dmcq2

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by dmcq2 6mo ago
At this rate it might be worthwhile turning integer divisions by an unknown which is constant in a loop into a call to a routine to generate the inverse and then use that within the loop. Though I guess that would be pretty infrequent compa
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by dmcq2 10mo ago
If you account for the satellite being further away because it would be above the point the distance works out okay - except that geostationary satellites go around the equator and that is a thousand miles away from that.
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by dmcq2 1y ago
Well I dont think I need all that equipment to experience the effect. So I can save myself the money, yay!
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by dmcq2 3y ago
This is something that really annoyed me at a company I worked at for a while. And it was far worse - it wasn't a case of not being rewarded, people who planned properly and got the job done were punished for their efforts. If a proje
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by dmcq2 3y ago
I'm pretty certain the QC development will continue even if at a slightly slower rate. And maybe AI can help with manufacturing more reliable and cheap versions :-) What I think has not be investigated so much is what can be done with
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by dmcq2 3y ago
I think a sharp knife cutting a donut at an angle through the center is quite enough of a problem to imagine for most people! ;-)
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by dmcq2 3y ago
I have two modes depending on the task, a two dimensional one as in seeing the elephant which is in colour - though nowhere near as good as a picture! - and a three dimensional one in which I can imagine it in three dimensions but not in co
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by dmcq2 3y ago
I used Spyce for a while years ago https://spyce.sourceforge.net/ it stopped being maintained and I abandoned it but it had a number of ideas which I think work well. It changed the Python so semicolons and square brackets
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by dmcq2 3y ago
The principle of subsidiarity was supposed to counter making laws affecting individuals like this would, this sort of stuff should be up to individual countries. The bureaucrats are trying to expand out of their remit.
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by dmcq2 3y ago
That is so awful, Britain is trying on this sort of thing too saying it is to protect children. However they don't try and support citizen organiztions that do a good job there, and have been involved in actions showing it is much lowe
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by dmcq2 3y ago
It's not a vote winner.
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by dmcq2 3y ago
System X was set up thirty to forty years ago to do everything Room 641A was supposed to do without needing to be anywhere near the exchanges. They could just sit in London and put in the numbers to intercept and analogue signal processors
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by dmcq2 3y ago
How many people do you think they should employ at the job? Ten years ago China was already employing two million people to monitor the internet. Google and others employ tens of thousands of people round the world to monitor pictures or vi
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by dmcq2 3y ago
It seemed to me that Google were struggling to stay its their limit as a company which supports government initiatives and is trying to find a way of working within them, whilst pointing out that most of what is being proposed is totally un
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by dmcq2 3y ago
They'd obviously hate me too! I've got directories called <name>.html which have an index.html in them which I use to have an equivalent to <name.pdf with all the image files and fonts included in them. But yes it does se
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by dmcq2 3y ago
I just today removed some disallow directives from robots.txt files and put in noidex metas on the pages instead like Google recommends. It doesn't really have much use nowadays. As to copyright - yes I agree the Micky Mouse copyright
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by dmcq2 3y ago
At a job I had they wanted me to install an instant messaging app on my compute! I refused point blank. I said they could email me and I'd look at he email every so often. If it was really important they could get up and walk to see me
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by dmcq2 4y ago
I wonder if there are more examples of extra spacing in the thesis after correction. It may be evidence the thesis was done on punched cards which were duplicated and corrected. I produced a simple program with no maths only a couple of yea
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by dmcq2 4y ago
Reading it the obvious way I'd have done the job at the time would be to do two or even four prints on each page selecting which chracers fell on that gride each time. The thesis would be written using LISP to do the formatting. This w
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by dmcq2 5y ago
As far as I can see the reason for a large number of digits was to do the equivalent of floating point without having an exponent. Also a number of digits gets lost doing differences and not doing proper rounding. Konrad Zuse was the first
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by dmcq2 6y ago
I'm in favor of twitter banning links until the New York Post blacks out the email addresses in its pictures. That sort of thing is not necessary for the story and lots of trolls reading them will simply destroy them. It looks like inc