Posted by jpluimers on 2020/11/03
These are quite OK: [WayBack] GitHub – colinj/TDateTimeHelper: Helper record for TDateTime type in [WayBack] DateTimeHelper.pas with DUnitX tests in [WayBack] TDateTimeHelper.Tests.pas.
Via: [WayBack] Does Delphi XE 10.2.2 ship with type helpers for TDateTime type? Or do I need to implement my own. – Graeme Geldenhuys – Google+.
It got even promoted at [WayBack] Delphi XE3: Record Helpers for Intrinsic Types.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/11/02
I got a bit tired of scrolling back to a known date for posts (as having a couple of 100 tweets visible really makes browsers slooooooooooooooow), so I wondered if you could limit a date range. Yes you can! There are even more options, and there is even a special search page for that:
You can use all these from the regular search as well as per [WayBack] Find Your Old Tweets: How to See Your First Tweet | WordStream.
A was too lazy to find all the possible keywords myself, so used [WayBack] How to use advanced Twitter search queries (with examples!) | Union Metrics (and a few others I found later) to make this list:
keword/prefix meaning/values include word or phrase
if it is an account: includes tweets from, mentions and retweets of that account– negate: exclude this word or phrase @ mentions of an account, but not tweets from it # hashtag lang: two-letter ISO 639-1 language code from [WayBack] What languages can I limit report results to? – Union Metrics Help Desk;
might actually be any BCP 47 IETF language tagnear: region (country, city) within: distance around center of region (at least ##mi for miles and ##km for kilometers are supported) since: date, including the since date until: date, excluding the until date to: reply-tweets to an account (which does not allow an @) from: tweets from an account (which does not allow an @) filter: at least recognises filter:linksto only returns tweets having links:( searches for negative attitudes (it recognises many negative emoticons) :) searches for negative attitudes (it recognises many positive emoticons) ? searches for questions source: at least recognises source:twitterfeedto only return tweets posted via twitterfeedOR include multiple words or phrases
A few tips of things to avoid:
So this does not work: https://twitter.com/search?l=&q=from%3Ajpluimers%20since%3A2020-01-01%20until%3A2020-01-01&src=typd
But this does: https://twitter.com/search?l=&q=from%3Ajpluimers%20since%3A2020-01-01%20until%3A2020-01-02&src=typd
You can even reclaim your time-line on a specific date: just increase the date by one day: https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&vertical=default&q=filter%3Afollows%20until%3A2020-01-02%20-filter%3Areplies&src=typd
Three really cool things on that last URL
Hmm, maybe I should make a redirect that always shows your timeline for today in the non-mangled way (:
Some more links I found during this search:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/11/02
No, I do not like the OnePlus Slate font, despite the lower x-height.
Background:
The fonts (images from Wikipedia):
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Roboto – Wikipedia |
Slate (typeface) – Wikipedia |
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/11/02
[WayBack] “Ik ben wat verward over de @WoonVeilig site. www.woonveilig.nl/juiste-producten- heeft het bijvoorbeeld over GATE-03 en GATE-02, maar www.woonveilig.nl/klantenservice/handleidingen over ALARM-03 en SMARTHOME-01. Ook heeft SMARTHOME-01 meer accessoires dan ALARM-03. Werken die extra (zoals CO-25) niet op ALARM-03?”
Wat linkjes:
Tweakers.net:
Concurrentie: SmartAlarm; ook met beperking IP-only.
Meer domotica dan concurrentie: HomeWizard.
Over het hoe en waarom:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/10/31
A very interesting thread by @doctorow:
Late last week, the @RIAA sent a legal threat to @Github, claiming that the popular (and absolutely lawful) tool #youtubedl (which allows users to download Youtube videos for offline viewing, e……
Source: [WayBack] Thread by @doctorow on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App
More on section 1201: [Wayback] Pluralistic: 24 Oct 2020 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow: RIAA kills youtubedl
There is also a great technical analysis at [Wayback/Archive.is] Analysis of the RIAA claims against youtube-dl · GitHub
This write-up follows the code paths in youtube-dl that get executed when you try to run it based on the claims of RIAA has put forward. This is a technical analysis, not a legal one.
via
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/10/30
Album by Kristian Köhntopp: [WayBack/Archive.is] Two ways to unsubscribe from Booking Email Marketing. – Google Photos
Via: [WayBack] Kristian Köhntopp – Google+
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/10/30
$$$$ is the parcel tracking code, and ####AA is the destination postal code without spaces:https://www.dhlparcel.nl/nl/consument/volg-je-pakket?tc=$$$$&pc=####AA&lc=nl-NL$$$$ is the parcel tracking code, and ####AA is the destination postal code without spaces:.postnl.nl/#!/track-en-trace/$$$$/NL/####AAPosted in LifeHacker, Power User | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2020/10/30
I hate applications that globally install Windows shortcut keys without the setup/install either warn about it or make it configurable.
In this case it is about CardMinder Viewer that ships with the Fujitsu ix500 scanner and installs a global shortcut, by default Alt-F3.
CardMinder Viewer is especially bad because the “settings” are not in the application: the settings are part of the Windows notification area (usually on the lower left of your screen; many people call it “the tray” as it was called tray in the Cairo research that led to Windows 95 and Windows NT 3.5).
So here is how to get rid of the Alt–F3 shortcut to be stolen:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/10/29
I used these links to find out what entries a Katalon .gitignore file should contain:
Combining the above, the .gitignore file needs to at least contain:
/.classpath /.project /.settings bin/lib/ Libs/ /bin /Libs .settings .classpath settings/internal /.svn /bin/lib/Temp*.class Reports/ .project /libs/Temp*.groovy bin/lib/ bin/keyword/
(funny that .svn should be in a .gitignore file and that various combinations of casing are used)
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/10/29
I totally missed that this has been added in Delphi a long time ago (at least in Delphi 2007 or maybe even before): the {$EXTENSION zzz} or {$E zzz} Delphi directive that sets the file extension of the output: [WayBack] Executable extension (Delphi 2007)
[WayBack] Executable extension (Delphi 10.3 Rio) – RAD Studio explains this is equivalent to using the -TZ
The documentation explains the zzz to be a string, but in practice, using {$EXTENSION yyy.zzz} and {$E yyy.zzz} fail:
[WayBack] Little funny bug… I wanted to quickly make two x86 EXE builds, with 3GB and normal 2GB of available memory. Just to pass it for heavy testing, as 3rd… – Arioch The – Google+ explains how to use this as a trick to have a different extension for 3GB aware compiled 32-bit executables:
{$DEFINE g3} // or obvious {.$DEFINE g3} {$IFDEF g3} {$SetPEFlags IMAGE_FILE_LARGE_ADDRESS_AWARE} {$EXTENSION 3GB.EXE} {$ENDIF}This kind of work in XE2 but with two funny bugs:
- the IDE ignores it and shows filename.exe in the compile progress dialog
- linker partially ignores it and creates
filename.4gbinstead offilename.3gb.exe
I did know about the various $LIBxxx directives that were introduced in Delphi 2009 when it [WayBack] was released in 2008.
Related:
{$LIBPREFIX 'string'}, {$LIBSUFFIX 'string'}, {$LIBVERSION 'string'}One day, I might create an overview of which directives are valid in what Delphi versions. That would be a big change of List-Delphi-Installed-Packages.ps1, which would need at least these:
–jeroen
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 