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Re:Ask HN: Why Is Pave Legal? on Thursday September 12, 2024 @12:25PM (#41522587)
unfreeze it just for that report. You can ask the bank, credit card, mortgage loaner which credit bureau they use and then unfreeze your account for 2 weeks.
Re:10% of Cubans have left Cuba in the last year on Saturday July 20, 2024 @07:26PM (#41021020)
JD Vance's wife is Indian and her father is from India. He came her legally and won a green card.

Vance is opposed to illegal immigration and wants to deport all the illegals that Biden has let in to the country. What dont Democrats understand by this

Re:10% of Cubans have left Cuba in the last year on Saturday July 20, 2024 @07:25PM (#41021006)
damn west coast elites living in fantasyland.
Great looking product,

if anyone wants to do the same stuff for free on windows (except image resizing)

I use FFMPEGBatchAVConverter

https://ffmpeg-batch.sourceforge.io/

Batch FFMPEG conversion (I usually go from h264 to HEVC with my NVIDIA GPU 3060Ti)

> ffmpeg -i file.mp4 -c:v hevc_nvenc -rc vbr -cq 24 -qmin 24 -qmax 24 -profile:v main10 -pix_fmt p010le -b:v 0K -c:a aac -map 0

and LosslessCut

https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut for ffmpeg cutting and splicing p0rn scenes.

Re:MIT MicroMasters on Monday January 15, 2024 @06:43PM (#39007591)
Isn't this the point of these institutions?

The schools prestige is what they sell since you can learn the material online for free or from a state university.

You are essentially buying into the network and using the name as a status symbol.

Re:Cloudflare lays off new hires on Thursday January 11, 2024 @09:22PM (#38962798)
I'm a millennial and I'm not naive enough to believe a company has my best interest at heart.

This is year 2 of rough layoffs in tech. anyone that didn't see January coming as layoff month is dumb.

Re:Psytrance Guide on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @01:56AM (#37925274)
They aren't under the psytrance tree. The author does include chillout.

The artists you listed are more electronic, so down tempo, shoegaze, electronic.

Re:In the quantum realm, not even time flows as you might expect on Saturday November 27, 2021 @07:32PM (#29365043)
This sounds like a purely mathematical output that hasnt been observed yet. Interesting, but like string theory, its pretty much math manipulation until you get what you want.
Re:Texas’ power grid crumples under the cold on Monday February 15, 2021 @05:55PM (#26148709)
yup i have been freezing my a.. off here in htown
Re:A College Degree Is No Guarantee of a Good Life on Friday July 31, 2020 @11:32AM (#24009651)
How to get direct clients?

Id love to go C2C but finding clients seems really hard.

Re:A College Degree Is No Guarantee of a Good Life on Friday July 31, 2020 @11:30AM (#24009624)
Now there are online degrees from good brick-and-mortar schools that do not mention they are online.

Georgia Techs OMSA, OMSCS, UT Austin Masters in DS, CS online.

Re:A College Degree Is No Guarantee of a Good Life on Friday July 31, 2020 @11:28AM (#24009598)
True, I believe it does lead to a well rounded individual to study the arts and humanities, but with the cost of a college degree, the ROI on those courses ($900 per course) is not worth the investment.

applied STEM will pay off for the investment. I still take college courses online after my Masters in CS. I really enjoy learning about humanities and arts at a cheaper CC during my free time.