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I must admit that it does seem iniquitous that prominant IRA members have been  effectively absolved from their terrorist acts, but British Servicemen have not receive a similar absolution for anything they may, or may not, have done in the heat of the moment.

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I have had three NUC format devices (One an original Atom NUC), one a Brix (used by my wife) and one an Intel i5 NUC. Both the Intel NUCs have a very good graphics chip but obviously the Atom powered one is showing its four years and was struggling running four security full HDTV cameras The i5 eats the CPU intensive job and is probably overkill and an i3 would probably have done the duty with headroom to spare.

My wife uses an i3 Brix, and When I get on it to do the regular  maintenance work I’m very pleased with its responsiveness. Not that my wife does not hammer it as she will often have six or seven Firefox windows open within a Linux VM. (I ask her to run within a vm as then I have less worries/work about her hitting any web nasties/PUPs).

The only aspect that is less pleasing is that Intel’s support for the oldest NUC is a bit flakey and normally causes me to do a lot of Google foo. That machine has now been repurposed as a games box for the grandchildren running some of the vintage Gog Lego games etc. It runs these early noughties games with no problems.

I cannot remember which Brix my wife uses (and cannot kick her off right now!), but Dave uses them very regularly and is much more up to date than I..

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Fooling image recognition software has developed into a sport. The Beeb has a less techie explanation link.

As the AI in image recognition software uses ‘hidden levels’ no-one can know exactly what idiot rules it uses.  This is a BIG problem with AI, and something to get worried about when autonomous killer machines start flying around, or get on sentry duty

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Order of adding attachments, or alpha order for attachments?

I’m not 100% sure what is your problem. Screen shots please!

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Wheels-Of-Fire wrote:

Nop you dont see it oh well

Not sure what ‘it’ is, but I probably do not see it either.

If ‘it’ is the Brexit idea of ‘democracy’ then I do not see ‘it’ either.

We do not have ‘democracy’  in this country but instead we have a five year elected dictatorship, that feels empowered to do its own thing irrespective of whether they lied or dissembled in their manifesto.

I would apply the same criticism to the referendum – we are not going to get what those in favour thought they were voting to get. Just go down the list of promises and we will get none of them except the downsides. That is why I believe we need another referendum.

If the public are misguided enough to want a hard Brexit and cut off Northern Ireland then so be it. (For the reasons previously outlined a Hard Brexit and a wide open border with the EU in Ireland for both goods and people  just cannot work., Ulster would have to be cast adrift)

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As usual the devil is in the detail, but politicians never get involved in detail. That is why they make so many cocked-up laws and introduce half-baked systems such as Universal Woes( (Credit). The Brexit MPs are the worst of the lot, I do not think any of them have read their detailed briefing papers.

When they do, and perhaps understand the detailed constraints, there will be a big ‘Oh Sh*t moment!’

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If taking ppis cause ~4am stomach pains then adjust your eating habits and do not consume carbohydrates after roughly 1800 hrs. (As explained to me by the specialist your body goes into starvation mode in the early hours of the morning, but ppi medication results in a more than usual amount of undigested material hitting the lower intestine where it ferments and the gases produced cause pains.)

Unfortunately carbohydrates include beer! I was prescribed lomatil (it slows things down, allowing daytime digestion) for the times when over-indulgence could not be avoided – but only for use on rare occasions!

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Strong typing made it easier to write compact compilers. As memory/storage has grown languages and compilers have grown in size and complexity. Interpreted languages also needed to be compact so the drives were identical.

Finally at heart good programmers are lazy, and if you can make things easier with simple rules then that is what happened!

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Graham, as you are a very pro-Brexiteer perhaps you could explain two things to me:

a) How can we have an open border, with free movement of people (no checks or controls), but in the words of Theresa May “We will have full control over our borders”?

b) How can we have a Hard Brexit without the EU imposing a border between North & South so breaking the signed agreement between May, Ireland and the DUP.

Something has to give and May has so far acknowledged the need to negotiate.

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JayCeeDee wrote:

Ed P wrote:

Having said that, I think a measure of truth is required in birthdate/age on social media sites such as this. I would not want anyone to think that I was a 16 year old dolly-bird. A 22+++ years old male will do as a tag!

Ed, is that 22 + 22 + 22 + 22??? or is that stretching it too far????

A bit too far fortunately. But I’m still 22 at heart, its just I can no longer see the rest properly without my specs.

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Thanks Lee – nice news to get.

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Not that I fear your motives, just a habit I have acquired over the years. I even lie to my bank about my mother’s maiden name, and first pet. I’m afraid that your system is completely at the mercy of the software you use. Another Word Press screw-up/zero-day, or a new Linux SQL injection code exploit could undo all your good intentions.

For that reason I had actually left my birthday as blank on this site (some sites such as the Brother Printer or Steam registration do not let you do so).

Having said that, I think a measure of truth is required in birthdate/age on social media sites such as this. I would not want anyone to think that I was a 16 year old dolly-bird. A 22+++ years old male will do as a tag!

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Mine is a fake Birthday  as well!

As posted elsewhere, at best I ‘Blair the truth’ in response to nearly every on-line form. However I’m not alone, as studies show that only 30% of people naively tell the truth . Trusting lot are we not.

 

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You are quite correct Richard. I was lucky not to be living in London during The Great Smog of 1952. My memories are some ten years later; but even in that lesser smog, police with torches were leading buses and people were dying by the score. Amazingly trains were running more or less on time on Southern Region. Far better than they do today!

 

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I think it was probably worse in the early 60s. Even sparrows had to walk in some of the thick yellow smogs of those days.

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The Duke wrote:

I’d like the French company that is making them to make the the blue colour of the frence flag. 1.its a nicer colour, and 2 people would lose their collected 51% shit.

Lol?

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Depending on your C++ compiler it may return before you can inspect the value!

You may need to add a do nothing loop such as incrementing a variable and outputting its value. Do this after the Avariable=50 line. Compilers can sometimes be too clever to do what you want!

[edit] actually cout has been around for a long while. Where I am happily willing to admit ignorance is in the subtleties of unicode strings. e.g link. Ascii  and short strings are good enough for my purposes.

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I’m obviously a pedant! In the call by reference example if you set debug going and look at the variable values the value of Avariable in ‘Main’ will change as soon as you execute the first (and only) statement Avariable=50 in the function it never need return.

I’ll agree that there is ambiguity if you are just starting to learn the concept. The question is what I’d call an A* question if you get the correct answer as it demonstrates that a ‘return’ is not required. This could be important if  this was in a real-time application that somehow changed (say) an interrupt.

btw What language are you learning, I do not recognise the syntax.

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I#’d go for  ‘unusual’ software running on all his machines. i.e. something that he always installs/uses that runs on start-up. I’d start with Autoruns on all the affected machines and look for commonalities then go through a process of elimination.

I said ‘unusual’ software as this is not a problem experienced by anyone else. i.e not Windows or the usual Office suites unless he has an HTML or CSS editor running at start-up.

If these do not throw up anything then I agree with Graham – Process Monitor, and start thinking virus/rootkit/Bitcoin miner.

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Good thought, maybe you are using an odd-ball ad-blocker or screen grabber that no one else does. It could just be the way that extension works with (say) WordPress. Try ‘refreshing’ Firefox (or whatever) and see if that has an effect.

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