markh1967

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by markh1967 6mo ago
About 9 years ago I had a run-in with stomach cancer. After a few months of chemo and a 7 hour operation I was eventually declared cancer free and have been ever since, but still have to live with the consequences of the treatment and be vi
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by markh1967 7mo ago
An enthralling example of just how good a public speaker Duouglas Adams was and, 30 years later, still relevant and insiteful.
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PDC 1996 Keynote with Douglas Adams [video](youtube.com)
1 points by markh1967 7mo ago|1 comments
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by markh1967 8mo ago
Many years ago I was a technician supporting a few custom programs on thousands of PCs. The developer of one of these programs had added a date check to his code so the program would refuse to run after a set date and each new release would
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by markh1967 8mo ago
I can attest to this from personal experience. After undergoing stomach surgery 8 years ago I started experiencing completely debilitating stomach aches. I had many appointments with my GP and a specialist leading to endoscopies, colonoscop
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by markh1967 1y ago
Why go to this much trouble for a Reddit account? A few months ago I browsed r/all by new and downvoted every crypto scam post to unrelated subreddits I saw. This raised a red flag somewhere inside Reddit (my guess is that I was interf
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by markh1967 1y ago
I first used Uber while on holiday in Poland and consequently every email I got from them was in Polish until I worked out how to cancel that account.
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by markh1967 2y ago
A demonstration of exactly this problem (only in older versions of .Net, newer versions use a different seeding method) https://dotnetfiddle.net/tLGMp6
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by markh1967 2y ago
It's been a while so I can't provide a link but I remember reading about someone who got hold of a video blackjack machine that used a pseudo random number generator and was able to find the seed from only a few hands and then kne
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Tim Hunkin has uploaded remastered 'The Secret Life of Machines' to YouTube(youtube.com)
4 points by markh1967 5y ago|0 comments
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by markh1967 7y ago
I think the most probable reason for this instruction is for calculating parity bits. This would need to be done fast so it makes sense that there would be a CPU instruction to do most of the work.
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by markh1967 8y ago
I ended up being the sole developer for a system that managed vehicle trackers installed in fleet vehicles. A few months after I took over they picked up a new client that was a finance company for people with bad credit ratings who wanted
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by markh1967 9y ago
They really should have used the code that controlled the ghosts in Pac-Man.
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by markh1967 11y ago
"All of them should be allowed on the pavement, because people aren't stupid, they will get out of the way if they see one coming." Speaking as someone who sometimes puts his back out and spends a few days hobbling slowly abo
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by markh1967 11y ago
That would stop any drop-down menu navigation bars from working though.