gerdesj

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by gerdesj 5d ago
Ye is really Þe (Þ = thorn) and it seems that printers, back in the day, used y instead, probably to save money. So it was probably considered old school when printing became popular and wasn't worth getting excited about. Agricola mea
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by gerdesj 5d ago
English isn't the only language that uses the Roman alphabet (which I'm pretty sure is named after the first two Hebrew letters and not old Greek). English is not Hungarian, where each sound has a glyph with a diacritic to adjust
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by gerdesj 9d ago
One of our customers decided to go for off site backups with us - they had been a customer for 15 odd years for other services. Backups are not our core business, its one of the services and I got around to setting them up sooner rather th
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by gerdesj 9d ago
I stared at my keyboard for bloody ages and came up with || instead of m. nob end!
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by gerdesj 9d ago
Try running a business on that basis - where do the restores come from? 8) We charge our customers for backup storage by volume and that includes an annual demonstration of recovery. We fire up some or all of their systems on our gear in i
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by gerdesj 9d ago
Not too sure here. I use quite a few commas, too. I suspect it was done old school: Written by Stephen and passed to a LLM to fill in all those links and other garnish and then passed back for final polish by Stephen. That's how I d
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by gerdesj 9d ago
Spinal Tap's "put it up to 11". My laptop (Kubuntu) has volume controls that allow me to override 100% and take it to 150%. I can wind it up to 15! \||/ (is there an official ASCII art four finger devil's horns)
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by gerdesj 10d ago
The Union flag is a bit of a pain! Notice how there are thick and thin white stripes. When I was a lad, it was a given that in an emergency you would fly your flag upside down. 50 odd years later, I note that hardly any Brit owns or has e
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by gerdesj 11d ago
This scheme is OK but not OK. You note the Brazil flag and that's a great example along with the likes of the UK and the US too. The Brazilian flag is nominally "quite" simple: Green with a yellow/gold parallelogram&#x2
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by gerdesj 11d ago
A jack is a flag flown from a jackstaff, wot is found at the back of a ship or boat. The UK flag is called the Union Flag (it's a flag and it is a union of various flags and possibly nations too!) but let's face it, given how many
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by gerdesj 12d ago
I suppose the obvious question is: Are you actively profiting from Adsense? If yes, then ... you are profiting from ... that shite. You must be OK with that and it does sound like you are actively complicit with it, despite your protestat
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by gerdesj 12d ago
I lived through roughly the latter half of the cold war and both of my parents were soldiers. I lived in West Germany etc. No we have not escaped the nuclear thing. If anything, the current Russian tzar is rather more unhinged than any of
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by gerdesj 13d ago
"I find it really strange the way “peer-reviewed” is used by the general public as some gold standard of truth." OK but this member of the general public has at least subscribed to New Scientist since 1987, nine O levels, two A le
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by gerdesj 13d ago
Bloody 'eck. This sounds like a chat around the back of the bike sheds off of the '70's onwards. Yes, apple pips do have a tiny amount of cyanide in them (but why) This is a from a reasonable source and relates to cherries:
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by gerdesj 14d ago
LG TVs boot Linux and have plenty of capabilities. Why would they not ... take a look around at the environment ... to best enhance ... your errr experience. LG are amongst equals here. I've seen devices (TVs/cameras) do ping sw
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by gerdesj 14d ago
I don't normally wear a tin foil hat but you never know!
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by gerdesj 14d ago
"It's formalized in Lean, isn't it?" If that's the current burden of proof required in your world for maths then that's fine! 't'ain't in my world: I want to see peer reviewed and published. Su
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by gerdesj 14d ago
Testing ... testing 1-2-3
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by gerdesj 14d ago
I suggest that Google should be doing that job for you. It is absolutely ridiculous that you have been either victim shamed, blamed or simply neglected by Google into doing it yourself. In a mall, you expect to see mall cops ... where are t
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by gerdesj 16d ago
Ye domesday weapon will not be a disenchanted teenager whipping up COVID-19 variants (whatever that means) and spraying them on people. The real deal needs a lab messing around with viruses and whatever happened a few years ago ... and it d
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by gerdesj 16d ago
Somehow I manage it for quite a few domains. You have to do email due-dil and off you trot. Gmail, MS and co really do respect the rules in my estimation and don't simply dump email out of spite. If you go in with at least everything u
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by gerdesj 17d ago
My C64 is going to absolutely smash this and my dog (Darby) is a frequent barker too! I'll vibe up an abacus emulator as a PWA.
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by gerdesj 18d ago
I started migrating my customers from VMware a good three years ago. It does help that I have thirty years Linux experience compared to the paltry twenty five or so of VMware (which was RedHat plus stuff back in day) I also have rather a lo
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by gerdesj 19d ago
Windows does care about file extensions but is mildly embarrassed about it, hence the "show" default that has existed from Win 8 (?) onwards. Linux and co generally work with magic bytes which is just another way of doing file for
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by gerdesj 21d ago
Yes, and I said its a limit of the implementation and not the model.
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by gerdesj 22d ago
shhh ATDT&L0&M0
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by gerdesj 22d ago
Their first line is TL;DR!
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by gerdesj 22d ago
128k context is not a limit of the model, that's a limit of implementation: "Context Length: 262,144 natively and extensible up to 1,000,000 tokens." https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
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by gerdesj 22d ago
I (we) run Qwen3.8-27B-FP8 on a DGX Spark box - that's roughly £4000 of hardware. I did benchmark it in various ways and it runs quite well but it is a quantised jobbie and 1.5k t/s is also rather faster than anything I can possib
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by gerdesj 25d ago
Mate ... How many people are engineers, technicians, mildly interested, not fussed or call the internet "Facebook"? IPv4 without NAT was fucked at the design stage. To be fair: Who knew? I was asked by my employer a while back to

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