BoxOfRain

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by BoxOfRain 5d ago
To be honest I have showdead on and while I see the things you see, I also see a lot of blatant AI slop getting killed off too. I'm sure most people on here are at least somewhat attuned to Claude's 'voice' by now.
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by BoxOfRain 7d ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49213660 I made this post and it died on its arse initially, didn't even get an upvote. The second chance pool meant that it turned into a useful discussion about a pretty niche ele
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by BoxOfRain 7d ago
The fossil fuel industry managed to invent this unhappy process long before machine learning was a thing.
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by BoxOfRain 7d ago
> the US still has enough pull that it could probably get most western nations to march in line The US absolutely could coerce the rest of the West in the short term, but everything that's happened in the last decade calls the lon
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by BoxOfRain 8d ago
The cross-border system fed from the Elan Valley in the UK is like this, Wales is famously very rainy due to its hills and the Victorians exploited this by damming the Elan Valley and gravity-feeding the water from the Cambrian Mountains al
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by BoxOfRain 8d ago
This is a good institution, helped prompt a discussion which was very useful to me about designing for e-ink.
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by BoxOfRain 8d ago
I think it depends on the train journey personally. I'd never dream of striking up a conversation on the Tube or a busy commuter line; personally I'm the definition of 'not a morning person' so I've no social batter
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by BoxOfRain 13d ago
Saving this for later, I really love a handmade one-off guitar. I often wish I had the woodworking chops to build a guitar myself, I have a very specific idea of what I want from a guitar.
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by BoxOfRain 15d ago
That book title and my vague memory the same author had a hand in naming Eris makes me think they've encountered the Principia Discordia at one time or another.
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by BoxOfRain 15d ago
Admittedly it's been a long time since I watched it but isn't the introduction sequence straight-up apologia for the theories behind eugenics? The idea 'what if society got massively more stupid' isn't a bad one for
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by BoxOfRain 15d ago
I always felt that film was lazy in how it presents its premise. Maybe there's naunces I'm missing because I'm not American, but it made me feel a bit gross in the same way a lot of pop culture around 'chavs' in the
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by BoxOfRain 15d ago
Black and white TV left enough of a cultural impact that despite not living through that era, when I got a black and white e-ink smartphone recently I joked that if I were to watch the snooker on it I'd have to judge the green by its p
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by BoxOfRain 20d ago
It's a decreasing pool as well I'd say, the dev machine I built last summer would make less financial sense to me now for example.
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by BoxOfRain 21d ago
Yeah I think the most stressed I've ever been about punctuality was when I was dependent on a rural bus to get to work on time. I love rural Britain but if you can't drive for whatever reason, it's often not feasible to live
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by BoxOfRain 21d ago
> What if there won’t be a critical mass of fediverse users for it to matter enough and centralised social media platforms are all that we’ll ever get? I know this might not be a popular view but I'd be fairly content with a fediver
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by BoxOfRain 22d ago
To be fair, who actually has a mental model of what 20,779 square kilometres or 8,023 square miles (the area of Wales expressed as a number) actually looks like? Doesn't matter if you're using imperial or metric, it's not ver
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by BoxOfRain 22d ago
This isn't a uniquely American thing to be fair, in the UK it's not unusual to discuss area in terms of football pitches or for very large areas, Wales.
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by BoxOfRain 23d ago
Also events like Partygate in the UK really didn't help, people were already pretty done with the pandemic lifestyle after nearly two years of it on and off including fairly heavy-handed enforcement; the British government then lost al
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by BoxOfRain 23d ago
My MSI monitor does it, I don't object to it in principle. What I do object to is a tool, that I own, demanding this is done on its own schedule rather than mine in a way I can't always dismiss. There's no reason it shouldn&#
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by BoxOfRain 28d ago
I've come to realise that the only truly good recommendation engines for music are written in wetware; there's a lot to be said for DJ sets and independent radio.
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by BoxOfRain 1mo ago
Load bearing is a funny one because before LLMs the only time I heard it was in the phrase 'load-bearing bug'.
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by BoxOfRain 1mo ago
You can't have a very good discussion with someone about something they've made part of their identity in my view. I'm not an instinctive AI booster but nor am I going to bother engaging with people who believe a tool I use i
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by BoxOfRain 1mo ago
That's pretty much my one gripe with the general culture of the Fediverse, a lot of people have made opposition to AI in general part of their identities and it can be a little tedious to have discussions at times because of it.
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by BoxOfRain 1mo ago
Out of interest, would you have made this argument with respect to Big Tobacco back in the day? In my view surveillance-based behavioural recommendation engines belong very much in the same category.
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by BoxOfRain 1mo ago
I'm so glad I got myself off Instagram and Reddit, the longer I go without them the more I realise what massive cognitohazards both of them are if you spend too much time on them. Different mechanisms but both were much more of a net d
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by BoxOfRain 1mo 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 1mo 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 1mo 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 1mo 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 1mo 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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