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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 th…

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…

Well I dont think I need all that equipment to experience the effect. So I can save myself the money, yay!

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 th…

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 ha…

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! ;-)

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…

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 th…

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 ar…

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, an…

It's not a vote winner.

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…

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 t…

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 po…

They'd obviously hate me too! I've got directories called .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 i…

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. A…

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 wa…

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 …

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 w…

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 differenc…

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 r…