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Having cancer is not a fight or a battle, it is about having luck or misfortune

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/12/10

It has been a while after my last post about me having cancer. No, I am not giving up. But I am having the regular fear of the upcoming checks: did the metastases return, or do I have the luck to outlive some 30% of my peer group.

The last metastases surgery has been slightly more than a year ago. A year from now, that percentage hopefully will be 50% and slowly increase over time until about 90% in some 9 years from now.

At year’s end, I will know for sure.

Below are some links on, mostly Dutch but with English abstract, articles about the mental side of having cancer, or having survived it for now.

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Mumbly_Bum excellent comments on “AI is working great for my team, and y’all are making me feel crazy”

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/06/24

Planning and feedback loops in extreme programming

Planning and feedback loops in extreme programming

TL;DR:

Using LLM in the software development process is shifting the feedback cycle to the top of the development cycle in the graph on the right. This is a costly endeavour.

LLM deliver output that is statistically likely, decreasing the chance to incorporate outliers as they are statistically unlikely but form the burden of software development.

[Wayback/Archive] Mumbly_Bum comments on AI is working great for my team, and y’all are making me feel crazy

Most of our tickets are now (initially) generated using Claude + the Atlassian MCP, and that’s allowed us to capture missed requirements up-front.

I think this is the key disconnect (even taking into account the notes from meetings) in understanding our jobs and why we’re not going away and why LLMs create harm in delivery.

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Posted in AI and ML; Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, Conference Topics, Conferences, Development, Event, LLM, Software Development | Leave a Comment »

/Fay-lee-nuh/ on Twitter: “I know this sounds incredibly harsh, but a large part of CS researchers would not know an epistemic core if it hit them in the face. Which is not necessarily a personal failure, CS programs tend to not cover theory building or interpreting at all.” / Twitter

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/06/24

Food for thought:

  1. [Wayback/Archive] /Fay-lee-nuh/ on Twitter: “I know this sounds incredibly harsh, but a large part of CS researchers would not know an epistemic core if it hit them in the face. Which is not necessarily a personal failure, CS programs tend to not cover theory building or interpreting at all.”
  2. [Wayback/Archive] /Fay-lee-nuh/ on Twitter: “What CS students (esp in engineering schools) are generally taught is what I call “Bob the Builder” science. The research question is “Can we fix it?” and the method is: “Yes we can, it is right there”.”

–jeroen

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Google AI: there are t’s in kilogram and kilogramme

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/06/23

Unlike SKYNET, actual Skynet is still far away: according to Google AI, there are t’s in both kilogram and kilogramme.

Screenshots mine as the Wayback Machine does not run the Google AI:

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Posted in AI and ML; Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, Development, Google, LLM, Power User, Software Development | Leave a Comment »

[FRnOG] [TECH] cogent rennes: “Due to unprecedented and historically high temperatures in the region, it has become impossible to maintain the environmental conditions required for the safe operation of equipment hosted at the facility.”

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/06/23

It’s a short term weather side-effect for which data centers are under dimensioned because data centers don’t have long term planning, right?

Narrator: it’s the climate changing way faster than anyone designing data centers anticipated.

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KEESIN Anti-theft shoulder bag, wallet, hidden underarm holster, belt, security bag, backpack, black : Amazon.de: Fashion

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/06/23

Not really hidden, but not uncomfortable either: [Wayback/Archive] KEESIN Anti-theft shoulder bag, wallet, hidden underarm holster, belt, security bag, backpack, black : Amazon.de: Fashion

Via: [Wayback/Archive] Jilles Groenendijk on Twitter: “@P1NKY_GH0ST [amazon links]”

Related: [Wayback/Archive] scozzi Telefoonhouder Riem Heren (XL) Riemlus Riemclip Telefoon Houder Nylon Heuptasje Universeel Compatibel Met Samsung,iPhone,Xiaomi S22 S21 S20 A72 A52 13 12 11T 11 10 9 XS Plus Ultra Mini Lite Pro : Amazon.nl: Elektronica

–jeroen

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Desktop solution: I want to turn off ONLY the AI Summary in Gmail. – Gmail Community

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/06/22

Most solutions mention to disable all “Smart features” in order to not have the AI summary in Gmail, but that disables a lot more than just the AI summary.

Luckily I found the desktop solution in [Wayback/Archive] I want to turn off ONLY the AI Summary in Gmail. – Gmail Community to which I added steps, links and screenshots:

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SwiftOnSecurity on Twitter: “If you are building a home lab everything you need is on eBay and costs around $200. A SSD SATA drive in a off-lease Optiplex delivers more IOPS than an $100k server with a RAID6 we ran DBs on 10 years ago….”

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/06/22

I used to buy off-lease HP gear some 15 years ago. Nowadays I usually buy Dell 1 liter PCs for desktop usage (see my series on 3060/5060/7060) and got reminded that they also have good workstation gear that you can rackmount:

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Posted in Dell Optiplex 3060/5060/7060 Micro, Hardware, HP XW6600, LifeHacker, Power User | Leave a Comment »

Link archive: A YouTube video with steps on making music score videos

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/06/19

For my link archive [Wayback/Archive] How I Make My Videos – YouTube by Cmaj7.

I quoted the steps below as YouTube will automatically fold them.

Same for many useful links I found because of this video.

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I can control all your computers – Jeff Geerling YouTube

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/06/19

[Wayback/Archive] I can control all your computers – YouTube was the first playful title now known as I tested EVERY single IP KVM – YouTube.

The video is a cool compilation of all the recent (last decade) IP KVM products Jeff has tested so far, which of course started with the Pi-KVM that opened the market from old and expensive IP KVM products.

Table of Contents:

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Posted in Hardware, KVM keyboard/video/mouse, PiKVM / Pi-KVM, Power User | Leave a Comment »

GitHub – omegat-org/git-svn-sync: Continuously sync a svn to git, in the cloud.

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/06/18

Interesting: [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – omegat-org/git-svn-sync: Continuously sync a svn to git, in the cloud.

It lives in the Amazon cloud, but should be adaptable to other cloud providers.

Query: [Wayback/Archive] service to sync between sourceforge svn and github git at DuckDuckGo

--jeroen

Posted in Development, DVCS - Distributed Version Control, git, GitHub, Software Development, Source Code Management, Subversion/SVN | Leave a Comment »

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