"Klingons do not procrastinate – it is a tactical delay."
– Lt. Worf
(ST:TNG 7x02)

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We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. https://signal.org/blog/pdfs/germany-chat-control.pdf

Wer meint, Kürzungen bei den Zahnarztkosten der GK-Versicherten ließen sich problemlos privat absichern, hat einfach keine Ahnung von der Lebensrealität vieler Menschen mit geringem Einkommen. Ein solches Geschenk an die Versicherungswirtschaft hätte massive soziale Folgen.

Intel's Pentium processor (1993) can compute sines, logarithms, and other special functions. To do this, it has a ROM with 304 floating-point constants. I reverse-engineered this ROM and extracted the constants. You can see pi in the ROM, binary 11.001001..., encoded in the transistor pattern. 1/n