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by gerdesj 1y ago
Your fingerprints are largely static according to all police forces. To me that implies that the skin on your fingers probably wrinkles in a largely constant way too when submerged in water. No evidence nor research done here - just fiat!
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by gerdesj 1y ago
PDF is a display format. It is optimised for eyeballs and printers. There has been some feature creep. It is a rubbish machine data transfer mechanism but really good for humans and say storing a page of A4 (letter for the US). So, you s
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by gerdesj 1y ago
Although things are a bit shit in many places, I do love our planet and the weird and wonderful ways it works. Were car horns disabled (broken deliberately) in Chongqing?
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by gerdesj 1y ago
Excessive horning (made up word) is not just a Vietnamese thing. Italy is probably Europe's worst offender, with Greece a close contender. I'm not so familiar with Asia, but I get the impression that the entirety of Indian and mos
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by gerdesj 1y ago
I don't know if it is still required but hostnames used to require a minimum of two chars and the first shalt not be an integer. Given that DNS does not put a proper boundary on host/domain, that might extend to your top level ..
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by gerdesj 1y ago
Some of us are old enough to remember a Linux distro called Yggdrasil. It was my first but certainly not my last. Does this thing involve a MAC address?
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by gerdesj 1y ago
I have been developing a Linux desktop using "off the shelf" (Kubuntu) for "enterprise" use, for some years now. By the word enterprise I actually mean "I've called your bluff"! In the "enterprise&quo
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by gerdesj 1y ago
"This is phrased like you're moving the goal post," There are two goal posts for football (soccer) plus a crossbar and this analogy is getting a bit strained.
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by gerdesj 1y ago
"private equity buys a company and drives it to shit." Allow me to introduce you to VMware. It was bought out by Broadcom. That sounds like a tech firm buying a tech firm. It isn't really. Broadcom is (not really) run by R
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by gerdesj 1y ago
When these things can drive to Moose Fucker in the far north, across frozen lakes etc then we are in the future. For now: cute but could do better.
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by gerdesj 1y ago
The game model might involve 20ms time slices. The frame rate is simply the best available visualisation of the "action" that the machine can manage. So, you have your game model, input and output. Output needs to be good enough
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by gerdesj 1y ago
"If it takes a long time to copy a database and it gets updated midway through, rsync may give me an invalid database file" Wot? There are multiple ways of snapshotting/checkpointing, starting at the virty level and working
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by gerdesj 1y ago
Norks has at least two meanings in en_GB. North Koreans and (generally) female breasts. The first has a pretty obvious derivation and the second is anyone's guess. Surely no-one would conflate norks with norks. Please, no riffing on
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by gerdesj 2y ago
Sounds like bollocks to me. Your RPD password is your AD password and that is encrypted and salted (I think). There are some worrying extensions to MSAD but I don't think that unless you tick the box in ADUC that your password will be
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by gerdesj 2y ago
MSO defaults to "load at startup". LibreOffice will if you let it (there is a small difference in propriety here). The worst offender by far is Outlook (which isn't really MSO but looks like it is, or is it?) Against an on pr
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by gerdesj 2y ago
Engage reading mode and relax.
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by gerdesj 2y ago
When it comes to this stuff you generally have to follow advice from someone who understands what is going on. For me, personally, I'm going to side with tptacek - he has a track record that I have seen over at least a decade if not tw
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by gerdesj 2y ago
"Funny thing is, those are the exact words I use when talking to people about networking" Computer networking is not the same. Our networks will not explode. I will grant you that they can be shite if not designed properly but t
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by gerdesj 2y ago
Quite. I was a Gentoo user (daily driver) for around 15 years but the endless compilation cycles finally got to me. It is such a shame because as I started to depart, Gentoo really got its arse in gear with things like user patching etc an
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by gerdesj 2y ago
"Since 2015, depressed, isolated, romantically unsuccessful nerdy young guys have regularly been emailing me, asking me for sympathy, support, or even dating advice." You can be a bit of a well meaning dick (for the US or wanker f
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by gerdesj 2y ago
"somehow communicating via sound waves the speed, heading, and distance ..." You'll need to speak "whale" first with this awful scheme. A small whale is a few tonnes in mass a large one can be 150 tonnes. That is v
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by gerdesj 2y ago
Unfortunately evolution does evolution: https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/toxoplasmosis/
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by gerdesj 2y ago
It seems you know what you are on about! Thank you for a cracking comment. I've always had this feeling that the foundations (integers etc) are a bit dodgy in formal Maths but just as with say Civil Engineering, your world hasn't
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by gerdesj 2y ago
As I said above, I'm not an expert. However, I read GEB on a whim when bored at school and I think it still informs my thinking 35 years later. Move GEB up the reading list right now! The edition I initially read was hard bound and w
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by gerdesj 2y ago
You might start here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del,_Escher,_Bach That's the GEB I mentioned above.
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by gerdesj 2y ago
"How many newspaper stories from the 1700s have you read?" Social history interests me. So does genealogy, although I am the apprentice. My family tree has over 150,000 records in it - thanks to my uncle's painstaking resea
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by gerdesj 2y ago
"Hell, I know twenty-somethings that can't even stand movies from the 1980s!" We all have anecdotes about the bloody kids! I noticed my granddaughter wearing a Metallica (Justice) T shirt - she does like the music - I asked
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by gerdesj 2y ago
I'm no expert but: "...ignoring the trivial case of 1 being an obvious factor of every integer." I remember quite a big chunk of GEB formally defining how integers are really not trivial! The main problem seems to be is that
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by gerdesj 2y ago
"In 100 years (probably sooner), the vast majority of people won't be watching our films anymore." I quite strongly disagree with you. I lived through the latter stages of the transition from monochrome to full colour and va
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by gerdesj 2y ago
Please don't keep us in suspense ... who is privacy?

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