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dyno12345··on FTC announces "click-to-cancel" rule making it easier to cancel subscriptions
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
dyno12345··on Have you ever seen soldering this close? [video]
you have to have the right amount of solder on 100% of the pads for this to work correctly though
dyno12345··on PSA: If you're a fan of ATmega, try AVR Dx
they will generally refund you if you are unhappy
dyno12345··on Daily cannabis use overtakes drinking in US first
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.
dyno12345··on Daily cannabis use overtakes drinking in US first
The increase in traffic fatalities after legalization is also well documented, e.g. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S09553...
dyno12345··on Statement from Scarlett Johansson on the OpenAI "Sky" voice
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.
dyno12345··on Jeff Lawson buys The Onion
I think they raised a bunch of funding at one point and then ran out of it
dyno12345··on Baltimore's Key Bridge struck by cargo ship, collapses
yea if you watch the longer video they stopped traffic only a few seconds before the impact. incredibly lucky.
dyno12345··on Vision Pro teardown part 2: What’s the display resolution?
discussion of Part 1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39246664
dyno12345··on Report on the role of standardized test scores in undergraduate admissions [pdf]
re: grade inflation, they can statistically normalize the grades

fwiw GPA and SAT scores are highly correlated anyway

dyno12345··on Adobe gives up on web-design product to rival Figma after deal collapse
There is still a fiduciary duty even for private companies
dyno12345··on Antarctic fungi survive Martian conditions on the International Space Station
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.
dyno12345··on How to get coworkers to stop giving me ChatGPT-generated suggestions?
how can you tell if I'm being facetious or not?
dyno12345··on How to get coworkers to stop giving me ChatGPT-generated suggestions?
How do you know you yourself aren't an AI, being trained on synthetic data?
dyno12345··on Studies suggest that relying on will power to break habits is hopeless (2019)
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

dyno12345··on NY Times copyright suit wants OpenAI to delete all GPT instances
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W-shingling
dyno12345··on NY Times copyright suit wants OpenAI to delete all GPT instances
bing's chatbot does
dyno12345··on The dead children we must see
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.
dyno12345··on San Francisco Blows Housing Deadline, Prompting Standoff with State Regulators
In California, yes, cities have no independent right to exist, it's ultimately completely up to the state
dyno12345··on Generative AI for Beginners
I just want to inpaint but am finding that surprisingly difficult
dyno12345··on Norwegian ban on Meta behavioral advertising extended to entire EU
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.

dyno12345··on Minecraft Wiki has decided to leave Fandom
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.
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*temporarily
dyno12345··on Super-Earths in Need for Extremly Big Rockets (2018)
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
dyno12345··on Flexport is rescinding a bunch of signed offer letters
wasn't he chairman of the board before that?
dyno12345··on Therapy as a way of aligning with your subconscious
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.
dyno12345··on Therapy as a way of aligning with your subconscious
It might be because psychological science has long since given up on these concepts as unscientific.
dyno12345··on First new US nuclear reactor in decades enters commercial operation in Georgia
The US Navy seems to be able to do it
dyno12345··on Worldwide survey kills the myth of ‘Man the Hunter’
Yea that’s why I hesitated to add them
dyno12345··on Worldwide survey kills the myth of ‘Man the Hunter’
if they told you that men hunt 350 times more by volume (see first source) it would make their thesis sound irrelevant

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