Interesting that the port side is unfinished; I didn’t realize that we never saw it!

Neat! Bug report: on my iPhone when I quickly double-tap the backspace button it zooms on that element, which is pretty distracting.

For the developer - adding the following to the viewport meta property stops the double-tap zoom on mobile (note: stops all zooming on mobile):

  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=1.0, user-scalable=0" />

Please don't do this. Web-sites that restrict scaling are terrible for accessibility.

Almost unusably so, as I’m trying new letter rapidly.

Fixed!

Hmm maybe not, this is still happening for me.

That place was casual but not cheap; ~$30 for a lobster roll. It’s out of business now.

Oh. Seems like the owner got jail time for tax fraud. Could have explained the price point ...

(Cheap, as in cheap compared to lobsters in Europe).

I spent some time with my kid trying to get ChatGPT 4 to write bedtime stories. We found that it kept devolving into the pattern of a generic but acceptable setup followed by something like "and then the heroes solved a variety of challenges, learning together and having fun all the way" that completely skips the meat of the story. We also noticed that it was difficult to goad the AI into adding any quotations; the characters rarely _say_ anything.

We only tried StoryBee once but unfortunately got a very similar result; judge for yourself: https://storybee.app/story/the-purple-mystery-654fbfe43da40f....

We did have fun with ChatGPT getting ideas for specific plot turns and generating illustrations (e.g. https://photos.app.goo.gl/coonT1bT7BLRqXeu8).

Most people can't write a good story from start to finish with no planning, and we have an advantage in that kind of thinking compared to AI. Have you tried starting by having it generate a plot, then once that's finished, expand from there?

Anecdotally, I just asked Bing and it made a quite long story with multiple arcs, action, dialogue, and an ending allegory. Might have just been lucky, really.

We have tried to resolve exactly this problem of "journey skipping". Could you please consider taking a look at our attempt? (it's free), and I'm curious regarding your feedback: https://littlestory.io/en

I like the overall structure of the story and the tilt effect on the logo.

> Now only if I could find the name of this historian.

Is it Hieronymus Wolf? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hieronymus_Wolf

Yes it was!

Thank you! This version is much better than that Instagram edit.

The displays can show black, white and red. He picked a good image for that palette. Still, the dithering was surprisingly effective.

Sounds like the early two color process in Hollywood… they got red (for skin tones) and a sort of teal blue green that could sorta do plants and sorta do sky, but wasn’t real convincing at either.

They should have used orange and blue https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OrangeBlueContra...

Dithering is amazing. I built a display to show my calendar:

https://www.stavros.io/posts/making-the-timeframe/

When testing it out, I tried to show a grayscale image, because the display supports four tones, but it came out horrible. Then I displayed a dithered two-tone image (black and white) and it was much, much better:

https://www.stavros.io/posts/making-the-timeframe/dithered.j...

I wonder if there are any arbitrary-palette dithering algorithms that I could try, it would be great to be able to use the other two tones and still dither.

If this really needs to happen then I like .GetAwaiter().GetResult() instead of .Result to get the same exception behavior as await rather than the wrapped AggregateException that .Result throws. This is especially helpful if DoSomethingAsync sometimes throws synchronously rather than returning a task.

I’m not the parent but I built something similar in the Fractal Node 304 which supports six 2.5” drives. Mine’s been going strong for 7 years now.

https://www.fractal-design.com/products/cases/node/node-304

That's exactly the one I have.

Thanks.

One thing that frustrates me is that as far as I'm aware none of the delivery apps provide an option for me to tip the restaurant. Especially in these times I want to give some extra support to the workers preparing my meal. The lack of that option is one of the main reasons I usually pick up myself; if any of the delivery apps added the feature I would immediately switch to it!

UberEats definitely had options to tip restaurants earlier this year during the early days of lockdown. Sadly the option seems to have been removed since.

Yes, I definitely wish they would add this back permanently and also let me choose the tip rather than the small fixed tip they had before.

But then again, maybe this would create an incentive for delivery services to raise costs for restaurants?

A few restaurants on caviar offered a $10 or $20 item on their menu that goes directly to their workers, which I thought was nice. Would be cool to see that productized.