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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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Pink Floyd at Pompeii – MCMLXXII [Blu-ray]: Amazon.de: DVD & Blu-ray

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/07/20

On my wish list, which is supposed to be the Bluray edition: [Wayback/Archive] Pink Floyd at Pompeii – MCMLXXII [Blu-ray]: Amazon.de: DVD & Blu-ray – Blu-Ray box

And note that this is not the DVD, but a CD in DVD packaging: [Wayback/Archive] Pink Floyd at Pompeii – MCMLXXII: Amazon.de: DVD & Blu-ray – DVD Amaray (style) Box

If you want the CD, then better buy the this 2 CD box: [Wayback/Archive] Pink Floyd at Pompeii – MCMLXXII: Amazon.de: CDs & Vinyl – 2 CD in softpack

Found this after an acquaintance mentioned that selected movie theatres had the remastered Pink Floyd at Pompeii movie running for a short period in 2025.

Related:

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Enorm optimistische weergave van Schiphol: Woon ik onder een vliegroute?

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/07/20

De heel optimistische weergave in plaatjes [Wayback/Archive] Schiphol | Woon ik onder een vliegroute?.

In werkelijkheid buigen veel vliegen nog veel eerder af, vaak al als ze onder de 500 meter hoogte zijn, en komen daardoor laag en vol gas over woonwijken heen.

Idem voor naderend verkeer. Het komt geregeld voor dat ze vol gas wisselen van een toenadering naar de Zwanenburgbaan om dan vol gas laag over Nieuw-West en Badhoevedorp naar de Kaagbaan te vliegen.

–jeroen

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75% More Pedestrians Have Been Killed Since 2009. Giant Trucks and SUVs Are Why

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/07/17

The USA now have data to prove this: [Wayback/Archive] 75% More Pedestrians Have Been Killed Since 2009. Giant Trucks and SUVs Are Why

We knew bigger cars were killing more pedestrians; now there’s data to prove it.

They are not cars (like the EU currently regards them), but trucks that can go as fast as cars, but don’t have the extra safety measures that regular trucks have.

So when is the EU going to ban or heavily restrict these?

Via [Wayback/Archive] 75% More Pedestrians Have Been Killed Since 2009. Giant Trucks and SUVs Are Why | Hacker News

--jeroen

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Help:Interlanguage links – Wikipedia

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/07/17

For my link archive in case I need to connect two articles on the same topic written in different languages:

Query: [Wayback/Archive] wikipedia connect two languages of the same topic – Recherche Google

–jeroen

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A while ago I encountered the GitHub unicorn page and saved it in a gist as it is a nice HTML example of embedding images

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/07/16

I hardly do web development, so every once in a while I encounter something that I forgot about.

In this case it was embedding images with base64 encoding in the HTML of a web page.

The GitHub unicorn page reminded me of that, so I saved it in a gist and a JSFiddle:

You can view the rendered HTML here:

Via: [Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers: “First time I got the GitHub unicorn.…” – Mastodon

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yewtu.be is an invidious instance with an easy to remember domain name. | Hacker News

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/07/16

Learned this a while ago as someone linked to a video on it: [Wayback/Archive] yewtu.be is an invidious instance with an easy to remember domain name. | Hacker News

[Wayback/Archive] yewtu.be: Invidious

Related:

Queries:

–jeroen

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floating point representation

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/07/15

Like many programmers, in my early days I was totally unaware how floating point values were stored. Even seemingly simple data structures are worth explaining, especially when debugging.

So I was glad getting referenced to [Wayback/Archive] Float Exposed and to [Wayback/Archive] Floating Point Visually Explained which I will quote a few bits below.

About bits: did you notice you can flick on the float.exposed bits to flip them? Try it!

The references came from replies to [Wayback/Archive] Julia Evans on Twitter: “floating point representation”

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ASCII Table (Code page 437 – IBM PC) – hexadecimal/decimal – HardwareHacking/ascii.pdf at main · jillesdotcom/HardwareHacking · GitHub

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/07/15

One of the best ASCII tables I have ever come across: [Wayback/Archive] HardwareHacking/ascii.pdf at main · jillesdotcom/HardwareHacking · GitHub is a PDF extended ASCII Table (Code page 437IBM PC) – with hexadecimal/decimal markers.

Of course the PDF prints best, but the GitHub [Wayback/Archive] Render below is also quote useful:

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GitHub – breakzplatform/downloader.notx.blue

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/07/14

Interesting, as this seems to handle all actions client-side: [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – breakzplatform/downloader.notx.blue

Hosting is at two sites:

The code is a tiny HTML wrapper around about 1000 lines of JavaScript (plus a few hundred lines of minified [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – ffmpegwasm/ffmpeg.wasm: FFmpeg for browser, powered by WebAssembly JavaScript code). Impressive!

Via [Wayback/Archive] notx.blue – Projetos do Joselito para o Bluesky

--jeroen

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Scotland’s Secret Bunker – Visitor attraction of Scotland’s best kept secret

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/07/14

Hopefully we can visit here someday: [Wayback/Archive] Scotland’s Secret Bunker – Visitor attraction of Scotland’s best kept secret

Via:

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