Topic

Computer Science

A collection of 3 issues

Computer Security Versus Actual Computer Use

At what point do our computers spend most of the time keeping us "safe" vs actually doing the work we bought them for? This question has been popping into my mind more and more lately, most times when I'm using a Windows machine or helping someone who does. It also

Inaccurate Results From Floating Point Arithmetic (JavaScript)

This post was originally supposed to be a quick note about rounding in JavaScript. Further research into the scenario I describe below lead me deep into the land of floating point arithmetic and loss of precision. While running testing for a financial application , I realized some automatically calculated balance totals

Some Unicode Notes

Update: I added another useful post about Unicode thanks to this [https://twitter.com/iStarr/status/1195698464623079424] tweet. Every now and again I find myself reading up on character sets, usually when I'm doing some kind of heavy text processing. When I first started out programming I used to tell