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Hugh Glaser @hugh.glasers.org · 29/09/2026

Also, engineering balances have changed with time. CPU power has not advanced at the same rate as memory size, for physical reasons. So, algorithms that were obsessed with fitting data in memory, or optimising disk traffic, can be worse now than simpler ones, for practical problem sizes.

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Hugh Glaser @hugh.glasers.org · 29/09/2026

Almost 50 years ago now (really!), I remember being taught sorting & searching algorithms. I quickly realised that while interesting, they were only of theoretical value. The chances of me needing to write a sorting function of my own were already vanishingly small.

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Hugh Glaser @hugh.glasers.org · 23/09/2026

No, that's not the reason 😀

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Hugh Glaser @hugh.glasers.org · 10/07/2026

I never could understand how you managed it:- I suspect your replacement plus their deputies will exhaust their allocation. You may have taken it over from me (via Andy?), when the student numbers were a fraction of their present level; and I only managed by being so jaded I didn't do it properly.

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Hugh Glaser @hugh.glasers.org · 31/05/2026

Anything to avoid marking 😀 But yeah, nice one.

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Hugh Glaser @hugh.glasers.org · 30/01/2026

You still in the airport?

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Hugh Glaser @hugh.glasers.org · 20/01/2026

Is it possible that the students currently living in the area might then stay in the new accommodation, relieving pressure on the existing housing? Just wondering.

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Hugh Glaser @hugh.glasers.org · 24/11/2025

The modern Turing Test: I have to convince Cloudflare I am human. How did we get to a state where the human spends their time waiting for the computer to deign to interact with them, and in a world with "AI"?

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Hugh Glaser @hugh.glasers.org · 17/10/2025

This afternoon, my MP (Liz Jarvis) was in Asda talking with whoever wanted to. When I got to the car, I pondered for a while what I might say to her. After a while I went back in, and just said "More tax for better services" to her assistant, and asked him to pass on the message.

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Hugh Glaser @hugh.glasers.org · 28/09/2025

Go on, Laura, for BBC balance, ask him if the Labour party has policies that he considers 'racist' or 'immoral'. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

Keir Starmer calls Reform migrant policy 'racist' and 'immoral'

The prime minister told the BBC he needed

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Hugh Glaser @hugh.glasers.org · 29/08/2025

...pay the £27.50 to POPLA to adjudicate. Oh, and #EuroCarParks have not written to me to say anything at all - they have simply marked the ticket on their site as paid or withdrawn. Bloody cowboys indeed.

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Hugh Glaser @hugh.glasers.org · 29/08/2025

I did. And then the next thing is that POPLA tell me that #EuroCarParks have "withdrawn the appeal" (which doesn't quite make sense, since I thought it was my appeal!). Anyway, it means that EuroCarParks put all the pressure on me to pay, but then in the end they didn't have to...

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Hugh Glaser @hugh.glasers.org · 29/08/2025

Smart move by #EuroCarParks. They send me a ticket (after ANPR), which I appealed against (I didn't see the sign at the entrance because of foliage). They simply rejected my appeal without really addressing it. So I had to decide whether to risk the extra £40 (£100 from £60) by appealing to POPLA...

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Hugh Glaser @hugh.glasers.org · 13/08/2025

slightly diminish a band Def cat. Damp patch of desert.

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Hugh Glaser @hugh.glasers.org · 06/08/2025

Compared with Eastleigh BC's 2.5%, 6.1%, 1.8%, -1.1%, -6.6%. And also the PCC tax is pretty much twice the size of the BC. So if your worry is about your "Local taxes" (although mine isn't particularly), the PCC has been far more significant than the BC. Am I misunderstanding my bills?

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Hugh Glaser @hugh.glasers.org · 06/08/2025

I've looked it up now :-) My specific question was about what the PCC tax changes have been since she started in what I now see is 2021. They have been (going backwards) 5.4%, 6.3%, 7.0%, 7.0%, 5.0%

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Hugh Glaser @hugh.glasers.org · 05/08/2025

Hey @richardgomer.bsky.social , is this the person who has been in charge of the Hampshire Police and Fire budget that seems to have rocketed over the last few years, from the breakdowns I get sent? Or am I getting it all wrong? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

Solent mayor race: Donna Jones named as first official candidate

Donna Jones is chosen by the Conservatives as its candidate for the Hampshire and Solent region.

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Hugh Glaser @hugh.glasers.org · 11/06/2025

Do you get "documnet" right? ;-)

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Hugh Glaser @hugh.glasers.org · 14/05/2025

Sad. Although I'd be extra impressed if you walked past your car , as I did once on the way to the tube. :-)

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Hugh Glaser @hugh.glasers.org · 01/05/2025

Ah Glad I mentioned them. I’m on an LTE in Kruger at the moment, so can’t easily engage. It was Zuse that reminded me; I think he was one. You could try interviewing Brian Randell about Zuse, he is very illuminating (and has several of his illuminations/paintings iirc always with a story)

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Hugh Glaser @hugh.glasers.org · 01/05/2025

Do you have access to them?

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Hugh Glaser @hugh.glasers.org · 01/05/2025

Hi As I suspect you know, a few decades ago, the Science Museum did a series of interviews with old CSish people, basically to catch them before they died. On cassettes. But by the time I found out about it, they had to admit they hadn’t got the copyright properly, they weren’t selling them.

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Hugh Glaser @hugh.glasers.org · 30/04/2025

"I'm so smart I can tell you ChatGPT doesn't get things right", for example. "I'm so smart I can tell you when and how it is useful to use ChatGPT" is far too hard, and doesn't have the kudos.

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Hugh Glaser @hugh.glasers.org · 18/04/2025

Do yours have a space for asking what was good about the course (useful and important information if you actually want the course to be as good as possible)? I had to argue very hard with my university to get such a field added to ours. That really showed what the mindset was, as you suggest.

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Hugh Glaser @hugh.glasers.org · 21/03/2025

And the biggest increases are always the Police:- over 5% of a bigger proportion (about 12%) every year I remember. But over 70% this year is the County Council; so the local council could add 10% and it would be a 0.6% increase in the overall bill. It would be good if they could, perhaps.

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Hugh Glaser @hugh.glasers.org · 21/03/2025

The media always moan about "Council Tax", as if the money was going to your local council, who do the bins, which are always the pictures. My two *local* councils each take less than *6%* of my council tax. So there is very little they can do to reduce my bill.

The Annual Council Tax for your Property is: % change Amount
Hampshire County Council* 5.0% Inc £2325.31
Hampshire Police & Crime Commissioner 5.4% Inc £397.89
Hants & IOW Fire & Rescue 6.0% Inc £126.88
Eastleigh Borough Council 2.5% Inc £200.00
West End Parish Council 5.0% Inc £192.24
TOTAL £3242.32

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Hugh Glaser @hugh.glasers.org · 26/02/2025

I've discovered, I think, that Firefux doesn't keep logging me out of BlueSky, like Safari did.

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Hugh Glaser @hugh.glasers.org · 16/02/2025

Vance lectures Europe on "democracy". Coming from a country where he thinks that a recent election was "stolen".

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Hugh Glaser @hugh.glasers.org · 05/02/2025

Trump uses FUD and gets inside your OODA Loop.

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Hugh Glaser @hugh.glasers.org · 12/01/2025

OK. How do I stop BlueSky logging my web client out every couple of days? Grrrrrr.

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Hugh Glaser @hugh.glasers.org · 28/11/2024

Sadly. It turns out that she didn't have authority. She is just a typical bully, who should have been called out as such.

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