Archive for August, 2023
Posted by jpluimers on 2023/08/14
For my link archive:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2023/08/11
I’m not alone in feeling hated by printers and multifunctionals.
I had already seen this 2019 comic [Archive.is] System32Comics on Twitter: “Printers nowadays… “ quite a while ago:
- User: Hey printer, can you please print this document?
- Printer: Low on Cyan
- User: Don’t worry, it’s just a black and white text
- Printer: No fuck you, low on Cyan
Printers and the drivers shipped by manufacturers hate me so much, that I now have the habit of using older printers which are better supported out-of-the-box by modern operating systems, hence this tweet:
[Archive.is] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers on Twitter: “I try to avoid using the software provided by the printer manufacturer. Usually stock PCL or PostScript drivers work fine.… “
Thanks to [Archive.is] Matt Schultz 😷 on Twitter: “Seems about right… … “, I found out that early 2021 Stevie Martin came along with this hilarious video [Archive.is] “when you’re trying to print something”:
https://twitter.com/5teviem/status/1367868899681832965
And of course the System32Comics version was commented immediately: [Archive.is] Mr. Dubi and Dr. Kan on Twitter: “… “ (:
But also a few other nice comments were made that I had not known of before:
I got at that thread because of [Archive.is] Troy Hunt on Twitter: “No? Yes? The UX in this @Epson printer is undoubtedly one of the worst I’ve ever seen. Just insane. (Near new ET-16600 FWIW.)… :
Title: Confirmation
Text: The wired LAN connection is disabled when using a Wi-Fi connection.
Buttons: Close, No, Yes
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2023/08/10
Yesterday, I wrote about Learn to program the gradual way: Welcome to Hedy! and today is the next installment: about numerals.
[Archive] /Fay-lee-nuh/ (@Felienne) | Twitter kind of by surprise discovered that the ten numerical digits of the decimal numeral system used in virtually all programming languages are not the original Arabic forms.
Supporting other forms of decimal numerals will help learning to program when your background is non-English or even using ten systems outside the Arabic numeral realm so common in Latin alphabets. And they are a fun learning exercise for every body too!
Some of the related Tweets on this:
Some more related Wikipedia links:
In the Unicode pages, look for “numeral”, “number”, and “numeric” (or just for “num”).
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2023/08/09
Cool way to learn programming in a gradual way which works adults just as well as for kids: [Wayback/Archive] Felienne/hedy
Hedy is a gradual programming language to teach children programming. Gradual languages use different language levels, where each level adds new concepts and syntactic complexity. At the end of the Hedy level sequence, kids master a subset of syntactically valid Python.
[Wayback/Archive] Welcome to Hedy! – hedycode.com
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Posted by jpluimers on 2023/08/08
Via Jan Gentleman, I learned
- about the Ctrl+⇧ Shift+⊞ Win+B shortcut on Windows 10 and 11 that restarts starts video driver
- that documentation is in [Wayback/Archive] Troubleshoot black screen or blank screen errors as
Action 1: Try a Windows Key sequence to wake the screen.
If you’re using a device with a keyboard connected to it, select Windows logo key + Ctrl + Shift + B. If you’re in tablet mode, press the volume-up and volume-down buttons simultaneously three times within two seconds. If Windows is responsive, a short beep will sound and the screen will blink or dim while Windows attempts to refresh the screen.
Via:
Later I found out it also is in Table of keyboard shortcuts – Wikipedia: General shortcuts
| Restart Video Driver |
Windows 10: Ctrl+⇧ Shift+⊞ Win+B[2][3] |
Also I learned how people order the modifier keys is varying.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2023/08/04
For my link archive: [Archive] Begrepen Klachten (@Begrepenklacht) / Twitter
Ondersteuning van patiënten met langdurige (onvoldoende verklaarde) lichamelijke klachten. Ik blog over mijn ervaringen als arts en patiënt.
@marliesvhemert
Via: [Archive] Begrepen Klachten on Twitter: “@PelagieHortense ME/CVS, Ziekte van Lyme, Q-koorts, vitamine B12 deficiëntie, endometriose, migraine, fibromyalgie, whiplash, Prikkelbare darmsyndroom, Ziekte van Hashimoto, ACNES, hEDS, CRPS, clusterhoofdpijn, tinnitus,…. Long COVID is niets nieuws, maar het is wel enorm triest.” / Twitter
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2023/08/03
I didn’t know about analytics.twitter.com. It cannot be archived in the WayBack machine or Archive Today (because of http 307 redirects without a logged on Twitter account), but it gives analytics of your past twitter behaviour.
The about link does archive though: [Wayback/Archive] Twitter Analytics: about.
Via [Archive] An on Twitter: “@Walrathis al even gekeken op analytics.twitter.com?” / Twitter
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2023/08/02
For my link archive, the table of contents of [Wayback/Archive/Archive] Searching code – GitHub Docs:
Limitations apply:
Due to the complexity of searching code, there are some restrictions on how searches are performed:
- You must be signed into a user account on GitHub to search for code across all public repositories.
- Code in forks is only searchable if the fork has more stars than the parent repository. Forks with fewer stars than the parent repository are not indexed for code search. To include forks with more stars than their parent in the search results, you will need to add
fork:true or fork:only to your query. For more information, see “Searching in forks.”
- Only the default branch is indexed for code search.
- Only files smaller than 384 KB are searchable.
- Only repositories with fewer than 500,000 files are searchable.
- Only repositories that have had activity or have been returned in search results in the last year are searchable.
- Except with
filename searches, you must always include at least one search term when searching source code. For example, searching for language:javascript is not valid, while amazing language:javascript is.
- At most, search results can show two fragments from the same file, but there may be more results within the file.
- You can’t use the following wildcard characters as part of your search query:
. , : ; / \ ` ' " = * ! ? # $ & + ^ | ~ < > ( ) { } [ ] @. The search will simply ignore these symbols.
There is a truckload of languages supported, though the yaml format of the list is not really human readable: [Wayback/Archive] linguist/languages.yml at master · github/linguist
I’ll try this and see if it works better than Google Search.
Via:
–jeroen
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