mikequinlan

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AP News Site Down?(apnews.com)
7 points by mikequinlan 1y ago|4 comments
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by mikequinlan 1y ago
Error: Server Error The server encountered a temporary error and could not complete your request. Please try again in 30 seconds.
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by mikequinlan 1y ago
You can coat a raw egg in chocolate and fool someone into biting into it. https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=743317267007866
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by mikequinlan 1y ago
>What is the protocol you should use with SSDs that you’re storing? The correct protocol is to copy the data to a more durable medium and store that.
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by mikequinlan 1y ago
This is the actual study: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S107158192...
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A Lack of Intelligence, Not Training, May Be Why People Struggle with Computers(scitechdaily.com)
8 points by mikequinlan 1y ago|5 comments
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by mikequinlan 1y ago
"Researchers say that a person’s intelligence plays a bigger role in their computer proficiency than previously believed, so much so that practice alone may not be enough to ensure ease of use."
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by mikequinlan 2y ago
IBM Visual Age for Java was the first product I used that did this. The problem was that all utilities and other processes required access to the source code, which had to first be exported from the database then re-imported.
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by mikequinlan 2y ago
If it is know that secret agencies are using Signal, then it is almost certain that other agencies are working to exploit that. An obvious attack on Signal is to get one of your people a job working there, or to bribe/blackmail and exi
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by mikequinlan 2y ago
Gift link https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/23/world/asia/cambodia-money...
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Heathrow Airport closes due to major power outage caused by substation fire(abc.net.au)
1 points by mikequinlan 2y ago|1 comments
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by mikequinlan 2y ago
"The United Kingdom's biggest airport, Heathrow Airport, is experiencing a significant power outage due to a fire at an electrical substation that supplies the airport's power and it will be closed until midnight on March 21.
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Tesla Stock Is Plunging Again. It Could Drop for a Ninth Straight Week(barrons.com)
30 points by mikequinlan 2y ago|29 comments
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by mikequinlan 2y ago
>Midwest thing. Southwest I think.
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Plane Fire at Denver Airport Forces Passengers to Evacuate onto Wing(nytimes.com)
2 points by mikequinlan 2y ago|1 comments
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by mikequinlan 2y ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/us/american-airlines-denv...
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by mikequinlan 2y ago
A plow cuts furrows into the soil; a bulldozer just flattens it.
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by mikequinlan 2y ago
"Pilot tells Air Traffic Control that door of small plane is open moments before crash in Pa." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iszy62yt_i8
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Tesla car battery catches fire as crews demolish home damaged in prev blaz(wjla.com)
9 points by mikequinlan 2y ago|4 comments
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by mikequinlan 2y ago
"A two-story Montgomery County, Maryland home destroyed in a fire from November 2024 caught fire again Wednesday, this time due to a Tesla car battery found at the scene, according to a Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service (MCFRS)
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by mikequinlan 2y ago
x7 is computed by x8 - x, so you get x8 - x - x4 which is 2 subtractions (and 2 delays). You only want 1 delay.
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by mikequinlan 2y ago
https://blog.codinghorror.com/object-relational-mapping-is-t...
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The full text of the US-Ukraine mineral deal(kyivindependent.com)
10 points by mikequinlan 2y ago|0 comments
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by mikequinlan 2y ago
The article debunks *the author's* misconceptions about speeding…
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by mikequinlan 2y ago
Has anyone found the wings yet?
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by mikequinlan 2y ago
https://ericlippert.com/2020/04/13/life-part-1/
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by mikequinlan 2y ago
People (fraudulently and/or accidentally) use multiple social security numbers. https://www.nbcnews.com/technolog/odds-someone-else-has-your...
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by mikequinlan 2y ago
January 15, 2025: The day DSLReports.com died https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42768811
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by mikequinlan 2y ago
January 15, 2025: The day DSLReports.com died https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42768811
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by mikequinlan 2y ago
Hacker News Guidelines https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html "Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Vid

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