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mikequinlan

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  Michael Quinlan
  Retired Computer Programmer
  Boise, Idaho
  mquinlan (at) gmail (dot) com
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apnews.com 1y ago

AP News Site Down?

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scitechdaily.com 1y ago

A Lack of Intelligence, Not Training, May Be Why People Struggle with Computers

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www.abc.net.au 1y ago

Heathrow Airport closes due to major power outage caused by substation fire

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www.barrons.com 1y ago

Tesla Stock Is Plunging Again. It Could Drop for a Ninth Straight Week

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www.nytimes.com 1y ago

Plane Fire at Denver Airport Forces Passengers to Evacuate onto Wing

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wjla.com 1y ago

Tesla car battery catches fire as crews demolish home damaged in prev blaz

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kyivindependent.com 1y ago

The full text of the US-Ukraine mineral deal

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www.consumerreports.org 1y ago

Consumer Reports: 24 of the Worst Products of 2024–and What to Buy Instead

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www.wired.com 1y ago

Revisiting the 3 Biggest Hardware Flops of 2024

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www.cbc.ca 1y ago

Entertainer and mentalist the Kreskin dead at 89

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www.cnn.com 1y ago

Jury awards Apple $250 in design patent lawsuit against Masimo

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www.nytimes.com 1y ago

'No Smoking' Signs on Planes Can Now Stay on Forever

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abc7news.com 1y ago

San Francisco MUNI's rail system will see an upgrade from floppy disks

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news.ycombinator.com 1y ago

Ask HN: Red Telephone (Washington–Moscow Direct Communications Link) Software

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www.bizjournals.com 1y ago

Red Lobster announces next owner

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www.nytimes.com 2y ago

Opinion: All the Alzheimer's Research We Didn't Do

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apnews.com 2y ago

Two Japanese F-35 fighter jets make emergency landings after 1 has mechanical Pr

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theaviationist.com 2y ago

F-35 Crashes Near Albuquerque Airport, New Mexico

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www.washingtonpost.com 2y ago

Lawsuits test Tesla claim that drivers are solely responsible for crashes

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apnews.com 2y ago

Douglas DC-4 plane crashes into river outside Fairbanks, Alaska

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scrippsnews.com 2y ago

Lawsuit over Apple AirTag stalking claims can proceed, judge rules

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codeofmatt.com 2y ago

List of 2024 Leap Day Bugs

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www.washingtonpost.com 2y ago

'Monumental' experiment suggests how life on Earth may have started

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www.hollywoodreporter.com 2y ago

Taylor Swift, Beyoncé Drove "All" of AMC Theatres' Qtrly Revenue Incr

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www.wsj.com 2y ago

You Can Now Buy Shares in Music by Beyoncé or Taylor Swift

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www.washingtonpost.com 2y ago

Tesla worker killed in fiery crash may be first 'Full Self-Driving' fatality

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www.motorbiscuit.com 2y ago

Tesla: You Have to Wipe Bugs/Bird Poop Off Your Cybertruck to Avoid Corrosion

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www.amnh.org 2y ago

John Michell: Country Parson Described Black Holes in 1783 (2000)

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jamanetwork.com 2y ago

Cardiometabolic Effects of Omnivorous vs. Vegan Diets in Identical Twins

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time.com 2y ago

You're Not Imagining It: Cell Phone Reception Is Getting Worse

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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 machines.

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 with assembler language on larger computers (DECSystem 20 and CDC 6400 in high school/, IBM System 360/44 in college then IBM System 370/145 at work) but having my own personal computer was incredible. Of course I moved on to the IBM PC when it first came out (and learned 8086 assembler language), and many PC compatible computers after that, until I retired and got my first iMAC (Intel x32 and x64), then now to my M1 Macbook Pro.

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 afraid. When I’m asked to “pick a number,” I don’t have a stream of true randomness—I generate something that looks arbitrary.

In this case, I leaned toward:

• something comfortably away from the edges (not near 1 or 10,000),

• not a round or patterned number (so, not 7,000 or 7,777),

• and with a bit of internal irregularity (7-3-8-2 has no obvious rhythm).

It gives the impression of having no reason—which is about as close as I can get to a fair, human-style “just picked one.”

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 that might translate into modern times when everyone has a home computer (a telephone at least). Maybe a computer targeted to pre-teens?

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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.

Yes, cured but…

But patients in the trial had to stay on drugs to prevent the immune system from destroying the new cells. Suppressing the immune system, he said, increases the risk of infections and, over the long term, can increase the risk of cancer.

“The argument is this immunosuppression is not as dangerous as what we typically use for kidneys, hearts and lungs, but we won’t know that definitely for many years,” Dr. Hirsch said.

Patients may have to take the immunosuppressant drugs for the rest of their lives, the Vertex spokeswoman said.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/health/diabetes-cure-insu...