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New comment by nomand in "The Xteink X4 E-Ink Reader"

nomand — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 05:24:33 +0000

A single-function book is your window to the world. A phone is the world's window to you.

New comment by nomand in "The real cost of owning a home"

nomand — Wed, 27 May 2026 02:09:15 +0000

You don't even take care of your car well and you think you know what it takes to take care of a building? Anyway, you should buy a boat.

New comment by nomand in "How a hawk learned to use traffic signals to hunt more successfully"

nomand — Wed, 28 May 2025 00:35:53 +0000

a bird's eye view :)

New comment by nomand in "OpenPlotter"

nomand — Tue, 12 Mar 2024 10:18:50 +0000

You're right. #notallwebstandards

New comment by nomand in "OpenPlotter"

nomand — Tue, 12 Mar 2024 05:09:59 +0000

I'm pretty skeptical of propitiatory protocols too. And a lot of pro marine stuff is starting to go wireless which is scary to think about.

New comment by nomand in "OpenPlotter"

nomand — Tue, 12 Mar 2024 05:07:59 +0000

Thanks for sharing that! Very interesting. There is even less margin for error in air compared to at sea. At least you can still float if the power goes out and at that point a sewing machine is all you need for most critical problems past that point.

New comment by nomand in "OpenPlotter"

nomand — Tue, 12 Mar 2024 05:05:07 +0000

Your labeling is only a reflection of the shape of the lens you have on the world. I'm not interested in feeding that.

New comment by nomand in "OpenPlotter"

nomand — Tue, 12 Mar 2024 05:03:04 +0000

If anything needs to run a server to communicate with anything else, especially if wireless is involved (which often is the case with more modern forms of radar, gps etc. because of ease of wiring and installation) is a recipe for disaster if you're relying on interfacing with existing instruments for navigation.

Simply firing up cli for troubleshooting and debugging of any kind should not be "expected behavior" at sea.

New comment by nomand in "OpenPlotter"

nomand — Tue, 12 Mar 2024 01:45:05 +0000

As a "sailor in tech", "web standards" do not belong anywhere near an ocean going vessel.

New comment by nomand in "Beating GPT-4 on HumanEval with a fine-tuned CodeLlama-34B"

nomand — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 09:30:17 +0000

Ollama for mac + https://continue.dev/. Otherwise c.d has hooks for other types of installs.

New comment by nomand in "Guide to running Llama 2 locally"

nomand — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 21:24:02 +0000

My benchmark is having a peer programming session spanning days and dozens of queries with ChatGPT where we co-created a custom static site generator that works really well for my requirements. It was able to hold context for a while and not "forget" what code it provided me dozens of messages earlier, it was able to "remember" corrections and refactors that I gave it and overall was incredibly useful for working out things like recurrence for folder hierarchies and building data trees. This kind and similar use-cases where memory is important, when the model is used as a genuine assistant.

New comment by nomand in "Guide to running Llama 2 locally"

nomand — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 20:44:40 +0000

Does what you're saying mean you can only ask questions and get answers in a single step, and that having a long discussion where refinement of output is arrived at through conversation isn't possible?

New comment by nomand in "Guide to running Llama 2 locally"

nomand — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 20:31:13 +0000

Is it possible for such local install to retain conversation history so if for example you're working on a project and use it as your assistance across many days that you can continue conversations and for the model to keep track of what you and it already know?

New comment by nomand in "Comparing Adobe Firefly, Dalle-2, and OpenJourney"

nomand — Tue, 20 Jun 2023 19:54:42 +0000

Is there a coherent resource (not a scattered 'just google it' series of guides from all over the place) that encapsulates some of the concepts and workflows you're describing? What would be the best learning site/resource for arriving at understanding how to integrate and manipulate SD with precision like that? Thanks

New comment by nomand in "Ask HN: What game do you wish existed?"

nomand — Wed, 25 May 2022 20:41:59 +0000

You're describing Arietty by Ghibli, even "Borrower" is the English translation for the little beings :)

New comment by nomand in "Beginner’s guide to mechanical keyboards"

nomand — Fri, 30 Apr 2021 08:08:40 +0000

The thing you touch and interact with every day, better be beautiful and bring you joy, whether through aesthetics, tactile feel, personalized function, or whatever else, hencewhy "custom" is the keyword here. Nothing to do with quality of your typing or the work. You don't opt out for the cheapest possible decor because it "does the job", your environment affects the way you feel and this is just one ways to express one's own.

New comment by nomand in "2021 will demand new kinds of video conferencing"

nomand — Tue, 12 Jan 2021 23:41:19 +0000

My team have been developing Remotely (https://meetings.remotelyhq.com/) with this very thing in mind - customizable avatars, voice-driven animation and expressions, animated emoticons, cinematic rooms, interactibles. It's still very early stages, but the main observation is that the scope of problems people are having with communication is too large. Some people want to feel less anxious in meetings, some want accountability, some productivity, some want "fun" and customize stuff, others want video, screensharing etc. It's hard to pinpoint "the problem" that's tangible and solvable outside of the base must-have features. "feeling more like part of the team while working remotely" is not an easy problem to tackle.