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by gerdesj 9mo ago
I'm not a fan either (and don't bother with it) but TikTok and co try to prey on your ... sorry try to show you stuff that they think you want to see, indexed on advert spend and a few other factors that will maximise advert spend
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by gerdesj 9mo ago
"where we might as well save the bandwidth" I come from a world (yesteryear) where a computer had 1KB of RAM (ZX80). I've used links with modems rocking 1200 bps (1200 bits per second). I recall US Robotics modems getting t
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by gerdesj 9mo ago
You might like to note that Florence Nightingale largely invented the concept of effective treatment of broken soldiers and she was from these parts. You might like to ask this chap: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_
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by gerdesj 9mo ago
I'd give the dramas a miss mate and stick to boring old history or efforts to try and describe what happened in the past, with evidence. This article is in the second camp. The article is describing an "early" veteran's
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by gerdesj 9mo ago
"Kip (meaning "grammatical mood" in Turkish)" I'm not sure what a grammatical mood is, so I tried a couple of well known translation services and got: kip == "mode". However big G did also manage "mo
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by gerdesj 9mo ago
"A full postcode is often much less than a single street." My business has its own unique postcode and so does next door! Between us we cover roughly three acres. Our place is one building with parking and a fair bit of greenery
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by gerdesj 9mo ago
16 does not define "kids". I recall going to a Subway in TX some years ago and making some slightly risque remarks - we are Brits (ooh er missus). We were mildly scolded that "minors are present". The minor in question
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by gerdesj 9mo ago
I'm glad you have a stack that works for you. The great thing is we have choice and it was not always so. I suggest that you be careful of the DevOps way . Sometimes a "pet" is the way to go, especially if you only have o
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by gerdesj 9mo ago
"What I really wanted is a web interface which will just show me EVERYTHING it knows about the system in a form of charts, graphs, so I can just skim through it and check if everything allright visually, without using the shell and eac
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by gerdesj 9mo ago
>Oh, the other day I had just 70 `iptables -m set --match-set` rules, and did you know how apparently inefficient source/destination address hashing algorithm for the set match is?! It was debugged with perf as well! >I'm ta
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by gerdesj 9mo ago
To be fair, turning it off and on again is unreasonably effective. I recently diagnosed and fixed an issue with Veeam backups that suddenly stopped working part way through the usual window and stopped working from that point on. This part
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by gerdesj 9mo ago
I fail to understand how your approach is different to your parent. perf is a shell tool. iptables is a shell tool. sshguard is a log reader and ultimately you will use the CLI to take action. If you are advocating newer tools, look into
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by gerdesj 9mo ago
OK so you know how it goes in poker and I should probably read the literature ... How much of a session is based on "reading players" vs "playing the odds"? What I am getting at, is how different is poker than say roulet
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by gerdesj 9mo ago
One that misses a "u", not that the buggers themselves had one!
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by gerdesj 9mo ago
... and yet somehow I have muddled along running an IT company for 25 years (I'm the MD) and I have a fair idea about finances, including surviving some rather unpleasant financial environments that have rocked up over those years. One
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by gerdesj 9mo ago
You failed to check the terms of my loan and assumed it was on an interest basis. I literally told you I borrowed 100 and promised to pay 110. I also failed to note a term and you also assumed there was one. I do mention interest later o
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by gerdesj 10mo ago
Great stuff. I've just installed it and tested it on a link from a HN topic which worked exactly as advertised.
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by gerdesj 10mo ago
Swabs and a microscope. Oh and a degree in biology might help!
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by gerdesj 10mo ago
You are fixating on one tiny point which isn't really that important within OP's ... errm "opus". Why not critique the entire work? Anyway: I borrow 100 from someone. I am now in debt and they are in credit - to balance
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by gerdesj 10mo ago
Blimey! After I engaged reader mode, all was revealed 8) The "spider" and the wandering particles are funky but everything else in gthe presentation conspires to exclude granddad (who has rather shite eyesight these day
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by gerdesj 10mo ago
Language cannot be decoupled from what it is trying to work with. It is a tool! We can manipulate the air in such a way with our mouths that ears can hear. I don't think there is anything wrong with allowing a small amount of "wo
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by gerdesj 10mo ago
You need to shoot the people who are feeding them - that's the logical solution to the problem you posed 8) Their natural predators are now cars because that is how things are now. An environment is whatever it is at a point in time.
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by gerdesj 10mo ago
I have noticed that the young 'uns are quietly rebelling against the way things are. This is another example. OP is considering going off social grid as they understand it ... OK, dumping doom-scrolling and sitting in a cafe alone and
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by gerdesj 10mo ago
"Deer have become almost a nuisance species closer in to Chicago." Bloody locals, pissing around as though they own the place. Let's blast them to Kingdom Come ... hmmm tree huggers and kumbaya. You've actually seen wil
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by gerdesj 10mo ago
I think we can agree that they are awful examples! The problem is, that when you try to reduce an example of "bad" english to the bare bones (for clarity), you often end up with quite legitimate language. Even in Latin the occasio
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by gerdesj 10mo ago
"Man dog walk. Boy biscuit eat. Girl throw ball." are held up as examples of incorrect english, which is largely fair. However, none of those examples are actually ambiguous. I'm pretty sure that those examples translated wo
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by gerdesj 10mo ago
Although there was an official "vowel shift", vowels have always been a bit shifty or even just downright naughty.
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by gerdesj 10mo ago
I remember when "Warty 40" was invented and largely supplanted Warhammer itself. I remember Citadel Miniatures and (A)D&D 1st editions, not to mention Traveler, Runequest, Tunnels and Trolls, Car Wars and many more. I was pr
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by gerdesj 10mo ago
That beast must surely require an orangutan to play it properly! Six manuals and the rest means that you don't exactly play it, more like you dance on it. Whacking out something complicated, written by Bach, on that thing is going to
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by gerdesj 10mo ago
Class B or the 12 block is 172.16.0.0/12. So: 10/8, 172.16/12, 192.168/16.

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