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by jjkaczor 8mo ago
While this is great - Visual Studio installer has a set of "command-line parameters" for unattended installs. You can then build a script/documentation that isolates your specific requirements and workloads: https:/&#x2
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by jjkaczor 9mo ago
Thanks for the detailed and in-depth explanation - I was (and am) actually a citizen of a different country, but the company was American - so, the myriad of IRS rules about valid expenses and deductions was (and is) completely foreign to m
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by jjkaczor 9mo ago
Why is it a personal benefit? If I am onsite for 5-10 days, I am likely going to have 1-2 bars/day - especially if I am working a high-stress engagement where actually leaving the client site would have taken away my ability to execut
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by jjkaczor 9mo ago
It may not be worse "objectively" and in direct harm. However - it has one big problem that is rarely discussed... Normalizing of behaviour, interests and attitudes. It just becomes a thing that Grok can do - for paid accounts, a
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by jjkaczor 9mo ago
Neither does your wife divorcing you at about the same time things started to go through legal process... Oops... yeah, in retrospect it was even worse... no... you can and should be judged by the friends you keep and hang-out with... The s
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by jjkaczor 9mo ago
Grrreat! Grok in Space... now AI-generated non-consensual sexual materials can be made completely outside the jurisdiction of any earthly body! Rah rah. Line goes up!
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by jjkaczor 9mo ago
Travel router, use that to connect to the "host" wifi/network, and only ever connect your device through the travel router... always will show the same network, no? (Or phone tether, if you have a good data plan)
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by jjkaczor 9mo ago
Naw - corps will just get engineers to fudge the emissions numbers, then they have someone low-level and easy to blame and remove from the organization... VW: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_emissions_scandal
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by jjkaczor 9mo ago
This is exactly my experience - I have a Lenovo W530 from 2013, it has an i7, 32gb RAM and SSDs (RAID0 for performance, backups are off-device) - and it is STILL lightning fast. However - EVERY single trick I have tried... the above command
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by jjkaczor 9mo ago
That is the reality of pretty much every "luxury product/brand"... It is convincing people to pay a premium for what is still at the end of the day a stitched leather bag, watch, computer or smartphone made in factories like
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by jjkaczor 9mo ago
If-I-Recall-Correctly, it was typically a 10x memory load to open an XML file in a DOM parser. Which could get really ugly, really fast when you were dealing with many files.
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by jjkaczor 9mo ago
If you are that concerned, it's available from Anna's Archive and/or other shadow libraries. This thing has been floating around for decades... Heck - you can buy a physical copy from Amazon...
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by jjkaczor 9mo ago
Well - according to a quick search, 99% of Canadian LNG goes to the US - am sure we would be happy to switch customers at this point in time...
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by jjkaczor 9mo ago
Especially seniors...
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by jjkaczor 10mo ago
Even mentions in the article that he would be hesitant to respond the same way with his resources... that's when I stopped reading, so frankly don't know if he changed that attitude or not...
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by jjkaczor 10mo ago
Actually - I believe - within Windows 11 - the "WebClient" service is now deprecated (which is what - IIRC, actually implements the WebDAV client protocol so that it works with Windows File Explorer, drive mappings, etc.)... Playe
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by jjkaczor 10mo ago
Great! How will the reductions in consumer protection, health, FDA, etc. - by this current administration impact that? https://www.food-safety.com/articles/11004-a-2025-timeline-o...
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by jjkaczor 10mo ago
Hahahahahahaha... "Back-in-the-day" we used to joke internally that Office (it's specific applications) would become things like; "SharePoint Documents", "SharePoint Spreadsheets", "SharePoint Present
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by jjkaczor 10mo ago
Which - now that the various commercial LLM companies have harvested the archive, they will be more than happy to use litigation to raise the drawbridge behind them, so as to block any future competitors from acquiring the same training dat
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by jjkaczor 10mo ago
"Remember when it was Reality TV that was supposed to be the downfall of civilizations?" The jury is still out on that one... failed "business" person who was also a "reality TV star" - and now appears to be in
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by jjkaczor 10mo ago
Are you me? Heh - going on 20+ years, my "running joke" is if the only exercise I truly get is lugging my laptop(s) around (sometimes as many as 3, depending on client-load) + "kit" (Kobo eReader, cables, powerbricks (al
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by jjkaczor 10mo ago
Have a new laptop arriving shortly with enough RAM and storage, that - me being a historically "Windows as primary OS" kind-of-person, with the enshitification of their adding CoPilot to everything and turning Windows 11 into an &
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by jjkaczor 10mo ago
Placed an order from Lenovo on November 21st - 96gb of RAM in that machine, it still hasn't shipped yet - am wondering if/when they will try to "renegotiate" the deal... (supposed arrival date on that system is 01/0
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by jjkaczor 10mo ago
Just don't keep the can in your boot, uh I mean trunk - plausible deniability would go-out-the-window...
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by jjkaczor 10mo ago
Man, I loved my Newton 120 - although I wish I could have gotten a 2000. NewtonScript and the overall filesystem/DB combination was "amazing" and honestly I have missed that "endless-integration-possibilities" ever
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by jjkaczor 11mo ago
Give the Mr. "New New Wars" another "peace prize"...
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by jjkaczor 11mo ago
Heh... I wanted to say in my original comment - that friction is so good, without it we wouldn't have kids... but...
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by jjkaczor 11mo ago
This is perhaps one of the most articulate takes on this I have ever read - thank-you! And - for myself, it was friction that kickstarted my interest in "tech" - I bought a janky modem, and it had IRQ conflicts with my Windows 3 m
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by jjkaczor 11mo ago
Heh - it depends on the "Project Damagers" you have to work with...
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by jjkaczor 11mo ago
They actually had a pretty active community on CodePlex - I used and contributed to many projects there... they killed that in ... checks the web... 2017, replaced with GitHub, and it just isn't the same...

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