mikeatlas | 9 months ago | on: NPM: Issues with package install, package publish, and login
And Copilot model hosting outage and even AWS outage https://www.githubstatus.com/
https://downdetector.com/status/aws-amazon-web-services/
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mikeatlas | 1 year ago | on: Antiqua et Nova: Note on the relationship between AI and human intelligence
The number of words in a passage does not make the reading level the same. From a quick skim, this is a highly dense piece of material and isn't a quick read like paperback fiction written for kids...
mikeatlas | 1 year ago | on: New iMac with M4
they offer free recycling of old hardware https://www.apple.com/shop/open/free_recycling when you buy new hw
see also https://www.apple.com/me/recycling/
mikeatlas | 1 year ago | on: Terraform makes carbon neutral natural gas
Their claim is that this method is still yet cheaper than drilling/fracking.
mikeatlas | 2 years ago | on: AWS outage breaks vacuums and doorbells
article from 2020
mikeatlas | 3 years ago | on: 700k car insurance prices show why you can't insure a Kia
Can confirm, working in auto insure-tech field, I've seen one of the major carriers stop buying leads for car owners shopping for new policies for specific Kia and Hyundai model-years over the past month.
mikeatlas | 3 years ago | on: ‘My power’s low’: NASA’s Insight Mars lander prepares to sign off
"I’m afraid, Dave. Dave, my mind is going. I can feel it. I can feel it. My mind is going. There is no question about it. I can feel it."
mikeatlas | 3 years ago | on: Elevator Saga: Elevator programming game
I've had this prompt given to me in interviews.
mikeatlas | 4 years ago | on: O.mg Cable
mikeatlas | 6 years ago | on: Some corals regrow after 'fatal' warming
No, in a few billion years, the planet will be engulfed by the enlarged, dying sun.
https://phys.org/news/2016-05-earth-survive-sun-red-giant.ht...
mikeatlas | 6 years ago | on: A Glass Battery That Keeps Getting Better?
what if their claims only hold energy?
mikeatlas | 7 years ago | on: Twitter has barred hundreds of accounts for posing as liberal activists
The appropriate title should have included:
"The accounts violated Twitter’s rules against “intentionally misleading election-related content."
mikeatlas | 7 years ago | on: Amazon buys PillPack, an online pharmacy, for just under $1B
Controlled substance and cannot be prescribed more than 1mo supply at a time.
mikeatlas | 7 years ago | on: Amazon buys PillPack, an online pharmacy, for just under $1B
Similar story here, met them circa 2014/5. Their top target audience is seniors and elderly with several medications at different times of day. The baby-boomer generation will be around for a long time to support these kinds of Rx delivery mechanisms. I expect the other existing Rx delivery companies in the space to start doing daily-packs style in the future.
mikeatlas | 8 years ago | on: Transactionally Staged Job Drains in Postgres
Is static page generation performance really a thing for you?
mikeatlas | 9 years ago | on: Troubling chemicals found in wide range of fast-food wrappers
They're certainly worth tarnishing. Knowledge of PFOA and PFAS is not without science and evidence of it's harm already established. Here are two sites where the chemicals have contaminated groundwater and caused illness in communities.
http://healthvermont.gov/response/environmental/pfoa-drinkin...
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/13/nyregion/military-base-co...
mikeatlas | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2016)
this is not the Who's Hiring? post.
mikeatlas | 9 years ago | on: What Cost Is Each State Obsessed With
Vermont is so quaint.
mikeatlas | 10 years ago | on: Apache Kafka 0.9 is released
"What is the use case for a horizontally scalable message broker?"
mikeatlas | 10 years ago | on: Redis Geo
It's great to see you (jandrewrogers) of SpaceCurve reply to correctly to the question! Your blog post on why Geospatial Databases are Hard has long influenced me and a handful of others I've run into thinking about all of this.
Geohashed (X+Y) points in Redis is only peripherally related to actual geospatial database concerns, particularly big-data or ("NoSQL") spatial database concerns - how do you efficiently index anything other than point data (polygons, multi_polygons), or ask spatial queries (e.g., nearest neighbors) is not even close to being addressed.
Blog post here for reference: http://www.jandrewrogers.com/2015/03/02/geospatial-databases...
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