gerdesj

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by gerdesj 2y ago
WN. Those letters mean: "Welsh not". Back in the day, Welsh children would be punished for speaking Welsh (instead of English) and made to wear a wooden board with WN on it around their neck. The board would be passed on through
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by gerdesj 2y ago
Start with the handy precis that Mr A leaves at the top in yellow. You can drop that into conversation right now with some confidence! Mr A has quite some clout hereabouts let alone elsewhere, so that seems reasonable. You can't know
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by gerdesj 2y ago
A genny does not have a Li-Ion battery.
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by gerdesj 2y ago
A genny has a 12V car/lorry battery to start it. My work one is basically a lorry diesel motor on a floor bolted chassis. It is the other side of an external wall (double skin of brick). Ironically enough the genny is inside the sam
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by gerdesj 2y ago
What a beauty! Its been rebuilt (restored is a tricky concept here) in largely the same materials and in the same form as the original, prior to various restoration efforts through the centuries, with a few knobs on. This means that we get
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by gerdesj 2y ago
Thank you for your description of your first hand experience - very interesting. Life at sea is rather different to on land! "except the cop is heavily armed commandos in an Apache attack helicopter." Apaches don't deploy at
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by gerdesj 2y ago
I wasn't talking to the shooter. Given your spelling of dialogue, I think it's unlikely we'll ever really understand the shooter's motivation.
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by gerdesj 2y ago
Why on earth is anyone whining about the processes behind making an Internet Change Request, aka RFC? I once spent around 18 months to two years getting a corporation to use DHCP properly (ie stop registering all devices MAC addresses for s
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by gerdesj 2y ago
I'm terribly sorry, but all of your italicized fragments, taken in isolation, do paint a stark picture of the murder of a person. You might have beef (or whatever you call it these days) with his job and industry but in the end a man w
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by gerdesj 2y ago
"The next token is with almost 100% certainty 4." By using the word "almost" with regards 2 + 2 = 4, you have not exactly dispelled LLM "nonsense". A human (with a modicum of maths knowledge) will know that 2 +
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by gerdesj 2y ago
"This story is about two kinds of workers in America" Very pretty and very dark and totally impenetrable.
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by gerdesj 2y ago
Well done granny. I lacked your imagination and thumped in loads of machine code listings from a series of books to do basic graphics and sounds. Mind you I did discover about attack/decay/sustain/release and a few other thi
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by gerdesj 2y ago
"It" does not know when it does not know. A LLM is a funny old beast that basically outputs words one after another based on probabilities. There is no reasoning as we would know it involved. However, I'll tentatively allow
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by gerdesj 2y ago
I don't think that there is any need for "Technical nit:" and it looks a bit aggressive to me and without any substantiation. Why not say your piece and be done at that point in time? You can respond to counter arguments as
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by gerdesj 2y ago
I'm with zamadatix and I'm also posting because I hear some pain. Putting yourself out for hire is bloody hard and we all have to do it. I ditched my CV (Brit) about 24 years ago and am the MD of a small IT company but I still ha
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by gerdesj 2y ago
Suitable units can be found here: https://www.theregister.com/Design/page/reg-standards-conver...
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by gerdesj 2y ago
Before breakfast. 'spoons opens quite early in the morning for a reason ...
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by gerdesj 2y ago
"once it somehow gets installed?" The report mentions: "we conclude ... exploited an unknown web application vulnerability ... ." The chain of events, post initial exploit, is all very well but what was the initial point
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by gerdesj 2y ago
"seems like even some of the simplest searches are just packed with AI generated and SEO garbage" I'll give you a concrete example of that and it is a right old pain. Let's try upgrading Debian Bullseye to Bookworm. Sea
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by gerdesj 2y ago
Ah yes, PowerShell. Never have so many owed so much to ... tab completion 8)
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by gerdesj 2y ago
I always use IPA to clean the bed too. I have once used glue for a very thin print with lots of intricate holes in it.
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by gerdesj 2y ago
I was a Gentoo aficionado for quite a while (20+ years). I'm going back too (rather slowly) There is a lot of very decent technology in Gentoo - it literally describes what all other distros need to do, in some cases. You mention a we
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by gerdesj 2y ago
I do hope I haven't offended anyone but I also hope I will leave no one in any doubt that IT security is important. The world is now very highly interconnected. When I was a child, I would have rubbish conversations over the blower to
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by gerdesj 2y ago
Which Turkey are we on about here? The Franks were mostly Germanic which is why English is considered a Germanic language and why Lingua Franca is a thing and why I can riff on the French (Franks) language being English as a silly joke. Eng
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by gerdesj 2y ago
We (in IT security) are expected to abrogate responsibility to funky AI or whatevs anti virus and other stuff. Buy and install a security package from ... whoever ... and all will be well. This is an expert system/advice run by real p
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by gerdesj 2y ago
You are not insane. You are running a distro that enables you to patch both the distro package definitions and the source code that is compiled by those definitions. Then there is the day to day stuff such as USE ... I have a VM that was
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by gerdesj 2y ago
"because I'll have drifted from a standard distro configuration" You will obviously have a change management system which describes all the changes you have made to your putative standard distro configs. You will also be mon
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by gerdesj 2y ago
Saying "English is the French language", half in Latin says much about English!
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by gerdesj 2y ago
"fountain pen enthusiasts" Well, I had to use one when I was at school (I'm 53). I do note that the headmaster of my prep school (British - aged 10-13) advocated those smart new fibre tipped things. He (head) was formally a
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by gerdesj 2y ago
It's the Grauniad.

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