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by gerdesj 2y ago
Many years ago I looked after a Novell cluster of three hosts with a rather expensive FC connected array. So what - that's pretty normal? It was the early noughties and a TB was expensive. I wrote a spreadsheet with inputs from the N
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by gerdesj 2y ago
Pratchett's Discworld is pretty well mapped out and that which is left to the imagination is well described. Death's house and garden seem almost tangible ...
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by gerdesj 2y ago
robots.txt is famously ignored by many ... agents ... out of pure spite. That's a human thing.
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by gerdesj 2y ago
"I also feel like calling the LLMs "Robots" is needlessly confusing. "AI" or "Agent" would have been more fitting." They are just computer programs. Why on earth is IT so bereft of creativity that it
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by gerdesj 2y ago
110V is regularly used via transformers, generally for safety - 110V doesn't kick you as much as 240V. Perhaps I didn't emphasise that 110V is not grid delivered here. I have a 110V transformer and a 110V rated SDS hammer drill.
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by gerdesj 2y ago
Its a meme and not "truth". "Everyone" knows that our plugs have three large prongs and if you step on one then it will hurt. However, incidents of actual treading are very rare. Our plugs do have a shape that means th
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by gerdesj 2y ago
"Treading on the upturned plug also isn't the nicest" No Brit ever used your turn of phrase or trod on an upturned plug. I've managed 54 years without doing it. US plugs have a habit of working loose ...
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by gerdesj 2y ago
In the UK we use both 240V and 110V (nominal). Our supply is at 240V. Our appliances are pretty safe out of the box - several standards. We also utilise 110V devices but that requires a step down transformer. I have one. My big hammer d
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by gerdesj 2y ago
Have you actually ever stepped on one? If you have, then why was it unplugged? A plug should be plugged in (in which case it is safe) or it is superfluous. I've managed to struggle through to the age of 54 without treading on one of ou
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by gerdesj 2y ago
System Rescue used to be Gentoo based and then switched to Arch. You can install both Arch and Gentoo with SR and obviously you can install Arch with a Gentoo install CD and vice versa. SR also has some rather handy SAM database editing fa
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by gerdesj 2y ago
The article is written by a co-founder of github and not Linus Torvalds. git is just a tool to do stuff. It's name (chosen by that Finnish bloke) is remarkably apt - its for gits! It's not Mecurial, nor github, nor is it anything
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by gerdesj 2y ago
"It's impossible to kill a media brand," "Still, we also hoped to endure on the scale of centuries" 2012 to nowt. I feel very sorry for Quartz and its staff. I'm not a fan of private equity firms or parasites
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by gerdesj 2y ago
The Roman empire at this time made massive use of auxiliaries - ie not Romans. These are soldiers from conquered lands. Mercenaries were also used a lot. Mercs are soldiers for hire rather than hired soldiers! Auxiliaries might be closer
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by gerdesj 2y ago
-49? Mind you, 0 needs inventing or what happens between 1 and -1 ... oh and -1 needs defining too, whatever that nonsense is! People haven't somehow magically become cleverer over the recent millennia. We just have some fancier tools
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by gerdesj 2y ago
Could be a variety of Henry: https://www.myhenry.com/ However it looks like the wheels in th piccie are outside the major plan view of the body, so perhaps not.
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by gerdesj 2y ago
Perhaps Asia could rebel against rampant adverts. My first thoughts: You might be able to make those bill boards synonymous with imperialism of some sort. That gets you loads of negative connotations for free. ... also not far from the tru
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by gerdesj 2y ago
Good catch. My New Year's promise this year was to be more demonstrably accurate than last year and I seem to have screwed it up already. Bugger.
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by gerdesj 2y ago
Columns work if you can see all of the column - screens are wide and short, books/mags are thin and deep. A physical book has a ratio of exactly the opposite of your laptop. Amazon realised this quite quickly and you will note that th
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by gerdesj 2y ago
The UK, outside of cities is largely devoid of bill boards a la the US. Milan is not "Europe" either! I have driven/travelled across a lot, nearly all, European countries and the other one - the UK. You do not get those huge
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by gerdesj 2y ago
"I turned off Dark Reader and uBlock" When you get older, not only do parts of your body head south and start to refuse to co-operate with the rest of you, your eyesight goes badly off track. Its all a bit disconcerting. I have n
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by gerdesj 2y ago
There are these ones in the UK these days: https://www.co-operative.coop/about-us/history https://www.co-operativebank.co.uk/about-us/ When a Brit talks about "The Co-op", they (we) mean
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by gerdesj 2y ago
Ahhh, now I get what Reader Mode is for. I grew up with Badgers flying overhead and later on the blink tag and yet this is worse!
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by gerdesj 2y ago
Sometimes your best mates go a bit mad. Cut them some slack. They will need a shoulder to cry on when they re-discover how well a trade war works out. The last ones seem to have happened at roughly 50 year intervals. The US seems to be in
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by gerdesj 2y ago
How do you suggest you protect your "thing"? * If I make a thing that is different and I get a patent - cool. * If I create a design that is unusual and I get copyright on it - is that cool? Both concepts - patent and copyright -
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by gerdesj 2y ago
That would be either OneDrive or for the real l337 adminz: B:\ Git is for Linux and other cancers.
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by gerdesj 2y ago
£10, if you don't mind! I routinely use "Mickey mouse money" as an American once colourfully described it to me. I bit my lip and added 25% to the bill before presenting it. "Sauce for the goose" ...
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by gerdesj 2y ago
My current favourite LLM wankery example is this beauty: https://blog.fahadusman.com/proxmox-replacing-failed-drive-i... Note how it has invented the faster parameter for the zpool command. It is possible that the blog wri
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by gerdesj 2y ago
The first piccy has four white kings and is missing four pawns. Black has three or four bishops, a pawn that has just come off the rack and something odd has happened to their left hand side. The board is very odd.
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by gerdesj 2y ago
I'm starting to be tempted. Golf should be a natural fit for me and I am well aware I'm the curmudgeon. "Wigs on the Green" - love the name ... OK it looks like Georgian/Regency so roughly 16-17C when wigs were pop
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by gerdesj 2y ago
Just got back from two weeks in FL to the UK. Both me and the wiff had mobiles and we took a laptop too. Nothing weirder than normal noted in FL except a Cyber truck with "Thank you Elon" taped out on the back panel!

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