https://github.com/marcomattes/epaper-components/tree/main

The Bigme is a pretty high quality eink display, but some core properties of eink are present here so I’ll offer some generic guidance:

The contrast on any epaper display is lower than on a modern lcd/oled display. So you want to avoid or modify ui systems that try to diminish contrast for stylistic reasons. Or more explicitly: maximize the contrast wherever legibility matters. It is pretty common in pretty much every modern design system for web/mobile to diminish contrast so you may just need to go in and tweak things yourself.

Second: you cannot rely on color as an accent. A lot of UI does this (submit buttons). Defining a consistent accent pattern is necessary to replace patterns that rely on color. This can be outlines/borders or inversions.

Stylistically I think that sharper content looks better on eink than smoother content, but on a 300 dpi display with 16 grays this is less of a hard point.

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“Stochastic parrot got picked up and interpreted by other people as a minimization or an insult. It was not meant that way. Other people might be using it that way but that’s not how I intended it”.

Yeah that’s because it was chosen to be an insulting phrase.. Parroting is only ever used as a pejorative phrase. But sure, everyone else mindlessly parroting this line is the problem here.

This paper was always lousy, but it has really not aged well. We are living in a world when where an LLM has solved an Erdos problem. In a world where LLMs produce novel results that rival human thinking any conceptual reduction of an LLM is going to start inviting some unpleasant comparisons with human thinking.

All it does is standardize "sell by" labels to be more transparent. The extent of the ban is the explicit phrasing "Sell By" which is itself confusing since the manufacturer has some estimated consumption interval that is tacked onto their actual expiration date. Sell By gives the customer has no idea how much padding they are adding to their estimate and when the thing actually goes bad.

All this law really does is it standardizes the labels manufacturers can use to "BEST if Used by" for quality concerns or "USE by" for safety concerns. A lot of manufacturers already do this, so it is a pretty minimal law There are probably more pressing issues in Sacramento, but a small improvement is always welcome.