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andresgottliebon Show HN: I convert videos to printed flipbooks for living

If you're into flipbooks, check-out these 6-in-one marvels. I got the Apollo 11 collection and love it: https://flipboku.com/

andresgottliebon Amazon to invest another $4B in Anthropic

You should check out Librechat. You can connect different models to it and, instead of paying for both subscriptions, just buy credits for each API.

andresgottliebon The "email is authentication" pattern

It doesn't need to be completely burned to be gone:

"No redemption will be made when (...) Fragments and remnants presented which represent 50% or less of a note are identifiable as United States currency but the method of destruction and supporting evidence do not satisfy the Treasury that the missing portion has been totally destroyed"

Not that unlikely, in my opinion.

andresgottliebon You are lucky, full moon tonight

I guess they probably meant moon position in orbit, in general

andresgottliebon Newly discovered deep-sea enzyme breaks down PET plastic

I've been using ChatGPT4 for this situtations, with excellent results. Check out this conversation about it (I used a PDF reader plugin, also): https://chat.openai.com/share/a682c5a7-f2c5-4849-a999-5a7218...

andresgottliebon Freud as Talmudist

I disagree. Judaism is not an ethnic group, it's many absolutely different and disjunct ethnic groups, that only have religion in common. A Jew from Yemen has nothing else in common with a Jew from Poland. Different language, different food,. different music, different physical resemblance, different interpretation of the Torah, etc.

I recommend reading The Invention of the Jewish People, by Shlomo Sand.

As a practical example. When my father (Ashkenazi) married my mother (Sephardic), my father's grandma was devastated, because he was marrying a non-jew.

andresgottliebon LAION, a high school teacher’s free image database, powers AI unicorns

"such biases"

andresgottliebon WebGPU Fundamentals

You oversaw the untrusted part, this is the only reason I prefer web over native really. If there was a way to run native apps with that level of isolation, I would prefer native.

andresgottliebon Nvidia Unveils CuLitho: A “Breakthrough in Computational Lithography”

Could you please give an example of a word where th is hispanized as z?

andresgottliebon Hetzner launches three new dedicated servers

You can definitely run a Cloud VM with GPU and pay by the second. I've used Google Cloud for this and it works very well

andresgottliebon Pixelmator Pro gets a magical, AI‑powered Deband feature

> but finding out if a game is Windows only is usually as easy as looking at the system requirements

It's exactly the same with Pixelmator Pro. You click on the "Tech Specs" menu item, scroll to (or search for) the "System Requirements" section, and get:

"Pixelmator Pro requires macOS 11 Big Sur or later and is fully optimized for Macs with Apple silicon."

andresgottliebon Apple blocks Coinbase Wallet

No. By blackmailing hardware vendors. If they shipped their computers with Netscape installed, they wouldn't let them license Windows.

andresgottliebon Stable Diffusion is a big deal

"a prisoner trapped inside of a giant lightbulb" using Midjourney --test

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/999426920376717513/10...

andresgottliebon Imagen: An AI system that creates photorealistic images from input text

Saul Goodman if he was a character in Twin Peaks:

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/999426920376717513/...

Generated with Midjourney Beta

andresgottliebon Results from first US trial of genetically modified mosquitoes

“First they came for the lettuce, but I said nothing because I was not a lettuce.”

A bit tongue in cheek, but there are ethical issues raised by eating living beings. Next fish, then chicken, then on to other “food”.

andresgottliebon The Framework Laptop is now shipping

Why is it that you can't have this with socketed RAM? Is there a physical limitation?

andresgottliebon JavaScript for Shell Scripting

Is everything sequential?

andresgottliebon Rosatom releases previously classified documentary video of Tsar Bomba nuke test

Narrationbox.com

andresgottliebon Dependency

Everything can happen, but your scenario has a very low probability, incentives do work

andresgottliebon Elite do-gooders 'fixing' the world are part of the problem: Giridharadas

Most definitely both. But we, flawed, humans tend to think in black vs white

andresgottliebon Ask HN: Films that made you see the world differently?

Exactly the same for me

andresgottliebon Microsoft is reportedly in talks to buy TikTok's US operations

Exactly. Unfortunately we humans have a tendency to believe that we can understand what's useful for the rest of the people better than themselves.

andresgottliebon For experts who study coronaviruses, a grim vindication

He's talking about cases in which preventative measures could be taken regarding those 200 predictions (eg. 200 asteroids with high probability of crashing into earth, maybe we could track them, identify one coming towards us, and blow it up)

Even though, they were 200, the fact that one of them was identified correctly, saved human civilization as a whole.

The point being, 1 in 200 is not a bad success ratio per se

andresgottliebon Tear Gas Is Way More Dangerous Than Police Let On - Especially During COVID

Exactly. Also, from the link you shared this quote seems relevant to the topic:

> Riot control agents, such as tear gas, are considered chemical weapons if used as a method of warfare. States can legitimately possess riot control agents and use them for domestic law enforcement purposes, but states that are members of the Chemical Weapons Convention must declare what type of riot agents they possess

andresgottliebon 1989 California Medfly Attack

Just last week I watched the 1993 movie Short Cuts, and learned about this event. Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon at it's best.

andresgottliebon SpaceX NASA returning human spaceflight to United States today (canceled)

As long as the meaning of "Cold War" stays poorly defined, there will be no point to this conversation

andresgottliebon US Secret Service: “Massive Fraud” Against State Unemployment Insurance Programs

Coming from a jewish background (Judaism also "bans interest/usury"), I advise you to take these rules with a grain of salt. In the case of Judaism, there were (sometimes still are) many tricks to the system, for example: you could lend with interest to non-jews, you could have and trade slaves, etc.

I'd assume Islam, being similar to Judaism, uses the same kind of tricks. For example, after a quick search, I found this:

"The common view of riba (usury) among classical jurists of Islamic law and economics during the Islamic Golden Age was that it is only riba and therefore unlawful to apply interest to money exnatura sua— exclusively gold and silver currencies—but that it is not riba and is therefore acceptable to apply interest to fiat money—currencies made up of other materials such as paper or base metals—to an extent."

Source: https://books.google.cl/books?id=1MKrCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA23&lpg=PA...

andresgottliebon Show HN: Configurable Route Planning – Avoid left turns, areas and more

I understood it as a private, personal, downvote. Meaning to tell the system to avoid that route as much as it's possible

andresgottliebon Calibre 4.0

It's huge. I'd say around 10x (I have a 3rd gen Kindle)

andresgottliebon The Impossible Burger and Beyond Meat aren't healthier

> No one eats fake meat to be healthier

I know people who do eat fake meat to be healthier