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Q&A Barring Undo — without reselecting and REcoloring the object — how can I UNcolor these blue tresses?

I can't use Undo, because I noticed these 2 tresses of blue hair LONG AFTER I used the Object Selection Tool. How can I restore the original hair color, without restarting from scratch? Do not ask...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Este‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Este‭

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Q&A Why do you need virtual machines in these examples?

I added the numbering. It's a virtual machine. Basically, it's one or more computers pretending to be one or more computers. Believe it or not, this is incredibly useful. Say you have som...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by TextKit‭  ·  edited 4y ago by Alexei‭

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Q&A How to stop all automatic Windows Update restarts on a Windows 10 Pro machine?

Others have posted some workarounds that directly answer your question, but my own answer to the implied deeper question ("how do I prevent my [currently Windows 10] machine from rebooting during a...

posted 4y ago by Chris Henry‭

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Q&A How can I see the email of a participant in an MS Teams meeting on iPad during the meeting?

How can I see the email of a participant in an MS Teams meeting on iPad during the meeting? I don't see where to find it: Crossposts: https://apple.stackexchange.com/q/479373/20338 https:...

0 answers  ·  posted 2mo ago by Franck Dernoncourt‭  ·  edited 2mo ago by Franck Dernoncourt‭

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Q&A When running a query with ChatGPT with search enabled, can I restrict the search to only certain domain(s)?

When running a query with ChatGPT with search enabled, can I restrict the search to only certain domain(s)? For example, only search https://genai.stackexchange.com/ Crossposts: https://qr.a...

1 answer  ·  posted 2mo ago by Franck Dernoncourt‭  ·  last activity 2mo ago by Andreas demands justice for humanity‭

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Q&A How do Gemini Gems compare against custom GPTs?

What are the main differences, if any, between Gemini Gems compare against custom GPTs? Or are they basically the same feature? Crossposts: https://redd.it/1jrta7h https://redd.it/1jrtafv h...

0 answers  ·  posted 2mo ago by Franck Dernoncourt‭  ·  edited 2mo ago by Franck Dernoncourt‭

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Q&A Is there any tool to fix cases in references (LaTeX + BibTeX)?

One common formatting issue in reference lists is that characters that should remain capitalized are often not. E.g., Chatgpt -> ChatGPT. Is there a tool that can fix this? I use LaTeX and BibTe...

1 answer  ·  posted 29d ago by Franck Dernoncourt‭  ·  last activity 28d ago by Franck Dernoncourt‭

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Q&A Can't run a Python file in PyCharm: why? [closed]

I can't run a Python file in PyCharm: why? The run icon is greyed out: I went to Run → Edit Configurations… to make sure the correct Python interpreter is selected. Debug, coverage, and profile...

1 answer  ·  posted 2mo ago by Franck Dernoncourt‭  ·  closed 2mo ago by samcarter‭

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Q&A What does the warning "When you create this deployment, the resource change you've made will persist throughout Azure AI Foundry." indicate?

I am deploying a GPT instance in Azure and see: When you create this deployment, the resource change you've made will persist throughout Azure AI Foundry. What does the warning "When you cr...

0 answers  ·  posted 2mo ago by Franck Dernoncourt‭  ·  edited 2mo ago by Franck Dernoncourt‭

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Q&A No regions are available for Gemini Pro 2.5. Why?

When I go to https://console.cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/studio/multimodal?model=gemini-2.5-pro-preview-03-25&invt=[redacted]&project=[project-name], no regions are available for Gemini Pro...

0 answers  ·  posted 2mo ago by Franck Dernoncourt‭

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Q&A Is a fanless PC good? [closed]

I would like to buy a fanless PC. Is a fanless PC good?

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by mccoy.rameer‭  ·  closed 2y ago by Canina‭

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Q&A Should I now delete backup files already stored on my SSD C Drive? Should I use free space on SSD C Drive?

On both my desktop and laptop, my Windows 11 C drives are on a 500 GB SSD. My D drives are on a 1 TB HDD. Desktop A Microsoft Support Engineer noticed that I backed up 300 GB of family videos on ...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by TextKit‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Lundin‭

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Q&A Why did Windows automatically open 1 Word document, but not 2 others, in the same folder?

Call the 3 Word documents in the same folder 1.docx, 2.docx, 3.docx. I followed Allen Wyatt's instructions for "Opening a Word Document when Starting the Computer" that is encapsulated by Microsoft...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by TextKit‭

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Q&A Does posting the same content on multiple sites hurt their rankings in search engines?

Answer from davidgo on SE (CC BY-SA 4.0): No. Google may choose a preferred version which it will consider canonical and this will affect the page its on on the duplicate site but not the site o...

posted 26d ago by Franck Dernoncourt‭

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Q&A Is there any point in using GPT o1 now that o3 is available and cheaper?

I see on https://platform.openai.com/docs/pricing that o3 cheaper than o1, and on https://huggingface.co/spaces/lmarena-ai/chatbot-arena-leaderboard that o3 stronger than o1 (1418 vs. 1350 elo). I...

0 answers  ·  posted 1mo ago by Franck Dernoncourt‭

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Q&A Error "unsupported_value: Unsupported value: 'stream' does not support true with this model. " when using GPT o1 in Azure playground: why and fix how?

I use GPT o1 in Azure playground. Typically it works fine: But I got a the following error on a long prompt about code editing: unsupported_value: Unsupported value: 'stream' does not support...

0 answers  ·  posted 2mo ago by Franck Dernoncourt‭  ·  edited 2mo ago by Franck Dernoncourt‭

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Q&A How was the claim "Gemini 2.0 Flash achieves 24x higher intelligence per dollar than anyone in the market" determined?

I saw on https://youtu.be/2OpHbyN4vEM?t=219: Gemini 2.0 Flash achieves 24x higher intelligence per dollar than anyone in the market How did Google get that x24 number? The given source is ...

0 answers  ·  posted 2mo ago by Franck Dernoncourt‭  ·  edited 2mo ago by Franck Dernoncourt‭

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Q&A A term that describes frontend redirects

We can talk about backend redirects when we redirect a user from example.com/1.html to example.com/2.html (without a link); the server is asked to do it by some backend-language such as PHP or by J...

2 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by deleted user  ·  last activity 4y ago by Canina‭

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Meta Unable to gave an upvote to Q or A

You were probably not logged in. You can sometimes get logged out when something changes on your machine, you get to the site from a different machine, etc. The view is very similar, and often it...

posted 3y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Q&A What free apps let me pause, while I'm recording a video on an iPhone? [closed]

Are there any free video recording apps for the iPhone which have a pause function? I want to be able to pause and resume my recording, so that the footage before and after the pause becomes part ...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by 8500 Ward‭  ·  edited 9mo ago by samcarter‭

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Q&A Why can reversing the order of the same words 1. lower the total character count, and 2. eliminate the short last line of a para.?

I started using Microsoft Word ever since I was 5, but I never knew of this trick until I read the following! Why does this gambit work, when the word count remains the same? (c) Word-order cha...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by TextKit‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Chris Henry‭

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Q&A Free Windows 10 software for trimming videos (e.g. .mp4) from 2-10 GB?

Can you please recommend free software for my Windows 10 laptop, to trim videos from 2 to 10 GB? I've tried Lightworks, ShotCut. But they keep freezing after I apply my trim, and I must force-clos...

2 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by TextKit‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by mcalex‭

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Meta What do we do about webapps?

I am not sure of web applications (Google Docs, GitHub). But, Overleaf is Latex. I will move Latex to Software Codidact. Is Latex a programming? I found a source : Many people dismiss this ques...

posted 4y ago by deleted user

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Q&A Isn't Slug redundant, when Bleed oversteps the page and Bleed < Slug?

I read Scott's explanation, but Slug still feels redundant to me. Because Bleed < Slug, then whenever you cut the paper at Bleed, you will have cut off the Slug inescapably, simultaneously...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by TextKit‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by dsr‭

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Q&A Does Wireless receiver increase internet speed?

Someone told me that using receiver a 2 MBPS WIFI can reach upto 2.6 MBPS. I usually don't download too much things but recently I was downloading a 20 GB software using Microsoft Edge, the downloa...

posted 3y ago by Anonymous‭

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