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by gerdesj 10mo ago
I have an actual original C-64 from around 1986. I got it recapped a few years back and it worked! Now the floppy and tape drives gather dust: it has USB 8) Oh and I have an original Quickshot II, which still works despite "Daley Tho
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by gerdesj 10mo ago
Sorry? Ethernet has had the concept of full duplex for several decades and I have no idea what you mean by: "hybrid on each end allows the use of the same channel at the same time." The physical electrical connections between a se
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by gerdesj 10mo ago
I think you are confusing network layers and their functionality. "CSMA is no longer necessary on Ethernet today because all modern connections are point-to-point with only two "hosts" per channel." Ethernet really isn&#
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by gerdesj 10mo ago
You probably didn't grow up with horrors like the WordPerfect function key strip or being faced with a keyboard like that on the ZX80/81/Speccy etc.
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by gerdesj 10mo ago
Ahh, my time to apologise for my assumptions. I'm browser on PC/laptop first and rarely use a phone and never for Amazon. I also rock Linux on everything that I can, so my experience will obviously be different on "PC"
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by gerdesj 10mo ago
Why not have a crack with a local LLM or two? You work in an industry with a lot of money involved. Recently Apple have released beasties with up to 512GB of RAM. Apples have unified RAM (both for general use and GPU) so that 512GB looks
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by gerdesj 10mo ago
I (UK based) have pfblocker-ng running at the perimeter with quite a lot of blocking. My browser FF has uBlock Origin and Privacy Badger too. Amazon works fine. I suspect they work along the rather practical lines of: if we can snag your d
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by gerdesj 10mo ago
Fair enough, but I was whittering on about English and not Dansk or Norsk. The empty set should be obvious from context.
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by gerdesj 10mo ago
I am absolutely no expert but I doubt many of the components of this beast are even expressible in anything currently machine readable (perhaps definable is a better word for now). The article clearly states that there are multiple reading
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by gerdesj 11mo ago
A font was the en_US version of fount. A fount was a particular example of a typeface. A typeface is something like TNR or Calibri. They all seem to have been munged into a single set of synonyms except for fount which has been dropped (
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by gerdesj 11mo ago
"it's all theatrics at best" Only IT understand any of this SSL/TLS stuff and we screwed up the messaging. The message has always been somewhat muddled and that will never work efficiently.
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by gerdesj 11mo ago
Hoisted by your own petard ("me old fruit"): "Wait until you learn that most people's writing skills are that of below LLMs" ... went askew at "that of below LLMs". I'm an arse: soz!
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by gerdesj 11mo ago
If AlphaEvolve is: "a quality-diversity search framework for algorithm discovery" then maybe. At the moment I'm mildly skeptical and uncertain of whether to twist or stick.
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by gerdesj 11mo ago
I mashed the button and ended up in a right old mess 8)
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by gerdesj 11mo ago
That sounds a bit complicated and rather weird. I still have my webby assets up with way longer uptimes than the biggies. I don't need internet points. A satisfied PO is what I want to see as a business owner.
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by gerdesj 11mo ago
I'm not a fan of Brexit but it is what it is. I doubt that you are really a fan of all things EU but I am with you on unity being important and I absolutely agree we fucked up that one. I'm pretty sure we mildly screwed our econo
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by gerdesj 11mo ago
Am I bovvered?
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by gerdesj 11mo ago
To form or even to define a relation you need some sort of entity to have a relation with. My wife would have probably gone postal (angry-mad) if I had tried to form an improper relationship with her. It turns out that I needed a concept o
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by gerdesj 11mo ago
"trads and neo-monarchists on the right, and greens and anarcho-primitivists on the left" Where would I find formal definitions of that scatterfest of terminologies? I'd like to engage but I'm not up to speed on the ling
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by gerdesj 11mo ago
Nowadays we (UK) have a notion called "fuel poverty" which is formally defined (1) It is similar to the more generic notion of energy poverty. Basically, if spending out on fuel for heating takes a household below the official po
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by gerdesj 11mo ago
You could also try HMS Victory in the UK or the Vasa in Sweden (other really old ships are available and some are still sailing). You might also note that the inhabitants of Hawaii had to have got there somehow and its 2000 odd miles to wha
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by gerdesj 11mo ago
All of my company's hosted web sites have way better uptimes and availability than CF but we are utterly tiny in comparison. With only some mild blushing, you could describe us as "artisanal" compared to the industrial monstr
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by gerdesj 11mo ago
I think you might be thrashing around 30 samples for a normal distribution and the Central Limit Theorem and accidentally added a zero! (OK, on rereading, you did link to a WP article about CLT, so 30 it is!)
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by gerdesj 11mo ago
These are LLMs - next token guessers. They don't think at all and I suggest that you don't try to get rich quick with one! LLMs are handy tools but no more. Even Qwen3-30B heavily quantised will do a passable effort of translati
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by gerdesj 11mo ago
A vCentre runs one or more datacentres but only for one organisation or org umbrella. A PDM can connect to and control multiple "trusting" parties. I (we) have several customers with PVE deployments and VPNs etc to manage them.
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by gerdesj 11mo ago
I run roughly 30 PVE hosts across several customers (all ex-VMware). Few more to migrate. You can migrate a three node cluster from VMware to PVE using the same hardware if you have a proper n+1 cluster. iSCSI SANs don't (yet) do snap
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by gerdesj 11mo ago
I remember deploying SSL on NetWare in the late 1990s and being given ... something that the US allowed to be exported as a munition! I don't recall the exact details but it was basically buggered - short key length. Long enough to ch
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by gerdesj 11mo ago
I migrated my home router over to Kea and was distinctly unimpressed - it just carried on working 8) I do run a pretty full on pfBlocker-NG. I run quite a few other pfs too (31). At work I have a CARP cluster of two elderly Dell servers w
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by gerdesj 11mo ago
Do you really have one desk per six rooms? That's pretty sparse 8) Now the real issue is: what on earth is a fart pod? Anyway, my (quite literally mine as in I'm the MD) tiddly company still clings to the notion that remote worki
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by gerdesj 11mo ago
Quite - horses for courses. However: you should pick your weapon with some care.

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