gerdesj

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by gerdesj 7mo ago
Insignificant is its own minima (its an absolute) and doesn't need qualification. You're not from these parts, are you?
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by gerdesj 8mo ago
Please quote your sources regarding monkey and ape intelligence with regards dead ends (whatever that means), wet blanket. Please also note you are just a wet blanket and not the wet blanket - that epithet is not normally sought after.
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by gerdesj 8mo ago
"I have a few observations about this article." I have a few observations about this comment. Generally use whatever works to do the job. Do think about security, so if you end up streaming stuff across the internet using scp rea
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by gerdesj 8mo ago
"(almost) everyone agrees that quantum computers should work" is what I was commenting on. It seems I touched a nerve!
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by gerdesj 8mo ago
I live a bit north of Whistler. BC is rather larger than the UK but it is very roughly the same in north/south extent. Yeovil (Somerset) is about the same lat as Calgary, next door to you. Unfortunately we live on an oblate spheroid
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by gerdesj 8mo ago
Surely your laptop has a mic on it and probably a camera. It also has blueteeth, wifi and stuff. Your phone has much the same and can act as a proxy to whatever is missing on your laptop and vice versa. Obviously, getting your laptop to
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by gerdesj 8mo ago
Credo.
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by gerdesj 8mo ago
Hmmm. OK. Chris Barrie's (Rimmer in Red Dwarf) old man was in the (British) army and I remember my parents mentioning they met him at one of their mess dinners. I could go on 8)
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by gerdesj 8mo ago
OK so Action. I may have got the steps wrong but I do recall that the Action icon was again to the left of the Print text that performed the actual print. Again, why does the UI switch from icons to text arbitrarily? If Action is Action th
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by gerdesj 8mo ago
I recently had to get printing working for a family member on an Apple tablet. I'm not an Apple jockey so it took me a while to sort out and I've being using computers since 1980 and consulting since 1995. You tap an icon that lo
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by gerdesj 8mo ago
Don't be daft. gopher and wais are just protocols and via telnet you got a menuing system in what we call a TUI nowadays. I'm not sure which part of the chicken you are trying to push the eggs back into but please don't.
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by gerdesj 8mo ago
Craig Charles nicked my lighter in Oscar's nightclub in Plymouth in roughly 1991. I wouldn't have minded but it was my Dad's Zippo (RAOC, 7th/11th Armoured Brigade). He asked for a light, wandered off with it and then
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by gerdesj 8mo ago
I found it via gopher and wais - I can't remember which one did what, it was a fair few years ago. I telnetted from my PC to a VAX, then to a X.25 PAD, then onto a Janet system, then to somewhere in the US and then to CERN. Eventually
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by gerdesj 8mo ago
That's rather sad, its just a museum exhibit about the www, so prohibition might look like a pathetic attempt at revisionism. What is DU?
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by gerdesj 8mo ago
We used telnet. There were no graphics per se. Before www the "interactive" internet was gopher and wais and co. Navigation was moving a cursor around to highlight points of interest, some of which would be links to further stuf
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by gerdesj 8mo ago
We have a single kdbx with nearly 7000 entries. It is about 45MB at the moment with very few text docs in it. It once got to over 100MB when I found people using it as a doc store but it had a bit of a clear out a few years back.
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by gerdesj 8mo ago
Right: Dear Mr eigen-vector - allow it to be Frozen themed! Ideally add a crappy MIDI style "Let it go" sound track on a loop with a note missing and for perfect torture - shift the notes 1/16 or so of a tone. You can of c
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by gerdesj 8mo ago
It probably is somewhat LLM prompted but is that a bad thing? I have a business partner who sounds like a TV evangelist when it comes to vibe coding but if he gets results then I am all in. He has got quite a lot of results in a few months
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by gerdesj 8mo ago
OK, rustup etc installed and it looks amazing and there is lots of great stuff in the initial view - I'm investigating "Weird stuff". I completely get where you are going with this tool and I think you have absolutely nailed
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by gerdesj 8mo ago
I was with your parent until I remembered I haven't actually given it a go! In my defense I have a low five digit Slashdot ID (and I lurked for some years before signing up) so if anyone can comment without actually reading the OP, le
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by gerdesj 8mo ago
"we need to rethink how we interact online" I don't have a TikTok account, never have and I doubt I ever will. Am I missing anything? I gave up fags (cigarettes) around eight years ago. Would you like some ideas for coping
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by gerdesj 8mo ago
I beg to differ. I'm 55. Let's go back to say around 1994/5. I've just got a job as the first dedicated IT bod for a pie factory near Plymouth (Devon not MA)! Win 3.11 was pretty much everywhere and was almost reliabl
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by gerdesj 8mo ago
You say dated and I say useful. Who is "right"? Me: I started off with the likes of Wordperfect and Wordstar, Lotus 123 and Quatro Pro, Harvard Graphics, and rather a lot more and that's just on MS's efforts. I'v
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by gerdesj 8mo ago
"You are running version 7.0" - why not try some screenshots from this decade? I have version 25.8.4.2 running here. It looks rather better and most importantly offers me the choice of a ribbon or not and many other choices rathe
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by gerdesj 8mo ago
In 1992ish I worked at RNEC Manadon (UK, Devon). I was asked by my boss to investigate this new www thing. I telnetted to the nearest VAX from my Win 3.1 PC. I then telnetted to the X.25 PAD and used that to go via the US to Switzerland a
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by gerdesj 8mo ago
I'm pretty close to your approach too. I rather like lights, water features etc just switching themselves on and off as required. I use the UI to go off piste for me only and not for the wife (at home) or employees (at work) HA'
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by gerdesj 8mo ago
My LE experience (post HTTP-01 and now DNS-01) - its a bit of a palava. I don't have to open port 80 which is nice for ... security audits but gains zero security benefit. I have a PowerDNS server running locally with a static IPv4 ad
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by gerdesj 8mo ago
When you delve into real domain specific knowledge, surprises often surface and it turns out that what you might think is a simple thing is actually rather complicated. I'm mildly surprised at exactly how successful ISBNs are. I worke
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by gerdesj 8mo ago
I used to be a GH fanboi. Why not - very convenient ... errm and that's it. I now run a local Gitea. Its rather more performant and uptime is rather better too! I have no idea why on earth I even considered using GH in the first plac
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by gerdesj 8mo ago
Wait around five years and then prompt: "Vibe me Windows" and then install your smart new double glazed floor. There is definitely something useful happening in LLM land but it is not and will never be AGI. Oooh, let me dive in w

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