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by gerdesj 1y ago
Oh FFS, "I've Chatted and stuff" Your Exeter cavern quandary was not exactly sorted. https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/6/research-goblin/#histor... They are quite old and very well docum
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by gerdesj 1y ago
Possibly, but they did manage, without consultants: "Taco Bell achieved the perfect AI Darwin Award trifecta". That's a high score.
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by gerdesj 1y ago
"Taco Bell achieved the perfect AI Darwin Award trifecta:"
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by gerdesj 1y ago
That is pretty daft. Surely, you should always send the intention rather than the mechanism when a dodgy medium is involved! If the medium was ATM or hard wired ethernet then sure why not send button presses. Those are reliable media. The
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by gerdesj 1y ago
It's a silly old meme from the days before Mr Dawkins invented the word meme. We were sadly not past expressions like that in say the 70s or 80s but by the 90s, that phrase was definitely considered ironic (in the modern sense). Back
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by gerdesj 1y ago
Great choice mate. I really must get around to looking into opnsense again. I look after 50 odd pfSense boxes (about half on Netgate gear) across the UK but I am a believer in choice and I remember when opensense sort of split from pfSense
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by gerdesj 1y ago
I seem to recall the BBC have released quite a few sound effects ... ahh yes: https://sound-effects.bbcrewind.co.uk/ There must be a door or two in there.
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by gerdesj 1y ago
"Germany, Italy, India " That's experience and you learned and survived to tell the tale. Its almost as though you are capable of learning how to deal with an unfamiliar environment, and fail safe! I'm a Brit and have d
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by gerdesj 1y ago
No one does FSD yet - properly. It initially seems mad that a human, inside the box can outperform the "finest" efforts of a multi zillion dollar company. The human has all their sensors inside the box and most of them stymied by
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by gerdesj 1y ago
I go for Zwave by choice but Zigbee comes a close second. It does share 2.4GHz with wifi but its many tiny bands fit within the "edges" of the wifi bands. If you stick to 1,6,11 for wifi, Zigbee will co-exist very happily. Even
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by gerdesj 1y ago
Its much less disturbing than living under a flight path to an airport. I actually like the sound of a helo - its variable and interesting, as is a piston powered fixed wing aircraft. Mind you I also lived near RAF, USAAF and Luftwaffe bas
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by gerdesj 1y ago
It Still Does Nothing. The sheer luxury of two B channels at 64kBps each and if you were cunning, the D channel at 16k (I wasn't cunning and didn't bother)! Yay, double phone charges if you raised the second channel. That was a B
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by gerdesj 1y ago
You can't go too far wrong with unbound and it is seriously fast and light. Real men cry into their text editors with BIND and PowerDNS but you do get the whole toy box with these beasties. I've whizzed up many BIND daemons. I o
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by gerdesj 1y ago
I've had mixed results with Chat n OpenSCAD. For my first effort it used BOSL (good skills) but hallucinated functions (bad skills)! It also failed to allow for closing the geometry properly ie adding a tiny epsilon to get unions and
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by gerdesj 1y ago
I live near a helicopter factory and when the spinning towers are in use, you hear all sorts of auditory patterns as you move around the town. When they are test flying - similar and the Police have one and there is an air ambulance too.
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by gerdesj 1y ago
Trends take time to work out. "AI" dives in and disrupts and then it turns out that AI isn't too I. The disrupt phase where HR dumps staff based on dubious promises and directions from above takes a few months. The gradual
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by gerdesj 1y ago
There is rather more to type than the em dash, kicking off with the difference between say a typeface and a font (or fount). Why not get into leading and kerning and the other stuff? Widows and orphans anyone? Getting your knickers in a t
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by gerdesj 1y ago
Chat did work for some operations for me but not many. My screwdrivers, drills, planes, and all the rest don't tell me how to use them and I think that you need to treat LLMs in the same way. They can provide an insight or a prod or wh
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by gerdesj 1y ago
"This can't actually be one of the largest stocks of second-hand books" Any library can be described as a second hand store of books and it seems this one is pretty large! "I wish I could get rid of them all" You co
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by gerdesj 1y ago
Really? I'm not a coder but a sysadmin. 35 years or so. I'm conversant with Perl, Python, (nods to C), BASIC, shell, Powershell, AutoIT (int al) I muck about with CAD - OpenSCAD, FreeCAD, and 3D printing. I'm not a senior de
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by gerdesj 1y ago
Those parts really belong in a museum somewhere because they are an important part of history, irrespective of politics. What happened to them?
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by gerdesj 1y ago
"Colossus was not a computer. It was a key-tester," The original definition of computer was basically a person wot computes (analyzes data and performs arithmetic and so on). That would have mostly involved pencil and paper, fag
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by gerdesj 1y ago
Lovely. Now, what's missing?
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by gerdesj 1y ago
LLMs are not ... well ... I've just tried to get ChatGPT to help me generate a plumbing part that I will 3D print. Bit bizarre but the part in question (which is currently cracked) holds the other part in place and that provides the w
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by gerdesj 1y ago
Bubble goes pop! I'm old enough to remember the global melt down in 2000ish and 2008. Oh and 1991 in the UK - lol, that's when I graduated. Take your money out of AI and stuff it under the mattress (gold if you are a magpie or b
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by gerdesj 1y ago
Bollocks - you are not human, your comment is generated and is really crap. We have a comedian on the circuit in the UK called Henning Wehn. He is German and suitably daft and hilarious.
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by gerdesj 1y ago
Well you will need a particulate detector to determine the problem and then that will inform your solution.
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by gerdesj 1y ago
Sorry? I run an IT company and a lot of my customers have Unifi APs (we sold them). Our in house controller has a lot of sites on it and it must be a good 10 years old now. Its certainly gone through at least three Ubuntu LTSs. I eat ve
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by gerdesj 1y ago
"The documentation on Github is enough, but frustratingly, the failure mode I ran into was the video just… not loading. However, I eventually got it nailed down, and now I have a new camera in Protect." Are you sure you want to go
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by gerdesj 1y ago
Ooh go on, what do they say about Germans? I lived in West Germany for some years back in the day and I don't recall the locals being too shy. Frankly the Germans and the Dutch seemed to have had a rather more ribald sense of humour t

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