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patricktloon Large language models are having their Stable Diffusion moment

That's amazing, any chance of running it on my trusty GTX 1060 6gb, or that's not enough VRAM?

patricktloon Show HN: AntennaPod Podcast Year Recap

Hi!

Even if I'm a little late to the end-of-year recap things, I decided to do a little recap of 2022 in AntennaPod.

You have to export your db from antennapod and input it into the website, but all data stays in the browser.

Feel free to look at the source code on GitHub and give feedback! Also adding new stats is pretty easy, just follow what I've done on the existing stats.

patricktloon Paul Otlet's Mundaneum anticipated the internet [video]

I love the Tim traveler, probably my favorite channel on YouTube!

patricktloon Corviale, a one-kilometer residential complex in Rome

Great video on it: https://youtu.be/vzGnyqpvwG8

patricktloon The wine tasting event: Distinguishing reds from whites (2014)

Yeah I'll try too out of curiosity, I could see how one could mistake a pinot for a cab or really any one grape for another, since winemaking/climate/soil can make a lot of difference. I would try that but I'm in Europe so I don't have easy access to American wines, but I think I know what tou mean!

patricktloon The wine tasting event: Distinguishing reds from whites (2014)

Most people prefer cheaper (in this case box wine) because it's often sweeter and it's supposed to be consumed right away.

I do agree with him on the '(most) wines nowadays are pretty good' but I disagree on the 'so there is no reason to pay more than $10 for a bottle of wine' part. Once you get to maybe 30-40$ it can plateau but you can get some amazing wines for 20.

Also the sample size is only of 8, and even if they are 'veterans', some couldn't discern a white from a red...

patricktloon Ask HN: Why's Clojure the top paying programming language?

Especially considering Nubank is Brazilian, and even though they pay well for Brazil I doubt it gets close to US standards

patricktloon There's an ARM Cortex-M4 with Bluetooth inside a Covid test kit

That's a great article, thanks for pointing me to it :)

patricktloon There's an ARM Cortex-M4 with Bluetooth inside a Covid test kit

Your simulations sound super interesting, I'd love to read more if you're willing to write about it!

patricktloon Ask HN: Where can I live off 1k USD per month?

Sure, the crime rate is high for Europe, but in context it's not that far away from California[0].

But I think for European countries France is on the expensive side, but it's true that you get healthcare, and you can make do with 1k

[0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/232564/robbery-rate-in-t...

patricktloon Rga: Ripgrep, but also search in PDFs, E-Books, Office documents, zip, tar.gz

Thanks! This is a godsend for someone like me who needs to search through many PDFs/docx documents to find information for work!