the autocomplete recommend the wrong languages is quite frustrating
That's true, I have found that mildly annoying sometimes. But most of the time it's a win. It was really annoying manually switching modes over and over when typing in mixed-language, which I do fairly often. It'd be great if there was a setting though.
I had the opposite problem, the languages I usually typed in(Romanian + English) didn't have a multi language mode on iOS. So it was a constant pain to switch btw them when I needed to insert some English terms in Romanian sentences. IOS didn't support multi language for this language pair. On Android it always worked like a charm.
Hey I'm Romanian, too. The latest iOS does what you want -- it has multi-language support and typing mixed English + Romanian is seamless now. Yeah it was a total pain to keep switching languages before iOS 17.
I actually went to middle school in a former converted Nike missile radar site, we had the radar up and a lot of old hardware lying around. Definitely a cool experience as a kid.
> A passively actuated gripping mechanism grasps the powerline cable during landing after which a control circuit regulates the magnetic field inside a split-core current transformer to provide sufficient holding force as well as battery recharging.