Moonie posted:

El Loro posted:

Moonie posted:

El Loro posted:

Someone has now worked out the first 31 trillion digits of pi:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-47524760

 

It would take over 300,000 years for someone to read out those digits.

 

It's Pi Day today because March 14th is 3.14

What about the fastest super computer El? 

The fastest super computer at present can do 143,500,200,795 floating point operations per second. So 31 trillion floating point operations would take about 216 seconds (3½ minutes). But it would take longer than that as to read a single digit would presumably take more than 1 floating point operation.

 

 I’m as baffled, Moonie 

Moonie and Yogi, as you might not know what is meant by floating point operations, here's a wiki article explaining them:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...ing-point_arithmetic
It happens to use pi as an example.

By the way, the acronym for floating point operations per second is FLOPS.

So Moonie's smiley is remarkably appropriate

Yogi19 posted:

Moonie posted:

El Loro posted:

Moonie posted:

El Loro posted:

Someone has now worked out the first 31 trillion digits of pi:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-47524760

 

It would take over 300,000 years for someone to read out those digits.

 

It's Pi Day today because March 14th is 3.14

What about the fastest super computer El? 

The fastest super computer at present can do 143,500,200,795 floating point operations per second. So 31 trillion floating point operations would take about 216 seconds (3½ minutes). But it would take longer than that as to read a single digit would presumably take more than 1 floating point operation.

 

 I’m as baffled, Moonie 

El Loro posted:

By the way, the acronym for floating point operations per second is FLOPS.

 

So Moonie's smiley is remarkably appropriate

El Loro posted:

By the way, the acronym for floating point operations per second is FLOPS.

 

So Moonie's smiley is remarkably appropriate

Goodnight and sweet dreams, Moonie, El and Ros

Hug for any night owls

night yogi Moons EL summer if you pop in

Nighty nite Buddies, sleep well, sweet dreams and have a great day tomorrow  

Good morning everyone

Cloudy here, there may be some rain.

A route has been chosen for the A417 at the dangerous section I've mentioned before:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-...cestershire-47556890
It does mean an end to the Air Balloon pub well known by ramblers on the Cotswold Way. It's believed to be so called as back in 1784 Edward Jenner flew there from Berkeley Castle.

I hope everyone has a good day

Good morning everyone, another miserable morning with driving rain and strong winds, which is a picnic compared to tomorrow according to the forecasts!  I wish we still had TV programmes like Hill Street Blues nowadays.

Enjoy your day everyone

Squiggle, I hope the weather for you turns out to be better than it currently is. At least it does became more settled and calmer from Sunday

I never got round to seeing Hill Street Blues

Here's a clip for a 1954 American TV programme which includes an advert for Hotpoint.

It's poor quality but is of interest as the "Happy Hotpoint" elf is a very early appearance of Mary Tyler-Moore, 17 at the time.

She may have started off small but would eventually become a giant in TV production with her husband Grant Tinker, for instance Hill Street Blues.

Good afternoon a sunny/rainy/hail wild windy day here I’m back home now, the weary traveller has returned lol had a brilliant time  

what have i missed?! How are you all? 

Welcome back, Summer I'm glad you had a brilliant time

All quiet here. Had a phone call from one of those computer scammers. Standard tricks used by them. Claimed that the errors shown on the event viewer were proof that there were problems on my computer. As with all Windows computers there are thousands of red and yellow error messages. Scammers claim this is proof - that's not the case. If there was a problem with your computer, a computer technical person might look at the error logs to see if they could identify the problem but it doesn't mean that all error messages are a sign of a computer problem. For instance many of the error messages on mine are on start up with the media player not connecting with my network streaming connections. As that's because my computer is not networked. Then there are error messages as my ASUS AI charger hasn't made any connections. That's because my ASUS computer isn't connected to anything such as an ipad requiring recharging,

The scammer also tried the ASSOC command trick - the one where they read out to you your computer ID as proof that they've had reports from your computer. That's the long hexadecimal number which starts with 88DCA60. As I've said before it's the same number on every Windows computer.

Have a look 

https://www.gagajoyjoy.com/top...7#592697186109856587

gorgeous moons

night everybody  moons summer if you pop  in - glad you enjoy your enjoy your break  

Good morning everyone

Gloomy weather, breezy, rained overnight and this afternoon & evening is forecast to be wet. Drier weather forecast from tomorrow as the jet stream has moved.

Great photos, Moonie

I hope everyone has a good day

Fankoo both 

Good morning everyone, still very very windy, dry for the moment but I don't think that will last.

Enjoy your day everyone

Back from my shopping unscathed (and not because of the gusts of wind - around 50 mph).

Just after I left the car park to drive home a car whizzed past in front of me at the traffic lights controlled roundabout. Definitely sailed through red lights as the lights in front of me had been green for several seconds so not marginal. There are no cameras at those lights otherwise the driver would have got caught.

Then as I was nearly home I saw a car waiting at the exit of the school, That's on the right hand side of the road. Suddenly it pulled out to my side of the road. If I hadn't done an emergency stop that car would have collided with mine. It missed my car by just over a foot. Clearly the driver had looked to their right but not to their left before pulling out. As it's gloomy I had the lights on so clearly that driver was careless. I think the driver realised that they had made a mistake as they flashed their rear lights later on.

Posted on the BBC site yesterday

Interesting but likely to be misused and become a major nuisance

I'm recording a 1953 film called "The Man Between" today. It's not "Odd Man Out" (though both have James Mason in) and it's not "The Third Man" although both are set in post-war Europe and concern shady characters. All three films were directed by Carol Reed and have similarities so a sort of trilogy.  "The Man Between" doesn't have the classic status of the other two but I'm watching it to tick off my list of Carol Reed "Man" films. The other "Man" films by him are "Our Man in Havana" and "The Running Man" which I've also seen so it completes the set

El Loro posted:

Posted on the BBC site yesterday

 

aww this is so cute love it

El Loro posted:

Back from my shopping unscathed (and not because of the gusts of wind - around 50 mph).

 

Just after I left the car park to drive home a car whizzed past in front of me at the traffic lights controlled roundabout. Definitely sailed through red lights as the lights in front of me had been green for several seconds so not marginal. There are no cameras at those lights otherwise the driver would have got caught.

 

Then as I was nearly home I saw a car waiting at the exit of the school, That's on the right hand side of the road. Suddenly it pulled out to my side of the road. If I hadn't done an emergency stop that car would have collided with mine. It missed my car by just over a foot. Clearly the driver had looked to their right but not to their left before pulling out. As it's gloomy I had the lights on so clearly that driver was careless. I think the driver realised that they had made a mistake as they flashed their rear lights later on.

you were very lucky EL thank  goodness you reacted in time

night everybody summer if you pop in

Good morning everyone

Some sunshine here, less windy than recent days, weather seems more settled now though there may be some showers.

Thanks Ros It's not often that I have to do a real emergency stop. I think if the first incident had resulted in an accident the druver who went through the red lights would be regarded as dangerous whereas the one where I had to stop the other driver would be regardless as careless,

I hope everyone has a good day

Good morning a sunny start here, much better than yesterday. Work has been busy, and I think I’ve caught up on enough sleep now just bookkeeping to do later and then I’m free to enjoy the evening. A walk with bramble & friends is definitely top of today’s activities (after yoga & breakfast, of course ) 

El, I’m really glad you didn’t end up colliding with that car, and that they at least realised they’re mistake and apologised. I’m glad you’re alright  

Thanks Summer. I hope you have a nice walk and that the ground isn't too soggy

Good morning everyone, nice to see some blue sky for a change, hopefully the week ahead is a much nicer one weatherwise.

Enjoy your day everyone

Squiggle, I concur, hopefully the weather for the coming week will be better than it had been

At church this morning just before the service started the organist was playing some music as usual. Someone wondered what the music was. So I told her it's St Patrick's Day and the organist was playing the Londonderry Air (Danny Boy)

Happy St Patrick's Day everyone

Evening all 

Haven’t read back yet, hope everyone is well? 

Goodnight and sweet dreams, Ros 

Hug for any night owls

sweet dreams yogi, I hope you had a fab weekend  

i hope everyone had a lovely day, I enjoyed the scenery today, and the very long hot bath after the walk  

El Loro posted:

At church this morning just before the service started the organist was playing some music as usual. Someone wondered what the music was. So I told her it's St Patrick's Day and the organist was playing the Londonderry Air (Danny Boy)

 

Happy St Patrick's Day everyone

singing that ATM with choir 2 and sang it at the churches 40th anniversary with a  primary school and a male voice choir

night yogi and summer

Good morning everyone

Rather cloudy here and may have some more rain though not a lot. Even a small amount will make it the wettest month in my area since May last year.

Yogi, all is well

Summer, I'm glad you had a good walk yesterday

I hope everyone has a good day

Ros, my church could have had "Lord of All Hopefulness" or "Be Thou my Vision" yesterday but didn't. They are set to Slane which is my favourite of Irish melodies for hymns. Slane is a folksong named after the Hill of Slane where St Patrick lit an Easter fire in defiance of a pagan king.