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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 the loop. Though I guess that would be pretty infrequent compared to the floating point equivalent.

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7 miesięcy temudiscuss

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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10 miesięcy temudiscuss

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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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 project got behind they would take people from a project that was on track or better to put them on to it. I pleaded for a super green status for the best projects on the basis that the team would finish sooner and then the entire team could work on something else nnd get it done well too. They could take people from the next tier but that would be an incentive to do well. Not a hope.

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3 lata temudiscuss

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 a not so reliable quantum computer? At the start of computers Colossus was not ultra reliable but that didn't matter as it just cycled around trying different possibilitied on codes so failing on the task every so often wouldn't have made much difference.

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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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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 colour it sort of is inside my body rather than in my mind's eye and the bits have a feeling which can be vague if not well known. I can imagine moving mechanisms quite well.

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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 were used instead of indentation, one could also use straight Python. It generated HTML but I'm sure could be adapted easily.

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3 lata temudiscuss

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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3 lata temudiscuss

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 lower priority than control. Has anyone ever done a study even of how much benefit it would have in countering paedophiles even ignoring any loss from the general control freakery and general loss of freedom? I think it would be quite ineffective compared to the citizen organizations countering paedophilia. It's just trying to emulate China in conttrolling the population.

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3 lata temudiscuss

It's not a vote winner.

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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 looked out for various key words and important lines could be fully monitored

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3 lata temudiscuss

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 videos that their AIs flag, and it is a nasty job with a lot of burnout. Scale makes the job easier if anything.

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3 lata temudiscuss

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 unworkable. I think they did about as well as one can in that situation. They put in a couple of very strong warnings about what they would do if it wasn't changed but I don't think it'll have much effect without some much stronger arm twisting. The measures seem to me to have little to do with protecting children and would not be very effective in that respect, volunteer groups work at detection very successfully but the law and police don't really support them. What they do wouldn't really be covered by this at all. It seems something the security services and the control freaks in government want, and who's going to oppose it and be liable to being called a paedophile supporter?

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3 lata temudiscuss

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 seem like troublemking to have a .zip directory that doesn't act like a zip file

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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 law has been extended far too long and should be about thirty years. On the other hand I think trade marks should not be nowhere so easily liable to be lost even if people do use the term generally. Disney should still be able to make new Micky Mouse cartoons and be defended from others making them.

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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. If it wasn't important enough for others to walk then it definitely wasn't important enough to interrupt me. Before that I was at a place where they had tannoys. I moved the tannoys away from me but they were still annoying. I tried showuing that they were losing the place millions. It would have been far cheaper to have somebody employed to walk around looking for people. They only got rid of them when marketing got in and the first thing they said was to et rid of the tannoy.

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3 lata temudiscuss

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 years later that made up a contents list and attempted spacing the words to get even lines and stop having just a single line of a paragraph on a page and a few things like that but, the output was to a lineprinter so I never thought of doing anything fancy. It did its own spacing so it wouldn't suffer that problem except where the spacing for a section was explicit. The contents list was printed at the end and you moved it to the beginnng yourself :-) I would guess a lot of people did that sort of thing then.

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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 would also only print those characters that fell on the current alignment. It would be a bit fiddly making the 1/24 inch alignments of the pages and I'm sure there would have been plenty of mistakes! But it is straightforwardly doable with the tools he had. Very impressive though. If he did have a LISP program like that I'd have expect him to have developed it further or make some mention of it.

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