It is 17 January 1998. President Bill Clinton sits in a deposition in the Paula Jones civil case. A written definition of “sexual relations” has been placed before him. As narrowed by the judge, it states that a person engages in sexual relations when that person knowingly engages in or causes contact with the genitalia, …
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Critical thinking and logical fallacies: From Taxonomies to Management
Captain Walker
It is a reasonable assumption that people who have been through university should not make basic errors of thinking. They have been selected for ability, trained in a subject, and surrounded for years by argument, evidence, and criticism. History does not support the assumption. This article follows from Critical Thinking 2.0, in 2023. Educated people …
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An advanced guide to AI model configuration
Captain Walker
This is an advanced guide for people who on Windows 11 have setup OpenWebUI on Docker and have configured API settings to various AI models. Why this? The powerhouse models like DeepSeek V4 Pro, Kimi K3 and GLM (now at 5.3) – all coming out of China – have been increasing their rates for API …
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The True Cost of Frontier AI Access: Web Subscriptions v Efficient API Usage
The rapid expansion of large language model services has produced a striking divergence in access costs. On one side sit high-end web subscription tiers from major Western providers, priced between $100 and $300 per month. On the other side lies direct API access, particularly to efficient models such as DeepSeek, where even intensive professional workloads …
Resolving Intermittent Network Printing in Legacy HP All-In-One Devices on Modern Windows Builds
The solution cuts right through modern Windows abstraction layers. Rather than letting Windows guess over broadcast protocols or relying on heavy vendor wrapper apps, pinning the print engine straight to a raw TCP port gives the rock-solid reliability network printing. 1. The Core Problem Following an operating system reinstallation (Windows 11), a legacy network-attached All-In-One …
