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Greetings May I inquire if the beginners should simply be informed that int's represent the integers and float's the real numbers? Kind Regards Cheerios
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The problem is that lots of people consider a weight of 454 gram an integer numeric value, rather than a real, especially if they use a digital scale. If you ask "the man in the street" to explain "integer" and "real" numbers, you may be surprised by the (lack of) answers you get! (There is nothing 'un-real' about, say, 'five' ) You cannot expect beginners in programming to have a solid background in mathematics.
(Almost) everyone have little problems distinguishing between counting and measuring. Well, that is my experience. YMMV.
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It sounds to me like you could write an interesting article on this application of decimal.
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Speak for yourself.
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If I saw this in my local food store, I might give it a try.
Unless it appears to be sweet like a fruit jam. A smoked, meaty bredspread on dark, whole grain bread could be very tasty, assuming that it would be something like if you put some bacon through your meat grinder.
Sometimes, you use a tiny amount of sugar in meats to round off the taste, without making it 'sweet'. If this is 50% bacon and 50% sugar, then it is not for me!
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A couple of weeks ago I tried unsuccessfully to get slots for the both of us to get vaccinated, but the website kept crashing and the phone number was busy all day. In the end we got a slot for just one of us at a location some 60 miles from our home! Yuck!
This morning the second batch of bookings became available, a mere 8 miles for home. We got slots for the both of us for Friday. And the website only crashed some 10 times before we got our bookings! The government in Florida can be proud. Their IT guys are getting better! Still, we are both in a very good mood now.
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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You're lucky.
Here, normal folks will have to wait a few months before the vaccine (after healthcare personel, old folks, teachers .... )
According to this :
"There are between 11,704,258 and 22,456,373 people in front of you in the queue for a COVID vaccine across Canada"
I'd rather be phishing!
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Well my wife and I are both in the 75 years plus group, which helped a lot to get a booking! Folks younger than 65 are going to wait a loooong time.
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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One of our health officials said yesterday that we don't actually need another vaccine to be approved. We will have enough.
Eventually.
I love Canada, but this is not a country you could ever accuse of moving with reckless haste.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Our Justin just ordered (in french) 20,000,000 new doses.
So that'll help (I don't know the production speed of those vaccines)
and to be fair, they did the CERB quickly last spring.
I'd rather be phishing!
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Makes up for all the procrastination, blockades, ethics vioations, racism, corporate pandering, ...
The velvet glove (money) versus the fist.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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Herself had her first jab (Oxford/AstraZeneca) last Wednesday and has had no problems at all, though some of the other workers did take time off complaining of headaches, weariness, and arm pain. (I suspect Skiveitis in most cases though.)
She hasn't caught Covid again since the jab, I can confirm (negative test).
Good luck - you shouldn't need it!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Thanks!
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Now, if only Florida could provide unemployment benefits to the poor sods who lost their jobs due to the pandemic.
Oops, I forgot. It is all due to the COBOL programs used by the state's benefits department!
😫😳
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Hey, I resemble that remark. I worked on that COBOL to VB.Net conversion several years ago - all the reports are done in VB. Net (errors and all)
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, navigate a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects! - Lazarus Long
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If you're in a high risk group, good for you. Personally I'm going to wait to see what side effects start appearing. I'm concerned these vaccines were rushed through testing so while I have no concerns about the vaccine payload, I am concerned about the vaccine vehicle.
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Tracking my birthday-present-coffee-machine and it was picked up by FedEx at 16:46.
But it's 16:33 now ...
The time in Italy - where the machine is made - is one hour ahead, of course. But they do all tracking in courier local time rather than use UTC and convert to client local time when they display it ...
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Nah - that's next month. I'm just getting the pressie in early so it can get caught up by lockdowns, Brexit, zombie apocalypse, delivery by UPS*, vegan protests, ... and I still get it on the day.
* Like that could ever happen. UPS: UrParcelSmashed
It's coming by FedEx who are a little better, but make up their own "customs import rules"and charge you to query it.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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OriginalGriff wrote: rather than use UTC and convert to client local time when they display it
Because that would solve all of their problems, right?
Storing UTC is not a silver bullet | Jon Skeet's coding blog[^]
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Why don't we use UTC all over the place and abandon local time zones entirely?
Why is there a "need" to everywhere call it 08:00 when people go to work and 16:00 when they return home, when the socalled "same time" really can vary among 24 different real times across the world?
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I agree, we should have a global time based on GMT. Americans would go for it if they realised they could sleep in until noon instead of having to wake at 7am (07:00)!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Whether it makes sense or not, every government would have to legislate it, every door or website that posts business hours would have to be changed, and people would have to get accustomed to talking about having meals at times that previously seemed beyond bizarre. Even places that switched to metric or Celsius also quoted Imperial or Fahrenheit for quite a while thereafter. Canada converted when I was in my teens, so I still often do a mental conversion to the previous system, and you still find lbs/ozs in grocery stores (although in smaller fonts, probably because that's mandatory).
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