southsamurai (he/him/pronoun agnostic)

Tim Sweeny makes another public display of his idiocy

I wouldn’t go so far as to say I’m a cultist, but pink lady is my favorite, at least when the stores are getting them relatively fresh. Like the apple expert said, it makes a difference.

The reason I like them so much is the balance of tart and sweet. I also don’t just bite into apples as the skin slips between my teeth too easily, and it hurts because my gums are sensitive as hell. I slice them.

But, I do enjoy occasionally going for baking apples like a granny smith just for eating raw. They aren’t always super tart, but even the sweeter ones will make me pucker a little. Which I like tbh, to a degree.

But the pink lady, on average, is two or three steps down from the usual granny. Sweet enough to pair with anything I want (within reason), but still able to be eaten by itself.

Never had a sweetango. Have to keep an eye out for them.

I’m going to add to the previous responses that a token is also the billing unit used.

If you hire a lawyer, they charge a rate based on their predetermined “billable hours” arrangement. They beak down their jobs into small time segments, often much smaller than an actual hour. Similar to how a mechanic might use a predetermined labor cost based on a time estimate chart; swapping a battery takes X time, but rebuilding an engine takes Y time, with the actual number of hours and minutes not being useful in terms of billing because neither lawyers or mechanics can precisely track exactly how much of the time they’re digging working on your specific job is being spent “hands on” vs the time necessary to do all the little things that come up to interrupt the work. So they bill by the abstracted time a job takes when stripped of real world necessity.

Tokens are, as others said, chunks of data. When you enter a prompt, and get a response, those chunks get tallied up and billed for. From what I’ve read (and I’m not in the field, not even as s hobbyist/amateur; I just wanted to know exactly what you asked) the various companies bill by large chunks, usually per million tokens, or a similar chunks.

As an example, a given word might only need three tokens to process as input, and another three as output. But, because the cost of doing that work is more intensive to output (generate) a response, output costs more per unit. Now, I’m not saying the capitalist hellscape reality of that is a good thing, I’m just saying that’s the reasoning of the capitalist twats that run the companies. Anywhere other than lemmy, I might not need that disclaimer lol.

Now, why they chose token as the jargon, I’ve never looked to see if I could find an answer, but that’s just me wondering just enough to type it, but not enough to go looking ;)

Did you mean oh Magog? Because you shouldn’t ignore the one true doug

Well, out of what I’ve used for any length of time, mullvad, nord, air, and proton were all reliable for me. Then again, ivpn was too. Ivpn was slow as hell compared to mullvad and nord for me though; as slow or slower than free tier proton. I’ve tried others, but never long term enough to feel comfortable saying anything beyond that you do get what you pay for with a VPN. The super cheap ones tend to be molasses, or have other service issues.

Which, it’s weird as hell that ivpn was so slow compared to mullvad because a lot of their exit servers are the exact same. Most of the European exits, and as near as I could tell, all of the U.S. ones were in the same data centers. Iirc, mullvad rents hardware directly, whereas ivpn does it via software? Maybe? It was a struggle finding useful information with the way search engines have turned so shitty (even the better ones).

I think I had the least problems with air and mullvad, overall. Air, my only real complaint was their clients suck. The service was flawless, but you either set things up on your own, or deal with horrible ui and ux on their clients (with the android one being worse). Mullvad, I have zero complaints about their service or clients. It’s the political shit I have issue with

The recommendations for the Ricoh are solid, I’ve seen pics taken on one, and have snapped a few for the person that owns it. Simple to use, plenty good quality, and not too big to make it practical to carry all the time.

That last one is the real kicker. There’s a saying that gets beat to death in photography of any level: the best camera is the one you have with you. It’s why phone cameras have made so many more pics than is even sane. We carry them almost everywhere, and they’re quick to deploy.

Mind you, any pocket friendly camera from maybe the last ten years or so is going be at least usable. The Ricoh is just one of the more reliable ones and doesn’t sacrifice much in the way of the hardware. You can tell a difference between that and a full size slr with a decent lens, but you can also tell the difference between it and a phone cam.

Edit: I will also say that used is necessary for most people, they ain’t cheap.

Fake: anon had friends.

Gay:anon had tits, which makes them a girl. And everyone knows they’re the gayest thing a man can do

Fake, because no matter how much we would all love to mouth fuck a tentacled wonder, we also all know that the barrier to doing so isn’t the beak.

Gay, because shokushu