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minicozon Ask HN: Why is Pave legal?

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.

minicozon 10% of Cubans left Cuba between 2022 and 2023

damn west coast elites living in fantasyland.

minicozon Show HN: CompressX, my FFmpeg wrapper for macOS

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.

minicozon MIT MicroMasters

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.

minicozon Cloudflare lays off new hires

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.

minicozon Psytrance Guide

They aren't under the psytrance tree. The author does include chillout.

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

minicozon In the quantum realm, not even time flows as you might expect

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.

minicozon Texas’ power grid crumples under the cold

yup i have been freezing my a.. off here in htown

minicozon A College Degree Is No Guarantee of a Good Life

How to get direct clients?

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

minicozon A College Degree Is No Guarantee of a Good Life

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.

minicozon A College Degree Is No Guarantee of a Good Life

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.