jslpc's comments

I'd consider myself more spiritual rather than religious, but do pray to a god of my understanding. Just wanted to say thanks for sharing this, I haven't actually read the whole Bible but, as the other reply states, I'm sure there are so many little nuggets like this in there that many ignore.

Anyone get the slideshow before it was taken down? Link no longer works.

I’m assuming it could easily determine whether something is okay to suggest or not.

Dealing with a second degree burn is objectively done a specific way. Advising someone that they are making a good decision by abruptly stopping prescribed medications without doctor supervision can potential lead to death.

For instance, I’m on a few medications, one of which is for epileptic seizures. If I phrase my prompt with confidence regarding my decision to abruptly stop taking it, ChatGPT currently pats me on the back for being courageous, etc. In reality, my chances of having a seizure have increased exponentially.

I guess what I’m getting at is that I agree with you, it should be able to give hypothetical suggestions and obvious first aid advice, but congratulating or outright suggesting the user to quit meds can lead to actual, real deaths.

This is neat.

While only tangentially related, I dove into a rabbit hole not long ago trying to find the best ffmpeg GUI (that doesn't require Wine or a VM to run on macOS) and found some good stuff. Handbrake [1] is great and uses ffmpeg as part of its backend, but it gets somewhat limited when you start requiring more advanced things like vf chains, scripting/automation, obscure/legacy codec support, or specific hardware acceleration needs. I wanted to find something that gets (close to) as densely packed with features as ffmpeg from the command line, and here's what I found. I'm not going to list all their features and pros/cons, but just let others know about some of these as a starting point.

I'm not affiliated with any of these programs (Handbrake and ffmpeg included) in any way, I just want to point others in the right direction if they come across this comment.

StaxRip [2] - One of the most popular and complete options. Seems like one of the the go-tos on the VideoHelp [3] forums for video editing GUIs. Supports AviSynth+ and VapourSynth scripts among other advanced features.

clever FFmpeg-GUI [4] - Another VideoHelp go-to. I'm not 100% sure if this supports AviSynth/VapourSynth, but it's pretty damn feature-complete as far as ffmpeg goes.

Shutter Encoder [5] - Probably has the most intuitive UI of the bunch, it feels much closer to a Premiere Pro/Davinci Resolve type program rather than an ffmpeg wrapper, albeit those applications are much more robust for different tasks.

Hybrid [6] - My favorite out of these, purely because it was easy enough to get running on macOS and didn't sacrifice many ffmpeg features. Also supports AviSynth/VapourSynth.

Honestly, probably didn't even need to comment this; I wish I had more knowledge about these to share in-depth. If you're serious about video encoding, your best bet is to start learning how to use ffmpeg from the command line anyways, then maybe add AviSynth+/VapourSynth into the mix as you see fit, though those are a good deal more advanced than even ffmpeg. Just my two cents.

[1] https://handbrake.fr/

[2] https://github.com/staxrip/staxrip

[3] https://www.videohelp.com/software/sections/video-encoders-h...

[4] https://www.videohelp.com/software/clever-FFmpeg-GUI

[5] https://www.shutterencoder.com/

[6] https://www.videohelp.com/software/Hybrid

Since we're all sharing our corners of the web, I guess I'll link mine as well.

I only have 6 posts over 4 years, mostly due to me thinking my ideas aren't "original" enough to warrant lengthy write-ups, but I know that's not exactly true.

Anyway, here's mine:

https://jakesulpice.com/

I love your site! I especially like the minimal design. I've got my own personal blog of sorts for medium-to-long form posts but have been wanting to implement a way to have smaller notes like this on the same website.

At the moment, my site only has a small handful of posts from the past four years (6 to be exact), but that's mostly due to thinking my thoughts aren't "original" enough to warrant regular-length posts/articles, which I know probably isn't exactly true.

Yours is really encouraging me to start using mine more often regardless of word count or page length. Thank you for sharing!

Honestly, I live in Los Angeles and feel like I never even see these California-specific opt-out banners. I typically reject all but essential cookies on every website that prompts me, but never see anything related to the CCPA, which is a shame because I really do want to utilize it.

I agree with the general sentiment of the post, but I gravitate more towards e-ink displays, which has it's tradeoffs. Lugging around my Kindle Oasis is a chore, so I'll only bring it with me when I really plan on reading.

That being said, I like the idea of just using your phone. I scroll through Twitter, HN, Reddit, etc. a good chunk of the day anyways, might as well spend that time reading something worthwhile instead.

I also want to point out that I really like the look and feel of this website. I adore minimalist design for blogs, and my own website is similarly minimal but not quite the same. The author also touches on some subjects I find particularly interesting; investing, drugs, school (or lack thereof), etc.

Not the person you replied to, but I'd also be interested if you have any! I just sent you a message on Twitter to the link in your HN profile because I'm not sure how to private message here, I apologize if that's too forward!

Same with me, signed up for the waitlist months ago. Even asked around about buying an invite code but that just seemed a bit sketchy for me, it's so easy to get scammed doing that.

I'd love an invite eventually so I could try it out and really form an opinion on the whole Threads vs Bluesky vs Twitter drama, but I fear it's going to take much longer and I'll lose interest entirely. Which is a shame because I actually really like Twitter and have actively used it for 10+ years, but man Elon is making it really easy for me to jump ship somewhere.

I'd also love to have a list of some of these apps, just commenting to come back to this in case someone provides one.

Same here, last time I did any form of origami was when I was a child, yet this article was fascinating to read from start to finish. It’s beautiful seeing how intricate some seemingly “simpler” (for lack of a better word) hobbies really are when you get into the details of it all.

Same thing here, been using it for maybe 2 years now and I adore it.

This past week I made/forked something similar for macOS only.

There was a GUI for youtube-dl I liked but never could get to work called Get-It (https://github.com/Kevin-De-Koninck/Get-It), and with many people switching to the actively-maintained fork yt-dlp, I decided to try using that as a base for making a clone with the latter as a backend.

I don't know Swift at all but thought I'd try it out to see if I could, and it seems to work for the most part on my end. I also cleaned up random errors I found in the code (like a rogue youtube link to a Grand Theft Auto 5 video?) and made things a bit more consistent, or at least I'd like to think so. Changed the UI and added a toggle to block sponsorships from videos as well, but not totally sure if that works all that well yet.

I'd love if anyone would try it out and report any issues they run into, it's been fun trying to fix it up!

https://github.com/jslpc/Swift-DL

I tried switching to Capture One as well, and enjoyed using it for the most part, but I couldn't fully switch for one primary reason.

I'm still fairly new to photography and use a few preset packs that I've paid for as a base before making modifications to them to my liking. I downloaded a program that converts Lightroom presets to LUTs, and those worked decently, but they were visibly inferior due to the fact that the converter cannot handle camera/lens profiles.

I ended up just going back to Lightroom Classic for now, but hopefully once I progress enough to make my own edits from scratch I'll be able to switch back to Capture One.

Piggybacking off of this to come back to it later. I'm also looking for some side project to start that'll encourage me to learn more about programming while I'm still in school for CS.

I've launched some hobby projects online in the past but none of which are monetized in any way, and almost all of them ended up costing money to run or still continue to do so. I'd love to build something for practice (to start out), with the intent of it eventually being good enough of a service for others to use too. I'm just blank on ideas at the moment.