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[ my public key: https://keybase.io/logiclabs; my proof: https://keybase.io/logiclabs/sigs/CeUR6ys3TJDP4pcQOd7mV_4RuFbaXPYfcPtH_qKWmlY ]
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logiclabs··on ChatGPT: How many weekdays were there in June 2023? Answer: 4 days
GPT 3.5 gives me 22 days in June and a fairly simple working out.

GPT 4 answers 20 days (wrong) and an overly complicated working out where it spends most of its time explaining Zeller's Congruence to find day of the week for the start day of June. By the time I read it I could probably have gone and found a paper calendar and counted.

logiclabs··on Show HN: Saag as a Service – macronutrient-portioned Indian spinach curry
If you're eating the same meal every day and/or every meal, it's actually pretty easy..
logiclabs··on Ask HN: Have you ever been on a project where the key person was hit by a bus?
Worked on project in a small team, where the lead developer had a heart attack shortly after the project started. I had to step up to take on his role, though he was back in work 3 weeks later. As it was at the start of the project, it didn't suffer any real issues.
logiclabs··on Ask HN: Is it OK to scrape data to gain affiliate membership?
Most affiliate networks provide product data feeds for a lot of their members.

Nearly all affiliates I've seen prevent scraping in their terms and conditions of affiliation.. they will also have a limit of the types of marketing you can do, which may exclude comparison sites.

Alternatively, write a few blog articles on some of the products you are comparing and add some links to them, then you have content.

logiclabs··on Ask HN: What did you find in your DNA using 23andme?
Found out both my father and I possibly had a tendency to iron overload (or haemochromatosis). Blood test then found both of us to have very high iron stored in bodies.

High stored iron is linked with all sorts of bad stuff in the body, particularly CAD.

logiclabs··on How Streak built a graph database on Cloud Spanner to wrangle billions of emails
Isn't this just 4 many-to-many tables and querying using joins, not a graph database?
logiclabs··on Amazon Sets Its Sights on the $88B Online Ad Market
We've been displaying Amazon CPM display ads on a site for over 2 years now. This is an ad network for affiliates, but paid by CPM. It's mostly a mix of large brand adverts and Amazon remarketing ads (normally for products you've looked at).

The service is about to be shutdown though at the end of this month, and their suggestion is that we apply to their larger header bidding network (Unified Ad Marketplace), but not sure we'll qualify for that.

logiclabs··on Apple introduces macOS Mojave
Yes, they spent about 5 minutes hyping it up to mucho mucho applause by the crowd.

I was baffled!

logiclabs··on Apple introduces macOS Mojave
OMG!!! But Dark mode!!! It's like, so, so cool ...

I can't believe I can be allowed to change the colours of the desktop after years of Jony Ive dictating/advising what my desktop should look like.

logiclabs··on Ask HN: 1.1.1.1 DNS (Cloudflare) outage?
It made my router lockup for some reason, even changing DNS locally on PC seemed to give some routing issues. Router reboot seemed to sort out.
logiclabs··on Ask HN: 1.1.1.1 DNS (Cloudflare) outage?
It's still down, shall we let Cloudflare know .. ;-)
logiclabs··on Mermaid: Markdown-like generation of diagrams and flowcharts from text
Gitlab.com supports Mermaid in markdown.. https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/markdown.html#mermaid
logiclabs··on Ask HN: Where should a UK-based company move to if encryption is outlawed?
Did you see the correction at the bottom?

Subversion of E2E encryption would likely be in conflict with the GDPR: https://tresorit.com/blog/encryption-gdpr-compliance/

logiclabs··on TypeScript support in Electron
It is VS Code (it shows this in the video). Looks like Light or Light+ theme
logiclabs··on .NET Productivity Improvements [video]
It's only available in the Enterprise version, which is well beyond the budget of most.

https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/news/releasenotes/vs2017-...

logiclabs··on Ask HN: Why Are So Many HN Links Non-HTTPS?
HTTPS Ad tech is one problem. Still lots of ad networks that don't support TLS/SSL and lots of media sites rely on ads for revenue.
logiclabs··on Show HN: CurrencyFormatter.js – easily format currencies in JavaScript
Looks good. Can you add a link to the github repo on your github webpage?
logiclabs··on Show HN: How many days until?
Thanks! Yes, the current site was mostly developed around SEO reasons.
logiclabs··on Show HN: How many days until?
Yes, it was a timezone bug. The page was tracking January 20 (but at midnight in UTC timezone), so some people would see Jan 19, some Jan 20. It's now fixed.
logiclabs··on Show HN: How many days until?
Sorry, the 19th was a timezone issue and is now fixed.

The reason for 2 events/pages are that they are tracking different events.

1) The day of the inauguration (start of the day) 2) The start time of the inauguration ceremony (12pm ET on the 20th).

The latter will allow you to count down the time to the start of the ceremony in your local timezone.

logiclabs··on Show HN: How many days until?
Thanks for the nice feedback.
logiclabs··on Show HN: How many days until?
Thanks for the feedback. The blurry coloured backgrounds are just images (placeholder images really) but they transition in using CSS. This is a bit more obvious on the pages that have a "proper" background image.

I'll look at adding an option to allow users to disable the transitions.

logiclabs··on Show HN: How many days until?
Thanks for the feedback. The latter is a bit of a CSS over-sight/"bug".. will fix.
logiclabs··on Show HN: How many days until?
Yes, filtering will definitely be added soon.
logiclabs··on Show HN: How many days until?
All the countdowns will use your computer/phones local timezone.

If you're counting to a date (without a particular time), you'll get the remaining time to midnight in your own timezone. If it's an event with a time, you'll see the start time of the event shown in your local timezone (but the countdown/remaining time will be same everywhere).

logiclabs··on Show HN: How many days until?
Yes, you discovered quite a few of the "hidden" urls - also /when-is/.

Originally, the site had exactly as you described with a cleaner url, but SEO had different ideas.

logiclabs··on Show HN: How many days until?
Thanks to whoever posted this, I'm the owner of the site.

Thanks for all the suggestions and feedback. Quite a lot of the feature suggestions made here, I am in the process of developing. The site was basically an MVP for a bigger app, which is why only a handful of events are in the events list.

Feel free to send any feedback via the site (feedback button in bottom right of site)

logiclabs··on Ask HN: What Cloud storage provider(s) do you use?
BackBlaze B2 - Cost
logiclabs··on Ask HN: Why not offer flexible pricing for Saas
Slack already does this on paid accounts. If a given user isn't active for a month then they don't get charged.

I guess the small difference with Slack is that they know you'll nearly always have more than 1 user.

logiclabs··on Ask HN: What is the business opportunity of climate change for startups?
This device, isn't it basically a plant? :-)

Seriously though, microalgae carbon capture sounds like it was a good way forward.

http://bioscience.oxfordjournals.org/content/60/9/722.full

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