ErroneousBosh

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by ErroneousBosh 3d ago
They are completely different words. Why should they be used to mean the same thing?
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by ErroneousBosh 3d ago
> In the electrical panels, of course. So how do you know what size to fit? Or do you just get in about your panels and replace them every time you unplug a lamp to plug in a TIG welder?
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by ErroneousBosh 4d ago
> defending the BS 1363 power plug that needed an embedded fuse because their domestic postwar electrical wiring was Not Great Where would you put the fuse, then? Also, if you think that's "Not Great", just take a look at
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by ErroneousBosh 4d ago
Death is there because he is no longer Death, he is the Hogfather. Someone else has to be Death while he's moonlighting. Bloody irresponsible thing to do, that, just wander off and work out of scope and expect others to pick up the sla
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by ErroneousBosh 5d ago
Take heart in the thought that this is going to ease off a bit in a couple of years when the current solar cycle dies down and the sun is not dumping about 5% more energy into the atmosphere than normal.
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by ErroneousBosh 6d ago
"Why yes I do have E1 twisted pair to E1 coax baluns, and 50 ohm BNC to 75 ohm BNC with matching stubs, and VGA to SCART cables, right here in my big box of cables!" <gestures at shed with bulging walls> I need to get this u
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by ErroneousBosh 6d ago
I mean make him read Hallaig by Somhairle MacGill-eain. And, ideally, go and visit a cleared township. https://maps.app.goo.gl/nc8uhBogrBCjgjYs9 I used to walk out there most weekends when I was at school. Until about 175 y
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by ErroneousBosh 6d ago
> Maybe but at this point I no longer think it's fair to be quite this dry on something that quite so many people would be legitimately sincere about Yeah, but I'm from the UK so I should be able to detect dry humour. It's
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by ErroneousBosh 6d ago
Mostly yes, you need to vacuum it down well and make sure you have compatible oil in the compressor. Some types of plastic tubing aren't particularly compatible but for cars it's okay.
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by ErroneousBosh 6d ago
The neat thing about propane as a refrigerant is that it's a really powerful one, actually rather better than R12 in practical applications. If you replaced an R134a fill with R290 you'd need about half as much gas and if it got o
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by ErroneousBosh 6d ago
CO2 has a surprisingly feeble greenhouse effect. Almost anything else you could use as a refrigerant is worse. Even water vapour is a worse greenhouse gas. Edit: wait, have I been whooshed? Apologies if so... ;-)
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by ErroneousBosh 6d ago
Underfloor heating works best with air source heat pumps, so just switch to that. Then run a wee bit hot water through your cast iron rads for the look of the thing.
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by ErroneousBosh 6d ago
When EBv2.0 was tiny, like could walk but not really talk tiny, and I was WFH Because Coronapocalypse, he one day did a straight deadass impersonation of me. Picked up a cordless mouse and held it up to his little ear like a phone, "He
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by ErroneousBosh 6d ago
> I look at my cohort who I schooled with, and they are all so terrifyingly sober and adult, and take themselves so very seriously. They toil, they spin, they die. Ah, this is the problem, I work with people who take themselves so terrib
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by ErroneousBosh 6d ago
> And he talks about how you can choose to change your perspective or mindset and see work as a form of play, where you live in the moment. I think it's hilarious that they just let me play with a £150k Nexus 9000 stack at work, lik
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by ErroneousBosh 6d ago
One of the first emails from the school when my small son was in Primary 1 was that they'd been making some pancakes in class and he'd picked up a Big Sharp Knife and began slicing some strawberries to put on them, and this was Ve
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by ErroneousBosh 6d ago
"But it's okay if a battery goes on fire daddy, I'll put carbon dioxide on it!" - EBv2.0, aged 3 and a half
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by ErroneousBosh 6d ago
Runrig's song "Fichead Bliadhna", too, but that's more kind of a protest song: Ruith sa mhonadh, ruith nam beann ’S mar sin dhan sgoil aig deireadh samhraidh Nar clann aig còig bliadhna dh’aois ’S gun facal Beurla nar ce
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by ErroneousBosh 7d ago
Most people don't drink and drive. It's really only in the US where people still seem to think it's acceptable to drive drunk.
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by ErroneousBosh 7d ago
But they still cannot drive cars. All this stuff can do is react very slowly, maybe, if it detects it, to a change in the environment. Self-driving cars will never be safer than human drivers. If you believe otherwise, show actual proof of
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by ErroneousBosh 7d ago
You have to remember that this is data from the US, where the road death rate is just about level with Somalia, something like 30% of road deaths involve drunk drivers, and something like 50% of fatalities overall are because the casualty w
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by ErroneousBosh 7d ago
Look, I know you believe in the Mystical GPU Sky Fairy, but AI is not in any sense "intelligent". It doesn't think. It's a pattern-matching system like an Eliza bot with a huge corpus to draw from. It is not thinking. It
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by ErroneousBosh 8d ago
Occasionally I browse the comments when something I've worked on is misunderstood on there. You should never read the comments.
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by ErroneousBosh 8d ago
Some really hyperbolic comments on there: JohnU says: "It’s all fun and games until helicopter crashes and what should be a minor incident turns into a nuclear emergency where you have to call very specialized decontamination units to
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by ErroneousBosh 8d ago
Yes, but if you were being accurate you wouldn't say "AI wrote this code for me", you'd say "I used an Eliza bot to automate copying and pasting from someone else's github repo".
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by ErroneousBosh 8d ago
Every time I've asked an LLM to provide some code, it's given me an example from my own github repos. Granted, I've only asked it about some of the weirdly specific technological niche that my code inhabits.
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by ErroneousBosh 8d ago
If we're going to be stupid with it, I should write up an article on my ultra-precise 16MHz Arduino that runs at cock on 16000000Hz. The crystal is replaced by a GPS-disciplined VCO. Why? Well, I wasn't doing anything else much fu
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by ErroneousBosh 8d ago
Also, LLMs never *write* code snippets, they just pirate them from somewhere else.
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by ErroneousBosh 9d ago
This runs on FlaskBB because I prefer Python to PHP. I'd love to write a backend for it to expose the forum as NNTP ;-)
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by ErroneousBosh 9d ago
I absolutely love goat's milk and I would love to keep goats, but they are every possible kind of a pain in the tits to deal with. A neighbour of mine had a goat that we thought had some terrible thing happen because she was choking an

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