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mikequinlan

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About mikequinlan

  Michael Quinlan
  Retired Computer Programmer
  Boise, Idaho
  mquinlan (at) gmail (dot) com
  Bluesky: @mikeq.bsky.social
  Mastodon: @mquinlan@mastodon.social

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    Comment #48998833

    What does 'iOS developer platform' mean? Xcode? The emulator?

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    Comment #48113751

    It was owned by the University across the street (Colorado State University). The mother of one of my friends was a Systems Programmer. We had a blast learning all about the machin…

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    Comment #48086075

    The Atari 800 was my first personal computer (i.e. one I had at home). I bought one when they first came out and learned 6502 assembler language and had a blast. I had experience w…

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    Comment #47928242

    https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented/blob/m...

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    Comment #47860418

    As TFA says, on x86 `sub eax, eax` encodes to the same number of bytes and executes in the same number of cycles.

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    Comment #47464725

    The prompt doesn't say to pick a random number. I asked to pick a number from 1-1000 and it chose 7,381. Then I asked why it picked that number and it said Nothing mystical, I’m af…

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    Comment #46759711

    https://archive.ph/QLyKT

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    Comment #46472282

    The arrow that shows you which side of the car the gas cap is on.

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    Comment #46368669

    Do you have a better link

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    Comment #46367697

    I don't see anything related to your title at that site. Maybe you meant this https://archive.is/pIM27 But it is from 2018.

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    Comment #46025972

    I sure hope that is true.

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    Comment #45663375

    How is this different from the local Reko markets?

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    Comment #45604285

    >Jim Sanborn planned to auction off the solution to Kryptos, the puzzle he sculpted for the intelligence agency’s headquarters. Two fans of the work then discovered the solution. G…

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    Comment #45402544

    Plankalkül - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plankalk%C3%BCl was designed but as far as I know never implemented (until 2000). ENIAC Short Code - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_…

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    Comment #45401435

    As a customer, if I can't do a chargeback in the case where you don't provide the advertised services, I simply won't do business with you and will go to one of your competitors.

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    Comment #45311507

    Certainly wait until 26.0.1 or whatever the first bugfix update is named.

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    Comment #44935197

    Beyond Meat Denies Filing For Bankruptcy In New Statement https://plantbasednews.org/news/economics/beyond-meat-denies...

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    Comment #44484597

    Clearly the early scribes were looking forward to the 7-bit ASCII code and needed to reduce the number of characters that were represented.

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    Comment #44468881

    The original Commodore was known for a super cheap computer that made it practical for people to have one at home, as well as innovative graphics for the time. I don't know how tha…

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    Comment #44468443

    The hate is because Elon is literally a Nazi. And no, Nazi's are not part of my "tribe".

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    Comment #44438981

    Updated July 1: Microsoft has since updated its blog post, correcting the number from 1 billion to 1.4 billion and confirming Windows hasn't lost millions of users.

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    Comment #44385132

    https://archive.ph/vjChE

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    Comment #44371537

    https://www.apple.com/support/systemstatus/ Apple is having issues with iCloud and other systems.

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