gerdesj

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by gerdesj 3mo ago
No you are not but what is your point?
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by gerdesj 3mo ago
You are playing with language badly. The three letters c-o-w sometimes end up close to each other in English but they don't mean a literal cow (moo)! You might examine, say: coworker. A word I never use (because I'm a Brit) but
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by gerdesj 3mo ago
"informal, disparaging + offensive : an unpleasant, annoying, or vacuous woman cowy ˈkau̇-ē adjective" That seems rather parochial (and misogynistic). Have you ever heard or said "cowy" yourself?
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by gerdesj 3mo ago
Stirring an alphabet soup is not a form of argument.
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by gerdesj 3mo ago
.io is (British) Indian Ocean (Territory).
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by gerdesj 4mo ago
We do spend out quite a lot here in the UK for the BBC. They could easily dump a couple of expensive presenters and use the savings for vacuum tubes, if that is what is needed. No idea where vacuum tubes were invented but I'm sure the
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by gerdesj 4mo ago
"I imagine my work could be completed with AI assistance in a matter of days—maybe hours." Would some one with tokens to burn mind checking that statement out and post back. Be sure to use long dashes too.
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by gerdesj 4mo ago
This tells you all you need to know about the "fox": "This report was reviewed by Legal, who have asked us to clarify that the fox was depicted as over eighteen and that the sunglasses remained on throughout."
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by gerdesj 4mo ago
Your words ring true, Wisdom flows from every line, You are always right. Luv, Qwen 3.6!
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by gerdesj 4mo ago
Senatus Populus ... Que Romani! The senate and people of Rome. Italy, per se, is a modern construct but the capital is still Rome and I think it fair to draw associations to the old empire. I love seeing the SPQR logo and I think it is a r
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by gerdesj 4mo ago
He's got some neck!
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by gerdesj 4mo ago
I would encourage this sort of thing in my company. I'm not google. I'm not legally beholden to anyone except myself and my business partners ... and my own sense (which is worryingly odd!) Google can never be exciting or interes
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by gerdesj 4mo ago
That's recipient testing based on mailbox name. I don't recommend that for spammers - its so trite and early 2000s. I wont allow you to test deliverability to my email domains without you sending an email I can analyze and decide
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by gerdesj 4mo ago
Get your buddy with his smoking Mac to allow multiple concurrent connections and see how it gets on compared to your Spark. Don't ever use a single "chat" test to derive performance - try running say 10 or more. You might al
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by gerdesj 4mo ago
The real problem is that OP is or wants to be an old school disruptor working at what used to be an exciting and disruptive employer (but isn't any more - its just a boring old money maker). OP crank out a pretty decent and well receiv
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by gerdesj 4mo ago
A nvidia spark thingie has 128GB unified RAM. They also have a dual port version of one of these things: https://www.nvidia.com/content/dam/en-zz/Solutions/networkin... . ie 2 x 100GB/s ports, they
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by gerdesj 4mo ago
Are there any US federal or state laws stipulating some sort of black box style recording of data for accident investigation? If not then I suspect a Tesla will turn out to be quite surprisingly forgetful about what it was up to in a road t
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by gerdesj 4mo ago
Have you lost your mind 8) Espresso is so named because you "express" the brew from the beans and you do that with water because water is pretty neutral in flavour, is not poisonous and has quite a few other properties that we hav
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by gerdesj 4mo ago
They are Welsh? I too can say it and I'm very English...ish. LlanPG is a tourist attraction and a great example of an amateur advertising idea smashing it!
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by gerdesj 4mo ago
"Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia" Hippopotamus does mean river horse and I was caught out by that (note the o instead of a in ...poto...). I think that word is really a joke - lol - a bit like floccinausilihilipilification,
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by gerdesj 4mo ago
Miss-click! I managed a paltry 90/100. Some of those words require a classical education and probably a British one at that. I studied Latin at two posh schools and have O level English Language and Literature (that's two qualis
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by gerdesj 4mo ago
The k key on my laptop is a bit shagged. I've just hit it harder twice.
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by gerdesj 4mo ago
Thank goodness you read the contract they signed and provided competent legal expertise throughout the process.
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by gerdesj 4mo ago
I have rather a lot of Reolinks ... and Frigate on Home Assistant. The cameras are on a VLAN with rather minimal internet access (ie none) I make pool.ntp.org etc resolve to my own NTP servers too.
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by gerdesj 4mo ago
"PDP-11 with UNIX opened the floodgates for inexpensive interactive computing, which then led to an explosion of office productivity. " Well before we get too misty eyed: "inexpensive" needs looking at "for inexpens
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by gerdesj 4mo ago
Where do you suggest for VPN egress?
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by gerdesj 4mo ago
Have you got this lot sorted out: MX->A->PTR->A->MX SPF DKIM DMARC mta-sts - DNS and webpage Also your IPs must be squeaky bum clean, ideally for several years. DNSSEC might help too. In the UK getting as far as
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by gerdesj 4mo ago
Asia is huge. Please be more explicit (if you can).
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by gerdesj 4mo ago
PoE++ can get warm but you wont be doing that with fibre! Before specifying fibre everywhere I suggest you note that a CAT 6 cable can manage 10G and PoE++. Its a lot more resilient to breakage too, especially outside the data centre. If y
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by gerdesj 4mo ago
Silly me and my silly stories! HN is a forum and as far as I am aware, anecdata is allowed here. You might disagree with me and my experience and that is fine too but please don't denigrate me.

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