This is nice and all but I can't help think the current situation is pretty grim.
Computers talking to computers using natural language and speech synthesis. What a complete waste of resources. Perhaps in the future we won't have APIs at all, just LLMs talking to LLMs.
And robots fighting robots in wars. Might as well lets just have something like starcraft between the nations without the robot to determine the winner. Way more resource efficient.
I wanted to write something different to try out the font. My first instinct is to delete "I Am Bagel" completely and write something myself. However as soon as I delete it, it comes back. So I have to keep at least one letter on the screen, write what I want to write, then delete that letter afterwards (edit: or select the whole text and start writing). Maybe there could be a short timeout before "I Am Bagel" appears again after it is deleted. That will give the user time to start writing something.
I guess one could try the font out after following the "Full characters" link. However you implemented screen capturing on the initial page, so you obviously want people to write things there.
I realize it's a nitpick but I was unreasonably upset that I couldn't delete everything and start writing from scratch :)
Yes I thought of that after posting and edited it in :)
But not being able to delete everything in a text box is really bothering me. It's like an itch :)
Thanks for the comment! I actually just fixed this—it’s something I was aware of but had been putting off. I really appreciate you pointing it out. It might seem like a small thing, but you're absolutely right that little details like this matter a lot. Thanks again for taking the time to mention it :)
I really want to switch to Firefox but cannot because it doesn't sync bookmark favicons.
My bookmarks bar is filled with bookmarks without names that I can recognize by the icons. I refuse to re-visit every bookmark when I login from a new PC, which is often.
Every other browser sync solution has this feature. Firefox insists on not implementing it because what, it's too much data to sync? I'd pay for it if it was a premium feature.
If anyone has a browser agnostic bookmark syncing solution that can sync the favicons, let me know.
I do this as well i.e delete the name of a bookmark using only it's favicon to identify it.
When you login to Firefox. Just right click your bookmarks and hit open all in new tabs. It will open all 500+ tabs. Leave it for a few minutes all all the favicons will be loaded.
The thing is that Firefox has SO MANY papercuts in this category. They all seem minor but they all represent a deal breaker for one user or another. For me it's the address bar on the bottom on mobile (ludicrous decision, whoever came up with that should leave the industry and I mean that) and their refusal to auto fill credit cards on mobile even though I know it works on desktop and I know it works in other regions.
Firefox badly needs someone who gives a shit about user experience.
In the settings on Firefox mobile, under Customize, you can choose between address bar on the top or on the bottom of the screen.
Personally I keep it at the bottom, as it's much closer to my thumbs and also the keyboard, so I don't have to adjust my hands to type in a url or search query.
I switched from Brave to Vivaldi as my second browser on Android because it's still stuck in the 2010's with it's address bar at the top with no ability to change it. The most sold phones for the last half decade have all been 5-6 inches, and unless you have gigantic hands you need to reposition your hand in order to go from typing on the keyboard to the bottom to tapping the URL bar, so I'm on the other side of the fence, very glad that they default to the bottom URL bar and actually have the option to change it to the top for those that want it.
> I refuse to re-visit every bookmark when I login from a new PC, which is often.
Why not? How often?
This should take literally 5s using the bookmark manager, right click on "Bookmarks Toolbar", "Open All Bookmarks". Then some more to load the websites I guess.
I have thousands of bookmarks that also have names but I would still like to see the icons before clicking the link. Sometimes the name doesn't hint at what kind of resource the bookmark was at a glance. Is it a youtube video, is it an article?
I already have access to that information at the time of bookmarking. I don't want to lose it and then have to get it again.
Unless you're on Android. Android doesn't give extensions access to sync. When I update ublock manually (usually to make things go away on my phone, hence the need) I have to manually export it.
Sweet. After rereading OP and your post, I believe I misinterpreted it. But I will say I have that problem too...
Problem A: What OP and you are talking about: When you switch computers to one that doesn't have the bookmarks, you have to click through every one to get the icon to populate.
Problem B: Once FF has an icon, it will never update it. Even if you delete and re-add the the bookmark. I have no workaround for this.
I delete the name on purpose so I can utilize the horizontal space the bookmarks bar provides more effectively.
I name the bookmarks that are not directly on the bar but live in other folders. However I would still not want to lose that bit of metadata. Icons hint at what site the resource is from at a glance.
yeah, mozilla do need to do some work on the "narrow screen experience" on desktop. Too many builtin things that take up space around the url bar and can't be moved.
1) The half transparent green font color is really hard to read over a white background.
2) It fails to recongize already filled in squares and tries to change them. The source is computer generated and the image is pretty clear. It seems like a best case scenario for digit recongnition, nevertheless it fails.
3) It constantly re-evaluates while I'm trying to hold the puzzle up to the camera with varying degrees of success. Too fast for me to get a screen grab when I see a successful attempt among all the failures.
I've recently made a change to try to improve results (Specifically the thresholding step when it's processing the image).
For me it's now finding the grid a bit more consistently, though your mileage may vary.
I've noticed the digit recognition still struggles a bit when looking at a screen though. Perhaps I need to get a bit more data for training the model.
Turkish word for heat when related to temperature is "sıcak", when related to peppers is "acı".
But "acı" can also mean bitter. You have to look at the context to understand. However things can both be spicy and bitter. In that case it gets complicated :)
In my experience good is never cheap, regardless of how long it takes. In fact most of the time the longer it takes the more expensive it is. This triangle thing is a meme at this point.
I don't know if you'd consider this to be part of the same triangle, but one exception I've found is when _waiting to start_ makes something cheaper.
E.g. waiting until someone else makes something so you don't need to make it yourself, waiting for some new technology to become cheaper before jumping on it, waiting until an opportunity cost isn't as high, etc.
… waiting for a team to be free and no new project in the pipeline. It’s how we often got teams full over the summer: offer clients a discount for waiting.
The actual triangle is much better when you don’t add in the common admonishment/instruction “pick two”. I have no idea why that’s added in.
The much better instruction is “pick a point on the triangle”. If you want it as good as possible, it’s neither cheap nor fast. You can have kinda good and kinda cheap, but it won’t be fast at all. And so on.
When you're a plumber talking to a homeowner, or any human talking to any other human... seriously triangle diagrams and pick a point in 2d space along 3 axis...? It's a valid graph but it does not roll off the tongue and does not convey the point as simply and quickly. It just adds granularity and complication to the same essential concept.
That next level of refinement maybe comes later in the same conversation, but the shorter sound byte still comes first and is not wrong just because it's the outline rather than the full dissertation.
You have to take the context in to account and then it makes more sense.
For example: unskilled labour used to be essentially free. In that case good and cheap meant either training someone (slow) or finding someone who already did it as a hobby (slow because they are hard to find then don’t prioritize your project).
Similarly: the culture it was created in didn’t value “personal time” so doing it yourself over time with a minimal cash budget was considered cheap. Now we’re all pretty familiar with opportunity costs and paying ourselves for sustainability.
Personally, while I feel like this triangle does show it’s age a bit it still serves as an excellent reminder when Those In Charge are trying to justify convincing themselves that they can have all three. Thankfully just that checkin has multiplied more than a few invoices so that there’s enough budget for quality.
I think the point is that to go faster, you have to throw disproportionately more people at something, and probably build it in a different way to accommodate that, and test the integration of their work more. Cost is people x time, not just time. Three people working steadily for a year will be far more efficient than 20 people working for 6 months.
Other than that I like the idea. More and more I look for apps that do one simple thing and do it well.