BoxOfRain

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by BoxOfRain 2mo ago
Yeah I try to refrain from shouting at LLMs for a similar reason, I fear that it'll degrade my own social skills over time by lowering the threshold I think it appropriate to use inclement language and tone in general, including with p
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by BoxOfRain 2mo ago
I quite like the /i-have-adhd plugin which attempts to curtail the verbosity and habit of burying the point.
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by BoxOfRain 2mo ago
I'm currently working on an LLM harness for e-ink and Kimi was very keen to criticise Claude for introducing a bug that I missed in the tool calling logic! Really it should have been telling me off for not auditing Claude well enough.
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by BoxOfRain 2mo ago
The Bigme's boot screen has a 1 Hz animation of the outlined logo filling in with black letter by letter which looks pretty decent in my opinion.
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by BoxOfRain 2mo ago
That's a good shout, surprised this didn't occur to me actually as I was only recently dealing with a print-based feature at work. That's a helpful link, much appreciated.
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by BoxOfRain 2mo ago
> If you’re working with a touch display, perhaps a hold-and-drag-to-scroll feature could work? Have no indicator when pressed and only refresh the screen when the user lifts their finger. I like this idea, definitely going to test it ou
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by BoxOfRain 2mo ago
I really like this, what a cool idea!
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by BoxOfRain 2mo ago
Cheers, will check that repo out. >you cannot rely on color as an accent Yeah definitely found this using some 'normal' webapps, default dark mode makes it worse too.
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by BoxOfRain 2mo ago
I just had a look, definitely a lot to draw from there!
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by BoxOfRain 2mo ago
This is really helpful, much appreciated.
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by BoxOfRain 2mo ago
Yeah I'm dogsitting at my childhood home right now and it's missing the rural pubs on the dog route.
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by BoxOfRain 2mo ago
I would not call Turing's experiment ill-specified, on the contrary among other factors the paper the game is introduced in earnestly calls for a telepathy-proof room to ensure no side channel leakage. The 1950s was an interesting deca
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Ask HN: In your experience, what are sound conventions for e-ink UI development?
219 points by BoxOfRain 2mo ago|74 comments
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by BoxOfRain 2mo ago
That's fair actually! To undermine my own point further, Battersea Power Station in London is iconic. In particular the control rooms were very well-styled with lots of art deco ornamentation, anyone who's listened to Quark, Stra
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by BoxOfRain 2mo ago
I'm not a huge fan of their aesthetic in its own right, but it beats the aesthetic of fossil fuel infrastructure any day in my view.
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by BoxOfRain 2mo ago
My massive Apple annoyance at the moment is how there's an unremovable nag screen for an Apple Music subscription on the iOS app, when all I ever want to do is sync local music to an iphone like it's an ipod in 2006. They just can
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by BoxOfRain 2mo ago
I currently rent a 1930s mid-terrace, literally everything wrong with it is stuff I could address myself if I owned it. It's mostly the years of 'landlord specials' that would need undoing, and I'd reinstate the fireplac
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by BoxOfRain 2mo ago
Fully agree with this in the UK, the king (then Prince Charles) was on the money when he said that unlike the post-war town planners, the Luftwaffe can't be accused of replacing our buildings with anything more offensive than rubble! T
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by BoxOfRain 2mo ago
Despite the fearsome smell when it’s collected together in bulk, modern garum in the form of Colatura di Alici is a genuinely magical ingredient. It’s very similar to what the Romans used, except it’s made exclusively from anchovies whereas
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by BoxOfRain 2mo ago
Doom pioneered this model, the Doom engine was open-sourced while the assets remained proprietary. This is where projects like Freedoom exist, to create an entirely free software equivalent.
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by BoxOfRain 2mo ago
I'm not being funny, but anti-authoritarianism and libertarianism are literally political stances. To be anti-authoritarian you need to understand what authoritarianism is, appreciate why it is undesirable to a hacker specifically, and
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by BoxOfRain 2mo ago
The hacker community has always had a strong political element to it, what else is the GNU GPL but a statement of political intent? Anything which deals with the allocation of power and resources is political.
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by BoxOfRain 2mo ago
When I was a student one of my mates was going on about the superiority of the metric system and how he wished the UK would adopt it fully rather than the heterogenous mix we actually have. The football was on in the background, and shortly
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by BoxOfRain 2mo ago
I'd be willing to bet that there's a lot more readable paper from thousands of years ago than there will be readable digital data from today in thousands of years. Digital information has to be actively preserved in every case, wh
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by BoxOfRain 2mo ago
I strongly disagree with this take, a book might remain readable thousands of years from now but very few if not zero of our digital data formats likely will. We shouldn't be so quick to throw away diversity in the way information whic
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by BoxOfRain 2mo ago
Surely no data is better than bad data? What's the point of a metric that doesn't measure anything tied to the objective reality of what it is that you're measuring? All I see tools like this doing is getting people to manipu
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by BoxOfRain 3mo ago
Another vote of confidence for CachyOS + KDE! This is my setup and literally the only issue I've had which presented a problem to me is that OpenRGB doesn't like my mobo at all, it's stuck in 'unicorn vomit' mode wh
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by BoxOfRain 3mo ago
Yeah people in the US who want protectionism for US models on grounds of IP rights are appalling hypocrites. What’s good for the goose is good for the gander!
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by BoxOfRain 3mo ago
One area that LLMs tend to do badly in still is sailing. I sail casually and I have friends who are instructors, basically all the LLMs we tried gave really unsafe advice for a particular manoeuvre. Claude was the notable exception getting
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by BoxOfRain 3mo ago
I miss the night looking like night, the ultra-harsh white LEDs used in street lights are trying to mimic daylight which is the last thing you want to do at night in my opinion. The old sodium lights might have had unnatural colour renderin

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