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

Keep trying! Their server is just a little slow, and can only handle about 1 request per second, gets flooded "sometimes," understandable

you have to have the right amount of solder on 100% of the pads for this to work correctly though

Do you? I'd imagine you can have too little on some of the pads, such that the melted material doesn't make contact.

As long as others pads have enough they'd pull the BGA into place, and at that point those pads would make contact and complete the solder.

they will generally refund you if you are unhappy

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.

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.

Should have renamed it

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sosumi

Or

https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/9n44b6/til_t...

When those imitations are commercialized, there is a disclaimer that a celebrity voice is being impersonated, and parody is a legally protected form of speech. OpenAI is not parodying anything, and failed even the low bar of having a disclaimer.

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.

discussion of Part 1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39246664

re: grade inflation, they can statistically normalize the grades

fwiw GPA and SAT scores are highly correlated anyway

Not exactly, it's tough because every high school needs a different normalization, and it may drift from cohort to cohort. Most universities only ever see a handful of students from any given HS, so it's really tough to untangle the big spike of 5.0 students. Usually the results are weakly predictive of academic success, if the correlation even exists at all. External agencies like the CollegeBoard offer data as a service type solutions for this, but they're (A) low quality, (B) expensive, and (C) have lots of weird privacy concerns because it's data about minors.

People who take the SAT are self-selecting. An awful lot of kids don't take it, and a lot of schools don't require it. So the sort of kid who takes it will also be the sort of kid who gets good grades.