gerdesj

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by gerdesj 1mo ago
Quite right but it would be nice if the kids would invent their own things instead of whining about how expensive doing "boomer things" is nowadays! Where are your modern alternative festis or something else? Where is the the mod
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by gerdesj 1mo ago
Fuck all. Your point is what exactly?
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by gerdesj 1mo ago
The article simply states "we must comply with some regs" and nothing else of substance. There is no indications of what registration implies nor what packaging is actually required. We get this: "That’s because one of the p
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by gerdesj 1mo ago
It was the '80s so safety razor blades were available but in a posh public school (UK version) aged ~17, compasses were everywhere and large old style razor blades were not - the modern style razor with one or two thin blades was a thi
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by gerdesj 1mo ago
Quite. I was a VMware fanboi (25+ years, man and boy) I still look after a few VMware estates and a lot of Proxmox ones (that used to run VMware). Hilariously, VMware is described as "enterprise class", which I can only conclud
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by gerdesj 1mo ago
Have a look at this: https://ukcalculator.com/barrister-fees-calculator.html It is for the UK but no doubt m'learned friends in the US can command even higher fees. Try grabbing a KC for five days, civil/commercia
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by gerdesj 1mo ago
Ubuntu is really polished these days. I rock Kubuntu myself and just migrated my Dad to it from Win 10 (no Win 11 on that box). I have two members of staff who have asked me to migrate them over. I just need to get "drive mappings&qu
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by gerdesj 1mo ago
Come up to the lab and see what's on the slab. RIP
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by gerdesj 1mo ago
IT is a bit of a journey (as is life). I started off with a ZX80 kit and some bluetac ... I've lost count of how many interfaces I've had to fenangle to get a job done. For 20 odd years I rocked Gentoo as my daily driver but my
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by gerdesj 1mo ago
No need for funky stuff, just do the classic (lol) Young's slits experiment which should be more than enough oddness for anyone. I was shown it at school, using microscope glass slides that we waved over a Bunsen burner running cold, t
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by gerdesj 1mo ago
You start with not installing Prometheus! Prom. is a full on stats grabber and display system with knobs on. This is a single system effort and at 5MB RAM is rather tiddly and surely counts as minimal overhead. It could probably send the
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by gerdesj 2mo ago
"puzzling than pellucid" Pellucid might be cromullant but it ain't pervasive. I have never heard that word and I've heard quite a few. If I had to guess: it might be American (US) in situ wankery only, for the use of.
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by gerdesj 2mo ago
I'm with you. That is quite a dense paper. I nearly made it through the first line, OK, sentence of what looks like the Intro, which doesn't bother introducing itself and isn't actually the introduction which occurs later. I
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by gerdesj 2mo ago
Have you no mercy within you ... you ... web developer.
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by gerdesj 2mo ago
vscode server and links2 probably wont cut it 8)
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by gerdesj 2mo ago
The <blink> tag's spiritual successor.
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by gerdesj 2mo ago
I was just updating a Proxmox cluster from v8 to v9 and had time on my hands and 15-30 mins after the models appeared for general download I had an initial pelican effort in .svg format. I switch off reasoning by default and for starters I
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by gerdesj 2mo ago
You could run a line overhead on pylons and put a pick up on a pole on the cars. A smaller version of these things: https://sandtoft.org/wp/
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by gerdesj 2mo ago
My wife is an Angry Bird 8)
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by gerdesj 2mo ago
Perhaps. However, look at the horrific costs of going to a gig these days. (My eyes are bent, my back is dim etc) I recall going to a few gigs back in the day. Iron Maiden headlining, with I think Anthrax. Wembley Arena (London, UK), 19
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by gerdesj 2mo ago
This para is a salutary lesson for all of us: "This is not a New Zealand quirk. It is the local edge of a global collapse. Pitchfork, the most influential music publication in the world, was folded into GQ in 2024 and its editor-in-chi
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by gerdesj 2mo ago
(I see you use another quoting style, so I'll try to keep my language to the point) I only heard about the term tinnitus as a 'teen or perhaps later. ENT: Ear, Nose and Throat - a medical specialism. My earliest memories are from
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by gerdesj 2mo ago
"Now you get the same Weather app in about 130MB of RAM" What a wonderful world we have created where the fix for a 1GB RAM guzzler reduces it to a mere 130MB. Now I could start off with my old ZX80 or even my C64 (which is doing
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by gerdesj 2mo ago
I've had it all my life. I'm 55. Mine is bearable and generally I don't notice it. Mine was caused by "glue ear" or more likely the operations to "cure it", which caused ear drum scarring and what not.
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by gerdesj 2mo ago
"My phone is a server now" - OP's choice is a subtle one. By saying "my server is now ..." implies a change of server platform to a phone but not where it came from. Your offering: "my phone is a server now&quo
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by gerdesj 2mo ago
My vague equivalent of the pelican riding a bicycle test (for a local model without internets) is to ask it: "Where is Yeovil"? I don't expect a totally accurate answer for obvious reasons but I do enjoy watching the accurac
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by gerdesj 2mo ago
I'm 55 years old. My eyes are not what they used to be and neither are my glasses. I also own a copy of "Usage and Abusage" but I'll pass on that. Click on story link. My laptop renders a page - OK its black text o
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by gerdesj 2mo ago
I had a bash with that paper. It is pure and utter tosh - I started with the ... start and swiftly moved to 6. Conclusion. "Thinking like an attacker is a skill rightly valued among defenders." and "Attacking as a business m
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by gerdesj 2mo ago
Just to re-iterate the point: Whenever the handwaving starts around a discussion relating to a NP hard problem, I find it useful to imagine a Canadian bloke (MHRIP) in a red top, with a ... Scottish accent ... saying: "Ye cannae break
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by gerdesj 2mo ago
"Any computable problem will eventually fall to computers." By definition. Its those pesky NP jobbies that get in the way.

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