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by gerdesj 1y ago
Us Britons have managed to cause some remarkably odd outcomes, way beyond the usual Empire bollocks and this is an absolute belter. Welsh is a Brythonic language, which is the most common class of languages spoken across what is now the UK(
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by gerdesj 1y ago
Usual tribal bollocks in the comments. Personally, I generally rock Apache but Traefik, Caddy, ngnix and co are all superb projects. If you are going to get tribal about web servers, I suggest you think really hard about your career choice.
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by gerdesj 1y ago
Grand daughter is rocking a customer cast off laptop. I was asked for help when the first lock down for covid was announced in the UK. I slapped on Kubuntu and an OpenVPN connection back to my home pfSense router on it, so I could manage
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by gerdesj 1y ago
"I agree, IKEA instructions are great" They are until you hit one for something that is so simple it does not really need instructions, then you will end up in a tail spin! We bought a window shade puller thing and it had instruc
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by gerdesj 1y ago
I'm old enough to remember when the web didn't exist ... and when I dumped Altavista and Ask Jeeves and co for the cool kids: Google. I'm fucking livid. Well actually: mildly unimpressed. The cool kids rarely last as such an
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by gerdesj 1y ago
Quite. Its just so.
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by gerdesj 1y ago
I'm not American and I really do know what I'm doing when I'm taking le pise. You'll probably be more likely to hear "viva los Frenchies" from Brits confusing Spanish with French. To us Germanics, you Romantic
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by gerdesj 1y ago
I'm sharpening my biro even as I type ...
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by gerdesj 1y ago
There are times when an exhaustive and formal definition of a word is not required. This is one of them. However, I am aware that for some people, it can be annoying when someone else (me in this case) is seemingly lazy or just plain wrong
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by gerdesj 1y ago
An octet is a byte but I get the point - it's when you use a word in context. I find it fascinating how you slam words together - who cares about "correct"? Is there really a correct way to program in C++, in both French and
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by gerdesj 1y ago
Well, I was born in black and white. As a lad in the UK in the '70s, we had three channels on the goggle box - BBC1 and 2 and ITV, which was regional. If you lived in the right place you could get two ITV regions equally badly. You
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by gerdesj 1y ago
Good job. When you said "in French" ... well, "IS_VALIDE" is quite something to see! It seems you are fluent in Franglais - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franglais . I have only respect for someone
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by gerdesj 1y ago
My Seic MG4 has volume +/- physical buttons under the touch screen as well as the usual steering wheel controls but all air conn controls are on the touch screen which works at any speed. Quite a lot of the safety features rely on the
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by gerdesj 1y ago
I remember the good old days of xfree86. It was arse but mostly worked OK on a PC. Then this blasted Xorg thing rocked up and it was worse for a while! Nowadays I can barely remember the last time I had to create an xorg.conf. Wayland ha
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by gerdesj 1y ago
The embossed numbers were used to transfer the details quickly and reliably. A roller would apply pressure to press special paper onto upraised letters and numbers. The seller would hand write the amount and the buyer would sign. Two cop
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by gerdesj 1y ago
It seems we have an agreement on this. There is no need to gild the lily! I also went to a lot more schools than normal, thanks to living in multiple countries and my dad (army) moving every 18 months or so! sohcahtoa is nearly a word.
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by gerdesj 1y ago
For me, UK, posh school, 1980s it was just "sohcahtoa" - easy enough to be its own mnemonic. No need to gild a lily. Your order is cosine, sine, tangent - CST. A quick look at the other examples here seem to prefer SCT - as do I
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by gerdesj 1y ago
rofl! Love it!
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by gerdesj 1y ago
"And let's not pretend users aren't already sending all the hostnames they are visiting to their selected DNS server. Why is that somehow okay, but OCSP not?" Running your own DNS server is rather easier than messing wit
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by gerdesj 1y ago
This is a novel material with a set of properties and a production "story" that looks rather cool - recycled vines. If those parameters meet the requirements for a material that you need to use then cool. Use it. I don't se
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by gerdesj 1y ago
"In conclusion: " "...in particular in the U.S., but probably across Europe as well. ..." The world is rather larger than the US and Europe. I physically endure myopia and frankly Mr Witkin seems to figuratively suffer
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by gerdesj 1y ago
Scottish bloke rocks up to the wrong wedding, simple mistake. Top thread on HN riffs on Catalan independence. To be fair, Scotland and Catalonia both cite each other as exemplars. For me, I'm fighting for Wessex's independence fr
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by gerdesj 1y ago
Were they 80486 or i486 8) SX or DX? My first "PC" was a Sinclair ZX80. I got my soldering iron out. Much later on (1986ish) my Dad bought a Commodore 64, unfortunately he plugged the power lead into the video socket, when me an
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by gerdesj 1y ago
I'd call that an "indefensible argument". That motte and bailey thing sounds like an embellishment.
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by gerdesj 1y ago
"Essentially a motte-and-bailey" A M&B is a medieval castle layout. Those bloody Norsemen immigrants who duffed up those bloody Saxon immigrants, wot duffed up the native Britons, built quite a few of those things. Something
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by gerdesj 1y ago
Please expand your thesis.
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by gerdesj 1y ago
"He also claimed the company failed to remedy the hacking and takeover of more than 100,000 accounts each day, ignoring his pleas and proposed fixes and choosing instead to prioritize user growth." There is no oversight of these m
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by gerdesj 1y ago
"When it comes to multiway extension leads - people in the UK are sometimes told it's bad to "overload" sockets but have only a vague understanding of what that means, so some people are reluctant to use them." To b
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by gerdesj 1y ago
In 55 years I've never managed to do that, nor has anyone else I know. Plugs normally stay in the wall socket because they have a switch - each wall socket for general use must have a switch. The switch is quite hefty and very obviou
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by gerdesj 1y ago
"encyclopedic knowledge" Have you just hallucinated that?

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