* Posts by They call me Mr Nick

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FYI: Today's computer chips are so advanced, they are more 'mercurial' than precise – and here's the proof

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FAIL

Floating Point Fault

Many years ago while at University I heard of an interesting fault.

A physicist had run the same program a few days apart but had got different results. And had noticed.

Upon investigation it transpired that the floating point unit of the ICL mainframe was giving incorrect answeres in the 4th decimal place.

This was duly fixed. But I wondered at the time how many interesting discoveries in physics were actually undiscovered hardware failures.

Browser tracking protections won't stop tracking, warns DuckDuckGo

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I remember when IBM (remember them) was the great satan. Then one day I woke up and the hate had transferred to Microsoft. Now of course it should be Facebook or maybe Google or Twitter. No, stick with Facebook.

Wi-Fi devices set to become object sensors by 2024 under planned 802.11bf standard

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Re: Stalker's dream

It will make coersive control much easier/more frightening. The whole thing sounds utterly terrifying.

A decades-old lesson on not inserting Excel where it doesn't belong

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Re: Try these two

Both calculators I use day to day get both right:

SpeedCrunch on PC and Mathlab Graphing Calulator on my phone.

Hundreds charged in internet's biggest child-abuse swap-shop site bust: IP addy leak led cops to sys-op's home

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Re: poor choice of words

From what I have read Tetris seems to help with a single traumatic event. With the constant trauma of watching this stuff for whole working days at a time I would be surprised if anything helped. All respect to your friend. I am pretty sure I couldn't do it and would never want it to be put to the test.

http://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2017-03-28-tetris-used-prevent-post-traumatic-stress-symptoms