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by gerdesj 4mo ago
I think my point still stands 8) I know plenty of people who will put the letters A and I together and get rather confused about what on earth is going on but very few of those would mention any co apart from Microsoft, Google, Facebook or
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by gerdesj 4mo ago
"It's quite a bit more complicated than that." Ohhh no it isn't! (Ohh yes it is) etc "as the general public is far more aware of OpenAI than Anthropic" I run LLMs on my own gear with llama.cpp (compiled from so
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by gerdesj 4mo ago
Why did you "look into the case of your coworker"?
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by gerdesj 4mo ago
"I feel like I must have plateued and don't know what to do next to level up." Go out for a walk. Wherever you live, there will be a destination or an environment that will enrich your life just by visiting it. Go and take
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by gerdesj 4mo ago
Let's keep the discussion civil please
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by gerdesj 4mo ago
ffmpeg is also rather popular and delivers a lot of functionality. Its unlikely that you don't have it installed. Yes, there are security issues but quite a few are not ffmpeg itself related - the input is pretty shabby or at least no
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by gerdesj 4mo ago
You have deployed proof by assertion - I am powerless. I am only describing my own experience and not pontificating on behalf of the world.
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by gerdesj 4mo ago
A fuck up or two doesn't invalidate DNSSEC. IT related security is hard, really hard as you well know, but not impossible nor likely perfect and always a moving target. Putting security on top of DNS is really, really hard because DNS
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by gerdesj 4mo ago
It works for Wal and Cooch! (I am a Brit and a massive fan of Footrot Flats)
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by gerdesj 4mo ago
That article kicks off with a politically motivated "issue" which seems pointed at the US Govt (USG) before dealing with perceived architectural issues. The thing about trust anchors is that they are trust anchors and not a back d
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by gerdesj 4mo ago
Beautifully put, in four letters.
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by gerdesj 4mo ago
Email is just like physical mail and thankfully just as endearingly human (sometimes). Once upon a time (1970/80s) I lived on and off in a mystic land called West Germany. Our postal addresses ended with incantations such as BFPO 40.
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by gerdesj 4mo ago
Not around these parts. We write on Basildon Bond 8)
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by gerdesj 4mo ago
Big Brother seems to be built in to us humans. git itself is decentralised - all repos are equal. Mr T designed it that way because ... well that's all that was needed for Linux kernel development back in the day and it still seems to
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by gerdesj 4mo ago
"Ed Zitron is a" gobby ... British rabble-rouser. "Gob" is the Dick van Dyke approved word for mouth.
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by gerdesj 4mo ago
I'm from the UK and another age 8) I applied for about 50+ jobs as a graduate engineer in 1991. Back then you wrote letters. Hmmm: You printed letters - mail merge was a thing. You signed each one by hand, with a quill pen and used a
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by gerdesj 4mo ago
What do you do in IPv4 or 6 when the metric is the same? That is literally the reason for the metric. You set it if you need your routes to be deterministic. You need to direct your IP stack which routes are important to you - your IP stac
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by gerdesj 4mo ago
I don't like to see DVs for the sake of it so I've UVd your comment because I like to engage and not suppress. You don't need to use FF - I just gave an example. There are loads of translation sites around and if you are rea
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by gerdesj 4mo ago
"So your engineers spend a half day installing that in a VM and debugging it, but the problem is in upstream somewhere." So get to grips with "upstream"! Managing upset "opinionated" and "entitled" u
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by gerdesj 4mo ago
Its 2026. Your browser can probably provide a reasonable translation on demand from a nearby service. FF on Linux does, so surely whatever you are rocking can manage it too. There are lots more options.
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by gerdesj 4mo ago
"so if you have a packet destined to fe80::4, how do you disambiguate it?" Routing tables get you to the destination but I think the question is about which source address to use ie which network card/interface to use as sour
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by gerdesj 4mo ago
"How can we understand what an LLM is "thinking"? It's clearly very valuable to do so — it could enable steering model behavior, detecting dangerous intent, and more." Well that is complete any utter bollocks, dribb
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by gerdesj 4mo ago
I used to look after a System /36. It came with around 10 feet (thick) of manuals. I kept a long plastic straw inside the case - the size of a chest freezer - to tickle one of the fans into life. If you forgot that step, the IPL (boo
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by gerdesj 4mo ago
You might regret that opinion one day. Local govt is quite literally small govt that you can participate in with a chance of actually having a say. It's all very well having a mad man at the helm of the good ship USofA. You may love
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by gerdesj 4mo ago
There are times when you quite literally need to feel the thing you are drilling into and a brace and bit give you feedback that a drill driver wont. Pretty sure I once saw a surgeon using a brace and bit for something unpleasant. I think
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by gerdesj 4mo ago
Show your friend QSFP and QSFP+ ...
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by gerdesj 5mo ago
Thank you for a great write up. Concise, to the point and really interesting. It would be nice if your local detractors noticed your steely insistence on remarking where you are coming from. I think it would be superb if some ... experts ..
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by gerdesj 5mo ago
LLMs are an additional tool to add to your arsenal. They are not omnipotent and need care, just like any other tool. My best effort, so far, at an analogy is a modern drill driver compared to a screw driver/brace and bit/etc: You
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by gerdesj 5mo ago
I ran 10base2 (coax) between two hubs in 1994ish: Out of a window, over the roof and back through a window. The building was a bakery (pie factory) in the Newnham industrial estate, Plymton, near Plymouth, Devon, UK. Hilliers had two sites
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by gerdesj 5mo ago
"Training a sovereign LLM with this meager hardware" Norway has a sovereign fund worth O[MS|Apple|etc] except it is largely in readies and not pixie dust. Whilst the UK frittered away North Sea oil profits, Norge squirreled them a

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