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there's a particular car rental company that I can't get off their list because it error 500's when I click the unsubscribe button
Re:Have you ever seen soldering THIS close? [video] on Wednesday September 18, 2024 @11:05PM (#41588083)
you have to have the right amount of solder on 100% of the pads for this to work correctly though
Re:PSA: If you're a fan of ATmega, try AVR Dx on Thursday June 06, 2024 @04:42PM (#40602157)
they will generally refund you if you are unhappy
Re:Daily cannabis use overtakes drinking in US first on Thursday May 23, 2024 @03:23PM (#40458839)
I can't smell a fart inside my apartment from someone on the other end of the parking lot, but apparently with weed smoke I can.
Re:Daily cannabis use overtakes drinking in US first on Thursday May 23, 2024 @02:59PM (#40458519)
The increase in traffic fatalities after legalization is also well documented, e.g. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S09553...
I'm not sure how much you currently legally own imitations of your own voice. There's a whole market for voice actors who can imitate particular famous voices.
Re:Jeff Lawson Buys The Onion on Thursday April 25, 2024 @09:09PM (#40164890)
I think they raised a bunch of funding at one point and then ran out of it
yea if you watch the longer video they stopped traffic only a few seconds before the impact. incredibly lucky.
Re:Vision Pro Teardown Part 2 on Wednesday February 07, 2024 @12:14PM (#39291170)
re: grade inflation, they can statistically normalize the grades

fwiw GPA and SAT scores are highly correlated anyway

There is still a fiduciary duty even for private companies
Re:Fungi survives outside international space station on Sunday January 28, 2024 @09:50PM (#39172188)
nitpick: fungi don't produce their own food; they need something to eat. what you need to get an ecosystem going is photosynthetic or chemotrophic organisms that produce their own food.
how can you tell if I'm being facetious or not?
How do you know you yourself aren't an AI, being trained on synthetic data?
This might be a stupid question, but what is "identity" in this context?

I ask because when this subject has come up I realize I don't seem to be able to think up theories about myself so easily

bing's chatbot does
Re:The Dead Children We Must See on Tuesday November 28, 2023 @08:08PM (#38454081)
it's not but there's an argument that it would reduce total suffering if you allow those who are obviously not potential combatants to leave the area, even though that's not fair to non-combatant men.
In California, yes, cities have no independent right to exist, it's ultimately completely up to the state
Re:Generative AI for Beginners on Friday November 24, 2023 @06:17PM (#38409450)
I just want to inpaint but am finding that surprisingly difficult
Facebook 100% does not sell "tracking data" to advertisers or "private intelligence companies".

I'd like to see an example of an ad platform that actually does this.

Re:Minecraft Wiki has forked from Fandom on Monday September 25, 2023 @12:14PM (#37646269)
no, and there's no tutorial or anything. it's weird to jump right into the game without prior experience. you sort of need a friend to explain it to you.
*temporarily
Re:Super-Earths in Need for Extremly Big Rockets (2018) on Tuesday September 12, 2023 @04:59PM (#37488236)
just think of the countless civilizations of blind space whales living in subsurface oceans for whom merely getting to the surface of their planet is as difficult as it is for us to get to space
Re:Flexport is rescinding a bunch of signed offer letters on Saturday September 09, 2023 @12:19AM (#37442247)
wasn't he chairman of the board before that?
Re:Therapy as a Way of Aligning with Your Subconscious on Friday August 11, 2023 @12:55PM (#37090895)
therapists have a responsibility to act in the best interests of clients who are not able to "manage" therapists well. this doesn't get discussed enough.
Re:Therapy as a Way of Aligning with Your Subconscious on Friday August 11, 2023 @07:15AM (#37087360)
It might be because psychological science has long since given up on these concepts as unscientific.
The US Navy seems to be able to do it
Yea that’s why I hesitated to add them
if they told you that men hunt 350 times more by volume (see first source) it would make their thesis sound irrelevant

I edited my comment to add sources

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