gerdesj

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by gerdesj 1y ago
"K and S and are not calculable" S can't be arsed to define itself. K is a measure of s (an object). What on earth is S? Is it the result of using Solomonoff induction ... on a hypothesis based on K? Then we suddenly get t
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by gerdesj 1y ago
When enough people don't want to do it anymore. Feel free to step up, live with email patches, and add to the numbers of those who don't like it and say so. Why is it archaic if it works? I get there might be other ways to do pa
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by gerdesj 1y ago
The policy is concise and well bounded. It seems to me to assert that you cannot safely assign attribution of authorship of software code that you think was generated algorithmically. I use the term algorithmic because I think it is strong
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by gerdesj 1y ago
Or aeroplanes. Not sure where you put the wings. Why restrict yourself to the Moon?
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by gerdesj 1y ago
I think a spherical D1 is far more interesting than a Möbius strip in this case. Dn: after the Platonic solids, Dn generally has triangular facets and as n increases, the shape of the die tends towards a sphere made up of smaller and smalle
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by gerdesj 1y ago
Love it - any sphere will do. A ping pong ball would be great - the DM/GM could throw it at a player for effect without braining them! (billiard)
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by gerdesj 1y ago
"I think you misunderstand- game engines are complex beasts and visual studio and/or .Net (in any of its incarnations) have the best debugging workflow I've seen." I think you misunderstand: the market, ie the number of
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by gerdesj 1y ago
I was going off on a bit of a tangent but take a look at this horror, which is still up: https://github.com/InboraStudio/Proxmox-VGPU Note the quite professional looking README.md and think about the audience for this
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by gerdesj 1y ago
"There aren't many things like .NET, MSSQL and Visual Studio out there. The debugger experience in VS is the holy grail if you have super nasty real world technology situations. There's a reason every AAA game engine depends
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by gerdesj 1y ago
I've recently updated a Python script that I originally wrote about 10 years ago. I'm not a programmer - I just have to get stuff done - think sysops. For me there used to be a clear delineation between scripting languages and co
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by gerdesj 1y ago
You really are a very good technical communicator. Me and the wiff (not a spelling mistake! - very silly joke) find ourselves doing a similar thing and we are probably rather older than you (50-60). The world is changing very quickly and wh
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by gerdesj 1y ago
"Wow: I run KDE with Wayland on my PC" Me too - its fine for me. You are probably holding it wrong 8) My car (Seic MG4 - an EV) clearly has two lots of software. The reliable stuff that runs the "must work" stuff like
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by gerdesj 1y ago
Tommy is the standard nickname for Thomas in Britain too. We throw in an extra h in Thomas for no good reason 8) Our soldiers were, politely, referred to as Tommies by German soldiers during WW1 onwards. The Wehrmacht had all sorts of oth
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by gerdesj 1y ago
I put Zwave window sensors on all windows at work (40 of them). These devices have two AAA cells. One of the gent's window sensors used to "die" far quicker than any of the others and eventually stopped working. I should e
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by gerdesj 1y ago
I live in a UK sticks n bricks two storey roof and a half building. It looks like a bungalow with three bedrooms in the roof on floor one (second floor for the US and other one based countries). I have two switches in my attic above those
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by gerdesj 1y ago
It is possible that OP has made some parts of the story up or at least sexed it up a bit to jibe with the HN mindset (whatever that is). I found the article refreshingly short and to the point whilst being jolly amusing and informative. Th
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by gerdesj 1y ago
When I specify smart home stuff, I have several criteria. Things like controls must be mains powered or on UPS or both. If it is important, then if wifi/ethernet out then it should still work. So my doorbell used to have a link to a
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by gerdesj 1y ago
You clearly don't understand how country/nation finances work, especially when you have your own currency. It's not like a personal finance regime. "Fiat" means "let it be". All you have to do is make sur
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by gerdesj 1y ago
I am deliberately keeping away from LLMs for search. I'm old enough to remember finally ditching Altavista for the new upstart Google. I did briefly flirt with Ask Jeeves but it was not good enough. I don't think anyone has it s
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by gerdesj 1y ago
You might not like what they are working on or towards but a big old firm like Google has a lot of talent, bought and paid for, on board. Its a vast organisation and therefore will, even by accident, have lots of talented employees. They
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by gerdesj 1y ago
Foxes, pigeons, rats etc are generally described as vermin yet they perform vital ecological functions and are somehow maligned for performing it. They are scavengers (int al). They help keep the place cleaner in return for a small amount
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by gerdesj 1y ago
When tulips suddenly became fashionable a few years back, articles like this were rife. This article even smells ... generative.
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by gerdesj 1y ago
IPv6 still has the concept of "routable". You just have to decide what site-local means in terms of the routing table. In old school IPv4 you would normally assign octet two to a site and octet three to a VLAN. Oh and you start
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by gerdesj 1y ago
Fair enough. Not all keyboards have a shift key.
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by gerdesj 1y ago
oss?
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by gerdesj 1y ago
Try getting your fav LLM to do something useful with PowerCLI. That's the VMware PowerShell thing. It is quite popular but not enough, so that most prompts will end up with bollocks, masquerading as code. When a LLM has been tamed to
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by gerdesj 1y ago
It (AC) was written by anarchists (lol) and not the US Army. Perhaps, I might read your formal critique?
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by gerdesj 1y ago
Yes, its an old one. Inject it into a keyhole. Kids - do note that the Anarchist's Cookbook is absolutely verboten in the UK at least. My old man was an ATO so I didn't need a copy. The original AC will be several elements in eve
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by gerdesj 1y ago
I never said never. Not now
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by gerdesj 1y ago
Go on, have a go yourself doing a task like that.

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