mikequinlan

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by mikequinlan 2y ago
Earlier https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42283304
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by mikequinlan 2y ago
The issue is unemployment payments. In many states, if you fire someone without cause then you have to make the unemployment payments. If you fire with cause then you don't.
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by mikequinlan 2y ago
August 28, 2018
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by mikequinlan 2y ago
They are actually paying $150 mln in cash and taking on $500 mln in debt.
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by mikequinlan 2y ago
https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented Specifically https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented?tab=re...
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by mikequinlan 2y ago
That is a good idea, but ChatGPT still seems to figure it out. Prompt See if you can solve this arithmetic problem: George picks 33 cows on Tuesday. Then he picks 69 cows on Wednesday. On Thursday, he picks triple the number of cows he did
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by mikequinlan 2y ago
The current ChatGPT gets it right. Apple's team seems to be wrong. Prompt: See if you can solve this arithmetic problem: Oliver picks 44 kiwis on Friday. Then he picks 58 kiwis on Saturday. On Sunday, he picks double the number of kiwi
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by mikequinlan 2y ago
Sorry; I was sure he covered fuzzy logic but I guess I should have checked. Maybe this Hacker News item from 2020 is better: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25490955
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by mikequinlan 2y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSTNhvDGbYI
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by mikequinlan 2y ago
Possibly. Can I be certain that 1. They will protect them so only I can access them? 2. Not secretly modify them? 3. I can receive a copy whenever I need one?
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by mikequinlan 2y ago
Wouldn't SQUEAL be an even smoother interpretation of SQL?
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by mikequinlan 2y ago
Only at Apple. Huawei Mate XT tri-fold phone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yv_S7KrOlfk
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Jury awards Apple $250 in design patent lawsuit against Masimo(cnn.com)
2 points by mikequinlan 2y ago|0 comments
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by mikequinlan 2y ago
So you switched to reporting on a service that literally thrives on scams? https://www.reddit.com/r/Twitter/comments/1djwa1s/why_does_t...
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'No Smoking' Signs on Planes Can Now Stay on Forever(nytimes.com)
3 points by mikequinlan 2y ago|2 comments
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by mikequinlan 2y ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/22/business/no-smoking-sign-... "The Federal Aviation Administration did away with a rule that had required an off switch for the sign even though smoking on U.S. fli
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San Francisco MUNI's rail system will see an upgrade from floppy disks(abc7news.com)
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by mikequinlan 2y ago
The USB protocol gives the drive access to all (physical) memory on the machine. QR codes only encode text (usually a URL but it can be any text).
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by mikequinlan 2y ago
1. IQ is a bad measurement of intelligence. 2. IQ is a quotient. What age did they say that o1 was? 3. Using a Mensa test (Mensa Norway apparently) is a bad way to determine IQ. https://test.mensa.no/home/test/en
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by mikequinlan 2y ago
In case anyone is wondering, the author hasn't found her yet; the article ends with: >The blizzard is worsening. The announcement rings out that the campus is closing early due to the weather. The missing secretary’s voice still elu
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by mikequinlan 2y ago
Rational arithmetic represents numbers as a numerator and denominator (rational numbers). There are hundreds (at least) of libraries that implement rational arithmetic on a computer. https://www.google.com/search?q=rational+
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by mikequinlan 2y ago
The solution to porch pirates is social, not technical.
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by mikequinlan 2y ago
What is the advantage of fixed point arithmetic over rational arithmetic? Rational arithmetic seems to include fixed point arithmetic as a subset (in fixed point arithmetic the denominator is always a power of the base).
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by mikequinlan 2y ago
Can someone explain to me what van Gogh has to do with this protest (Just Stop Oil)? Is it because he painted with oils?
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by mikequinlan 2y ago
https://archive.ph/yFduu
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Ask HN: Red Telephone (Washington–Moscow Direct Communications Link) Software
4 points by mikequinlan 2y ago|1 comments
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by mikequinlan 2y ago
https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/slack-teams-google-ch...
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by mikequinlan 2y ago
https://www.wsj.com/business/energy-oil/electricity-that-cos...
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by mikequinlan 2y ago
What is wrong with hosting your own servers? You can say whatever you want but you cannot force others to listen to you.
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by mikequinlan 2y ago
It says that teens will but put into "private accounts that can be messaged, tagged or mentioned only by people they already follow". Is there a way that I, too, can have a private account that can only be messaged, tagged, or men

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