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The real point, if you think about it, is that those of you who are carnivores allow these same people to prepare food that you eat.
Now that's food for thought.*
* Pressure is a latent affect of chili burgers, q.v.
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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I don't think it's yet been made compulsory for carnivores to eat at Burger King, has it?
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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Widen your horizon - wherever you are you eat mac-WendyBurger-king.
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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You mean you didn't get that memo????
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant Anonymous
- The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine Winston Churchill, 1944
- I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy. Me, all the time
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Umm, it's located in "Coon Rapids"...
Need we say any more?
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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And "charges" and "police" appears in every god damn news story!
Snow expected Tuesday, according to police, charges are not expected to be filed
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I prefer computers and cats
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Ok, it seems Mr. Bihy isn't posting it. Here's an easy one for today:
Old-fashioned mother's question (5)
I ain't got no signature.
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Pirate Guy wrote: Old-fashioned mother's question
Aren't kiddos excessively modern these days?
Okay, let me get my coat, which I haven't got to get since Feb
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Eh ?
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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Nope.
I ain't got no signature.
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With utter disgust at the wordplay ...
MUMSY
Y = question? Really? I'm still shuddering!
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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Like it or not, you should start to preparing for tomorrow...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Just because you did't see it before? That's ridiculous really!
Anyway you are up for tomorrow.
I ain't got no signature.
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Professional standards! If I've not seen it before it's because no crossword editor in the world would accept it.
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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Well, whatever fancies you!
I ain't got no signature.
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I agree
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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OR…
Why VB is better than C#.
Back in the days before GPS, and when Transit took up half the bridge on a destroyer, I navigated by sextant and Admiralty tables. After four years working in Iraq, I took a year off to go sailing, so thought I would computerise the tables function – using an HP75C (no Interwebs back then). I built a digital almanac in HP Basic, good for plus or minus 3k years, handling the Sun, Moon and GHA Aries. I had to jump through a few hoops to fit it all into 24k, but it worked admirably – worst landfall error 1/3 of a mile.
Later, I rewrote it in Classic VB and added the six navigational planets, and a star catalogue of the 57 navigational stars plus Polaris. Then I moved it into VB.net, and added a few more bells and whistles, just for the hell of it - running fixes, great circle routes etc.
I have now decided to put it into C#, and Xamarinate™ it for my Android tablet. Yesterday, I had a quick look through the code to see what gotchas might lie hidden and…
An eleven element array containing the relevant constants, and a loop:
For I = 0 to 10
X = X + array(I) * Tu^I
Next
Has now turned into
X = 0.40909280422233 _
- 0.02269378904316 * Tu _
- 0.00000751461206 * Tu * Tu _
+ 0.00969263751958 * Tu * Tu * Tu _
- 0.00024909726935 * Tu * Tu * Tu * Tu _
- 0.00121043431763 * Tu * Tu * Tu * Tu * Tu _
- 0.00018931974247 * Tu * Tu * Tu * Tu * Tu * Tu _
+ 0.00003451873409 * Tu * Tu * Tu * Tu * Tu * Tu * Tu _
+ 0.00013511757293 * Tu * Tu * Tu * Tu * Tu * Tu * Tu * Tu _
+ 0.00002807071214 * Tu * Tu * Tu * Tu * Tu * Tu * Tu * Tu * Tu _
+ 0.00001187793519 * Tu * Tu * Tu * Tu * Tu * Tu * Tu * Tu * Tu * Tu
This is just one of dozens of functions using exponentiation.
Please can I scream now?
P.S. Bonus points for identifying the function.
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What is wrong with writing a pow() function ? Or use it from some exisiting library ?
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pow() is a trigonometric function, and therefore rather slow - some of these functions run many times in a single calculation. I would only use it for fractional exponents, for which there is no other solution. As for using a different library, I have zero experience of Xamarin, so I am not sure how that would be handled. I am porting this code to get some idea of using Xamarin.
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Rage wrote: What is wrong with writing a pow() function ?
Using a loop there is no need to write a pow() function:
Fac = Tu
X = array(0)
For I = 1 to 10
X = X + array(I) * Fac
Fac = Fac * Tu
Next
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