BoxOfRain

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by BoxOfRain 6mo ago
> but because AI surprised the copyright industry, it's now too late to enforce copyright like that. I think I've got whiplash from the way a lot of the tech scene has gone from 'IP troll outfits are malicious actors who m
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by BoxOfRain 6mo ago
I feel this won't necessarily be a popular take here but I really don't like things like Idiocracy. To me it comes across as deeply misanthropic, and kind of ignorant of what human nature actually looks like outside of our very sp
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by BoxOfRain 6mo ago
This sounds a tad misanthropic, if I had the choice to opt out of working full time making music is one of the primary things I'd spend my time doing. I like software but at the end of the day to me it's the most creative job I
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by BoxOfRain 7mo ago
In true British fashion the requirements for draught beer and cider are in pints, while wine is sold in millilitres.
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by BoxOfRain 7mo ago
That's fair, can't argue with that one. Personally I'd have us use what the Royal Navy used to serve its rum ration in, the half-gill. This is 1/8 of a British pint or 71 millilitres, and the rum would have been a minimu
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by BoxOfRain 7mo ago
When my mates at school had the aero glass effect on the new Windows, my ancient hand-me-down laptop wouldn't even try to run it. It could however run Compiz somewhat if it was persuaded very hard! That's basically the reason I le
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by BoxOfRain 7mo ago
Using an inequality symbol to highlight inequality is elegant, I wish they'd gone with that!
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by BoxOfRain 7mo ago
> On the other, Rao much more optimistic than Orwell, who declared doublespeak the lingua franca? If time travel were possible, one of the first things I'd do is introduce Orwell to the 'algospeak' of today. This would do
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by BoxOfRain 7mo ago
There's still one example of a working offshore radio ship, the Ross Revenge in southern England which you can go and visit. She's one of the former Radio Caroline ships, the studios are still fired up every month for a weekend of
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by BoxOfRain 7mo ago
My favourite OSX in terms of visual design was the Panther/Tiger era personally. Leopard looked good, but there was something really cheerful and friendly about Tiger. The iPods of those days were also really well thought-out in my opi
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by BoxOfRain 7mo ago
That's wild to think about, I've been playing the guitar longer than that yet his are heights I'm unlikely to reach. He was such an innovative guitarist.
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by BoxOfRain 8mo ago
I disagree, my problem with claims of machine consciousness is that they are effectively unfalsifiable without both an adequate theory of consciousness and a way of measuring it empirically. We don't have these, so in my opinion while
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by BoxOfRain 8mo ago
I wonder if more European pirates will appear on medium wave as commercial and state broadcasters abandon the band. Many countries have exited entirely already, meaning it's sometimes possible to hear these pirates at great distance. M
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by BoxOfRain 8mo ago
> The UK had what I think was a really nice set up, although it's now not nearly as palatable. My student loan had an interest rate tied to inflation, and repayment was a fixed amount of my income above a limit, collected via the sa
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by BoxOfRain 8mo ago
I miss the low-pressure sodium street lights that used to be ubiquitous in Britain. The light was virtually monochromatic, which created a very specific aesthetic at night. Modern white LEDs feel more like a bad approximation of day rather
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by BoxOfRain 8mo ago
I think we in the West underestimate just how severe the '90s were in Russia. You can observe the fall of the USSR by looking at a graph of average life expectancy in Russia, the scale of state failure was really enormous.
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by BoxOfRain 8mo ago
One of my gripes with youtube at the moment is that they break my adblock filters to remove shorts more often than they break the filters stopping the actual ads.
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by BoxOfRain 8mo ago
> Genuine use cases for multiuser desktop Linux are exceedingly rare. (Are university computer labs with desktop computers still a thing? Or is it just Wi-Fi and BYOD now?) When I was a student in 2015, we had several computer labs. One
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by BoxOfRain 8mo ago
Ironically I built a Linux box for mainly local models with some RGBs because I wanted tasteful accent lights to match the room, but my motherboard isn't supported by OpenRGB so they're stuck on either nothing or 'unicorn vom
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by BoxOfRain 8mo ago
Also if you want 'Arch with sensible defaults' CachyOS is basically that, people think of it as a 'gaming distro' but that's not an accurate characterisation. I use it as a daily driver on my personal machine mostly
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by BoxOfRain 9mo ago
A better example is perhaps the Charge of the Light Brigade, our most famous war poem is about an cavalry charge in the wrong direction.
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by BoxOfRain 9mo ago
Russia's former Lake Karachay was an impressively polluted location, the early Soviet reactors were cooled with an open loop where highly contaminated water was discharged directly into the lake. The lake eventually became thoroughly s
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by BoxOfRain 9mo ago
> nuclear-weapon-level-dangerous chatbots I feel this framing in general says more about our attitudes to nuclear weapons than it does about chatbots. The 'Peace Dividend' era which is rapidly drawing to a close has made people
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by BoxOfRain 9mo ago
I think the following things can both be true at the same time: * LLMs are a useful tool in a variety of circumstances. * Sam Altman is personally incentivised to spout a great deal of hyped-up rubbish about both what LLMs are capable of, a
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by BoxOfRain 9mo ago
> Ireland is just a copy of the UK That's certainly a geopolitically contentious take if I've ever seen one.
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by BoxOfRain 9mo ago
I quite like IndexTTS2 personally, it does voice cloning and also lets you modulate emotion manually through emotion vectors which I've found quite a powerful tool. It's not necessarily something everyone needs, but it's real
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by BoxOfRain 9mo ago
That's not what I mean, I don't like corpo-speak either. I mean just treating people like they're human beings, neither with affected shortness nor affected warmth. I really don't like the common notion that you have to
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by BoxOfRain 9mo ago
Personally I'm not a fan of terse writing; if something's worth saying at all it's worth using suitably expressive language to describe it, and being short and cold with people isn't a good form of interpersonal communic
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by BoxOfRain 9mo ago
Nah I disagree, tool calling isn't that difficult. I've got my own Cats Effect based model orchestration project I'm working on, and while it's not 100% yet I can do web browse, web search, memory search (this one is coo
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by BoxOfRain 9mo ago
Yeah I do think if your trust in state institutions is gone for whatever reason (such as living in a dictatorship), it'd be absolute madness to carry around an electronic snitch with you. I'm not sure what I would rely on in those

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