gerdesj

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by gerdesj 2y ago
I am not a golfist at all and unfortunately I feel that I must instinctively hate the game - that is really my problem and not golf's. Golf is a decent sport and not deserving of my opprobrium. So why do I feel the need to dislike gol
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by gerdesj 2y ago
Why not invent say "Field Golf" or "Lolz Golf" or whatever you fancy calling it? Set the rules and equipment to around your ideal time. Get some mates together to give it a go and refine it. I think the toughest part w
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by gerdesj 2y ago
It's a bit naff criticising design choices and home decor instead of engaging with your arguments and theses about parenthood. I adore humanity in all its guises but some commentards might like to engage brain in first.
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by gerdesj 2y ago
"my kids drop the devices and try to do the same activity with me. Its tiresome and charming at the same time." Are you having a laugh? It appears that you have discovered how to describe useful parenting in mildly broken English
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by gerdesj 2y ago
I have been a Gentoo Linux aficionado for decades. When you set it up you define a set of CFLAGs and CXXFLAGS etc. Those are your globals, your defaults. I am also a human. When I deal with another person I have never met before, I have
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by gerdesj 2y ago
"All other engineering disciplines are ultimately limited to building things in (at most) 3 euclidean dimensions." Trying to diminish engineering disciplines that have existed for millennia by imposing an arbitrary constraint of &
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by gerdesj 2y ago
Looking at the list of 10 equations. For me 2,5,8,9,10 being simplified with Pi=3.141 is the best outcome, especially 5. I'm definitely: e^{i \pi} + 1 = 0
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by gerdesj 2y ago
My memory is grey, my eyes are bent, my back is dim ... My C64 now sports a USB interface and a vast amount of storage. Dad bought it from the NAAFI in Rheindahlen. It came with a "datasette" and also had a cartridge slot, which
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by gerdesj 2y ago
Fair point. "Do you look at the signage you pass every day?" - I do and so does my sodding car and it still annoys me when it gets the speed limits wrong! I accept I'm not everyone and noting and warning about change is a goo
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by gerdesj 2y ago
In the early noughties I ended up being called in as a consultant to sort out a somewhat broken Novell eDirectory. Password changes working sporadically, details not propagating sometimes - you probably know this story. I found a NTP strat
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by gerdesj 2y ago
"while being so absurdly well-organized." I note a z in organized ... I do get where you are coming from: My mum used to joke about a fictional sign that said "Please do not throw stones at this sign". Some of our signa
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by gerdesj 2y ago
My finger slipped across most of the keyboard, or I fucked up. You decide!
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by gerdesj 2y ago
Simon Tathum is British and I have never knowingly seen a lightning bolt coloured cyan hereabouts. Our "Danger of death" signs are black on yellow (1) To be fair an image search for lightning does look decidedly cyan on royal, wit
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by gerdesj 2y ago
In my attic is a Dell PowerEdge T320 - it used to run VMware. That got as far as ESXi 6.5 and then it went out of support completely by VMware. Last year I migrated all my VMs to Proxmox. I have two RAID volumes on it, so I moved the lot
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by gerdesj 2y ago
Oh and I should probably ask how you felt when you first floored the pedal on your Tesla and realised it was sodding dangerous! EVs have ferocious acceleration - no gears and no need to "wind up". I used to own a Honda S2000 which
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by gerdesj 2y ago
I also own an EV. Mine is a Seik MG4 (long range) - a Chinese beastie with an old school British marque slapped on it. I went to school in Abingdon, Oxon, which is where the Morris Garage comes from. My car didn't! There is a standa
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by gerdesj 2y ago
"The big suppliers can ratchet up prices with zero consequences. What are you gonna do about it?" If I was that bothered about eggs, I'd simply grow my own. Americans on average have way more space to mess around in than say
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by gerdesj 2y ago
Sundered has a lot of other connotations too. For example: a person might be sundered. That is not quite the same as shivered or shattered. However I will grant that: alliteratively, they all fall within the same vein. Words like these is
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by gerdesj 2y ago
"The furyous gonne‥cracketh in sonder: and in the ayer doeth rore the shevered peces." That's quite hard to translate into modern English despite all the words being fairly obvious. I'm not too sure about "in sonde
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by gerdesj 2y ago
"The OED claims that intuit as a verb has been in continuous use since the 1860s" That's a fair source but I went to a pretty posh school in Oxfordshire! Oxford was about 90p return away by bus from Abingdon in the mid to la
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by gerdesj 2y ago
Vocal language is not a solved problem and hopefully never will be. I think it is important that we all maintain our respective languages. Let them flow and change and never fetter them. Co-opt words, phrases and more as you like but che
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by gerdesj 2y ago
You use the word intuit as a verb where I would go old school and use "understands it intuitively". You slap a letter s on the end to make the word sound correct to your ear. I will eventually use the word intuits in the same wa
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by gerdesj 2y ago
I've never heard the verb shivered used in that sort of context! I doubt anyone has deployed the phrase "shiver me timbers" outside of Holywood or perhaps Moby Dick. A large wooden sailing vessel does make some odd noises in
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by gerdesj 2y ago
VPNs are complicated and its rarely a case of one is better than another. Tools for the job, should be our watchword ... phrase 8) IPSEC is somewhat old school but very solid - if you can do opportunistic IPSEC via DNS etc it can be rather
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by gerdesj 2y ago
I suggest that you get a backend box to run LLMs etc and get a laptop that suits you. Fiddle up a VPN to connect them. Your backend box can be as ugly as you like whilst your front end laptop is good enough for normal usage.
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by gerdesj 2y ago
"but this is so elementary as to not be interesting." Well that's a bit desultory. The second stanza of the OP (post Intro) describes the potential Audience that they are aiming at. You may have written something far more ex
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by gerdesj 2y ago
I should point out: Every now and then you will note a comment here that looks a bit more ... insightful than the rest - it might be bollocks or not. Search the username etc. or follow the threads and someone will eventually note who made
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by gerdesj 2y ago
There are a lot of non devs here ... a lot. We just let the kiddies crack on and widdle in public but we are still here!
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by gerdesj 2y ago
Your analogy is spot on except there is a MS webby Excel. The goal is to get you totally in the cloud and by you I mean all their customers ... all of them. On prem Exchange is being made as wanky as possible to run and has been for some y
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by gerdesj 2y ago
I've been rocking Evolution for around 10 years now. We migrated from GroupWise at my little firm to Exchange a few years before that. I mostly look after the mail systems myself because no one else really seems to give a shit! Provi

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