jcsager

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by jcsager 7d ago
Nope. FORTRAN code is still very performant in this area with modern compilers, which is why it is still used. It's an example of Chesterton's Fence.
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by jcsager 24d ago
Apostasy is treated very severely by many (most?) religions. The cults have just borrowed that concept.
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by jcsager 1mo ago
Yes, we travelled to Cornwall in 1999 but it was cloudy. Got a marvellous view in Oregon in 2017 though. A friend of mine travels to all the solar eclipses he can wherever they are in the world. That's a bit too obsessive for me though
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by jcsager 2mo ago
Assuming that a plain Linux phone had succeeded early on, once banks, retailers and media companies refused to provide apps because of security concerns, then either the phone would die in the marketplace or it would have developed security
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by jcsager 2mo ago
My last desktop before Linux was SunOs4 on a Sun Pizza box. Before that I used Macs. I had to use Win3.1 as road warrior kit until I got a laptop that would run Linux. So I've been using a Linux desktop for at least 30 years both at wo
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by jcsager 2mo ago
The lane asist totally annoyed me in my replacement car (2022 VW Golf) -jerking the steering around when it felt like it. I eventually bought a OBD2 dongle with associated app and managed to change the setting to 'remember last setting
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by jcsager 3mo ago
My dad helped me build a crystal set when I was about 7. I still remember listening to a serialisation of Lorna Doone on the (MW) Home Service on headphones under the bedclothes. Sad that the LW sevice had to close but the BBC is short of c
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by jcsager 3mo ago
He's not a Manc, he's a Scouser originally.
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by jcsager 4mo ago
I found that, even using the STM32 IDE and HAL/CMSIS, I needed to deep dive into the hardware documents, compiler section attributes and linker scripts to build what I wanted (a digital graphic equaliser with optical I/O and a dis
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by jcsager 5mo ago
Fjord ferries in Norway are up around that sort of charge rate, but for 30 mins instead of 5. That kind of battery charging performance is pure marketing until our local LV supply network is uplifted!
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by jcsager 7mo ago
'Balloon Gas' for inflating party balloons is a mixture of Helium and Oxygen, at least in the UK, to stop Tweety Pie asphyxiating him/herself breathing the gas. So although it still is lighter than air, it's not as good
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by jcsager 9mo ago
We got one of those years ago. I had already written a Sudoku solver using Knuth's Dancing Links, so I modified it to find the Bedlam solutions. The program worked mostly but gave duplicates for some of the solutions. It was also fun t
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by jcsager 9mo ago
Planning rules conflict with building regs in the UK. Planning means that most new houses are little boxes made of little more than ticky-tacky. So adding insulation to the walls makes them even smaller inside.
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by jcsager 10mo ago
Spot on. The letter is a prime example of a boilerplate process that Ofcom have developed to meet the requirements of the law as it currently stands. By now I expect they have no illusions about 4Chan's likelihood of complying. I wonde
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by jcsager 10mo ago
I think EncroChat scared them pas-de-merde, and this may be an overreaction by untutored civil servants.
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by jcsager 1y ago
'the government playing by its own rules' generally means they change the rules, often arbitrarily, when some new crisis demands a 'solution'.