gerdesj

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by gerdesj 10mo ago
"I get the biological desire to put food on the table for one's family and therein lies the problem" They don't make money (put bread on the table) by selling Windows any more. That is soooo 2000s. Income is from data m
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by gerdesj 10mo ago
Very kind of you to note a potential en_GB => en_US buggeration.
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by gerdesj 10mo ago
I mentioned the same thing somewhere north of your comment. My wife rocks Arch and could not care less.
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by gerdesj 10mo ago
"The terminal is going to be a non-starter for your average computer user." My wife has no idea what a terminal is and does not care - she rocks Arch and has no idea what that means. The people that attend my uncle's PC clin
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by gerdesj 10mo ago
ReFS riffs on reflinks - take a gander at XFS.
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by gerdesj 10mo ago
Mine was a few years earlier (YoLotD). Sadly, I kept up with the fags until 2018 ...
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by gerdesj 10mo ago
Take a look at "lnav" ...
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by gerdesj 10mo ago
I've just run it against my desktop PC. I had documented everything up to a point on this beatie and then things have got out of hand. I now have all the changes from after I went off piste. What a great tool. Thank you.
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by gerdesj 10mo ago
"laptop has hardware designed to support Linux" I've had Linux running on a variety of laptops since the noughties. I've had no more issues than with Windows. ndiswrapper was a bit shit but did work back in the day. Wh
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by gerdesj 10mo ago
"Totally blinded by Azure and AI and stock price growth." Stock price growth is their core business because that is how large firms operate. MS used to embrace games etc because the whole point was all PCs should run Windows. Now
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by gerdesj 10mo ago
"AI is going to be a highly-competitive" - In what way? It is not a railroad and the railroads did not explode in a bubble (OK a few early engines did explode but that is engineering). I think LLM driven investments in massive DC
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by gerdesj 10mo ago
My first link shows that Bitcoin consumes roughly 40GW and my second link shows that the UK roughly does too. There are a lot of ifs and buts here ... but the amount of power used to support the BT mechanism worldwide is roughly the same as
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by gerdesj 10mo ago
What exactly is "second" place? No-one really knows what first place looks like. Everyone is certain that it will cost an arm, a leg and most of your organs. For me, I think that, the possible winners will be close to fully fund
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by gerdesj 10mo ago
Call it a donut-pi and watch their minds explode. You could also try American pie, apple pie (Hi mom) or perhaps freedom pi. A decent stars and stripes heat sink should be pretty easy to fiddle up, and probably exists already.
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by gerdesj 10mo ago
TIL: https://ccaf.io/cbnsi/cbeci - quite horrifying! EDIT: For comparison: https://gridwatch.co.uk/
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by gerdesj 10mo ago
"Wow, there's a lot of anger in some of these posts." If I was OP I'd retire happy knowing that a very thankless job is well done! Given what it does: the more outrage the better. Projects like Mockito call out the laz
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by gerdesj 10mo ago
I seem to recall that I used Windows 2 on a RM Nimbus 80186 at school around 1984. It was for CAM. Nowadays one of my customers has a sodding great machine that boots DOS 6. To get data files to and from it I use Samba with all the safety
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by gerdesj 10mo ago
Carry on, old boy.
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by gerdesj 10mo ago
"like another company" What kind of org shares cabs? Monster! Your cab's environment should be pretty thermally stable. Your switches are probably venting to the hot isle through their front ports. Thermal expansion of gla
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by gerdesj 10mo ago
The risks were understood (by engineers) and this usage was given a "shelf life". Unfortunately, those risks were put into the "Oh we'll forget about it" or "We'll wait until it looks a bit shifty" c
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by gerdesj 10mo ago
A moot point when the air was often so thick (smog) that it could kill you.
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by gerdesj 10mo ago
"Beats the snot out of escooter" Shit not snot. Please do the job properly! I agree: Autoped is a far better name.
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by gerdesj 10mo ago
S for solidus (Latin again). The pound symbol £ is an L. The names are way older than grammar schools. The way to write and "pronounce" a sum is like this: £2 3/6: "two pounds, three and six". There are lots more
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by gerdesj 10mo ago
I remember when the pound coin was first minted and I am 55 years old. In 1915 or so, a single pound (GBP int al) was a banknote ie paper money and was thus until the coin took over in the '80s I think it was. The pound coin is not ma
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by gerdesj 10mo ago
"Fuel efficient" - that's probably why. If the fuel efficiency more than off sets the additional weight, for range then four stroke might be indicated. There are lots of other factors to consider.
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by gerdesj 10mo ago
Lovely idea but please spare a thought for people using a screen reader! Imagine having ASCII art spelt out to you character by character, line by line. This really is a job for a LLM. With apologies to screen reader users: "space ta
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by gerdesj 10mo ago
Fucked up Braille?
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by gerdesj 10mo ago
Spin it!
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by gerdesj 10mo ago
Errm I think me and my mates count as bootstrappers. Never heard the term before but we have paid off the mortgage on our premises and are decidedly boring. We have three Directors and a slack handful of employees, that varies around 15 to
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by gerdesj 10mo ago
In general people like to answer questions - it makes them/us feel mildly superior - hopefully in a good and positive way. You have to use some judgement on how to approach and engage. Depending on who you are engaging with, a packet

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