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Ollama has a num_ctx parameter that controls the context window length - it defaults to 2048. At a guess you will need to set that.

Hey Justin - this is probably one of my favourite talks! https://testdouble.com/insights/the-selfish-programmer Was lucky to be at the conference when you gave it and it's stuck in…

v4 will compile with libsass by default. You can set the TWBS_SASS environment variable to use the Ruby compiler if desired.

Dota 2 has been the most popular game on Steam for a while now, and with the gradual rollout of beta keys the number playing has been steadily climbing - you can see a graph of the…

I've had 4 emails in the past month providing information about the phishing emails from my department, JCR and IT services, and despite that a number of accounts still got comprom…

Both of them have applied for .search. > The .search gTLD provides Google with the opportunity to differentiate its Google Search products and services by linking them to a unique …

It was specifically mentioned a couple of times in the post-launch press conference.

In general I wait until the new version is merged into master, and I use GitHub's compare view to see all the changes between the latest version and the previous one, which I keep …

It's using my bootstrap-sass gem. [1] [1]: https://github.com/thomas-mcdonald/bootstrap-sass

I thought that he added his public key to the Rails user through his own account settings, which wouldn't give him access to the Rails web admin.

I'm not sure all the things you list as being possible are true. - Every GitHub Repository could be access by anyone as if they had full administrator privileges. - This means that…

I think this is related to an issue he opened on Rails[1] which would suggest that GitHub isn't protecting against malicious mass assignment. By default, if you have an new, create…

I'd recommend not travelling through Manchester Airport then, which have backscatter machines in place and do not allow for opt-out (although this is as-per DfT guidelines). They d…

New Relic has a series of videos on scaling Rails, several of which are about caching. They're a couple of years old but most of the concepts and method calls are still valid. http…

Much appreciated - it's nice to hear and see others using it. There's a few commits to catch up with on the 2.0-wip branch, hopefully I'll get some updates done and pushed today.

As someone who went through the Oxford interview process this year (and rather surprisingly received an offer) I do wonder exactly what she was expecting when she applied to Oxford…

Yeah, I spent a couple of hours porting the Bootstrap 2.0-wip branch to SASS yesterday (so bootstrap-sass is half ready when it's released) and I was surprised to see 'Bootstrap 2.…

I believe that the critical ASP.NET framework update that Microsoft pushed just before the new year was to fix this issue as well, amongst a few others. http://technet.microsoft.co…

I have a Desire Z (since June) and what I would call low usage: perhaps a few texts per day, generally no calls & always on (but hardly ever used) wifi. I find I have to charge my …

I was under the impression that attempts had been made to hide any effects of :visited styles on the accessible DOM to stop this from working. There's a particularly good article o…

Bootstrap has enabled me to work on many more hobby projects than I would have ever done before. As a student developer with a lack of any sort of design talent, being able to whac…