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Archive for April, 2024

Scientists Map The Parts Of The Body Where Touching Is Okay

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/04/19

I wonder what these 2015 heat maps are like now that the Covid-19 crisis seems to be behind us (but for how long?): is shaking hands OK again or do you still perform non-physical greetings?

[Wayback/Archive] Scientists Map The Parts Of The Body Where Touching Is Okay:

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Code Visualisation through Python Tutor – Visualise Python, Java, C, C++, JavaScript, TypeScript, and Ruby code execution

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/04/18

The final visualisation post of this week (themed Data Visualisation and Code Visualisation) is about [Wayback/Archive] Python Tutor – Visualize Python, Java, C, C++, JavaScript, TypeScript, and Ruby code execution.

Languages covered in these visualisers:

Earlier posts in the series:

–jeroen

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Tidy Data Tutor – visualize R tidyverse data pipelines

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/04/17

This week seems to be themed around Data Visualisation and Code Visualisation, so after covering Python in Pandas Tutor – visualize Python pandas code, lets continue covering R with [Wayback/Archive] Tidy Data Tutor – visualize R tidyverse data pipelines: Documentation:

Tidy Data Tutor lets you write R and Tidyverse code in your browser and see how your data frame changes at each step of a data analysis pipeline.

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Pandas Tutor – visualize Python pandas code

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/04/16

Learning Python Pandas can be tough so this free resource is of great help: [Wayback/Archive] Pandas Tutor – visualize Python pandas code – documentation:

Pandas Tutor visualizes how Python code transforms dataframes

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Wetend dat veel Twitter reacties bestaan uit externalisering van de innerlijke conflicten van de reageerder kun je die makkelijker negeren

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/04/15

[Wayback/Archive] Sam Gerrits on Twitter: “Had het net met goede vriendin die psychotherapeut is over zeg 25 % van de reacties op Twitter. Las er een paar voor. Zij: “Ze reageren niet op wat je zegt, ze externaliseren hun innerlijke conflict. Dit zie ik ook in mijn behandelkamer. Maar het is mijn vak en ik kan in overleg””.

[Wayback/Archive] Sam Gerrits on Twitter: “Hier een uitleg over externaliseren. Zinvol om in je achterhoofd te houden en om compassie op te kunnen brengen voor zelfs de meest schuimbekkende reacties. Of om ze gewoon naast je neer te kunnen leggen, zonder het idee te hebben dat je er iets mee moet. …”

[Wayback/Archive] Externaliserend gedrag vraagt om kijken naar mogelijkheden | Blik op hulp

–jeroen

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Missende vaccinaties?

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/04/15

Ik heb voor mezelf samen met de huisarts uitgezocht welke vaccinaties ik miste.

Er zaten een paar dingen tegen:

  1. Geboren in 1969 in Brabant en voor mijn 2e via Stolwijk naar de Bollenstreek (beide Zuid-Holland) verhuisd: meerdere provincies en gemeenten tijdens de eerste fase waarin veel vaccinaties worden gegeven
  2. Ouders die helaas niet mijn vaccinatieboekje hebben bewaard (dat van mijn broer wel)
  3. De meeste regio’s/provincies zijn pas vanaf 1970 of nog later (bijvoorbeeld Rotterdam: 1981) rijksvaccinaties gaan registreren (met als positieve uitzondering Amsterdam, Flevoland, Gelderland en Overijssel bijvoorbeeld sinds 1968)
  4. De regio’s zijn niet exact (dus sommige gemeenten zijn later/eerder gestart dan in het overzicht van regio’s staat aangegeven)
  5. Mazelen zat pas sinds 1976 in het rijksvaccinatieprogramma
  6. Waarschijnlijk heb ik geen mazelen gehad (wel weet ik zeker dat ik waterpokken en dubbelzijdige bof heb gehad; die laatste is net niet overgeslagen op hersenvliesontsteking)
  7. Kinkhoest bescherming door vaccinatie maar beperkte duur heeft, maar het voor mijn gesteldheid erg vervelend zou zijn als ik dat krijg

De afgesproken aanvulling:

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Bereavement or grief do not just take place after death, adverse life changing events are also cause for them.

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/04/12

Below are some Dutch messages around bereavement and grief that take place before someone dies: it is important to be aware that adverse life changing events are also reasons for those emotions. Besides patients and their close ones, also medical professionals and care takers can grief as they too need to find a way to adjust to the new situation.

[Wayback/Archive] Rob Bruntink on Twitter: “Ik sprak met Manu Keirse over de vraag wat zorgverleners kunnen betekenen voor rouwenden. Mooi aan zijn antwoord is oa dat hij rouw niet uitsluitend koppelt aan de periode ná een overlijden. ‘Rouw begint direct bij het slechtnieuwsgesprek’.”

[Wayback/Archive] Manu Keirse: ‘De zorgverlener rouwt mee’ – Dutch Health Hub

A related English post is [Wayback/Archive] How Survivors Can Cope With Grief After Cancer | Cancer.Net

When you first learned of your cancer diagnosis, grief may have been one of the many feelings you experienced. It is natural to grieve when we go through loss or change—whether it is the loss of who you were before your diagnosis or the loss of physical body parts. And since cancer often results in many losses—expected and unexpected—grief is naturally part of the experience.

--jeroen

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Ivan Kuleshov on GitHub – Uptime-Lab/KVM-rack-stand-for-16-Mac-minis

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/04/11

In-rackIf you ever need a large bunch of Mac minis in a data center, then start reading at [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – Uptime-Lab/KVM-rack-stand-for-16-Mac-minis.

The repository by Ivan Kuleshov has all information you need, including scripts for Pi-KVM, and 3D printing STL source files.

It was covered in [Wayback/Archive] The MagPi issue 139 — The MagPi magazine (direct [Wayback/Archive] MagPi139.pdf; it’s too large for [Wayback] Goole Docs on-line viewing).

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webcamoid/webcamoid: Webcamoid is a full featured and multiplatform webcam suite.

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/04/11

This is cool and works well (including the portable version) :[Wayback/Archive] webcamoid/webcamoid: Webcamoid is a full featured and multiplatform webcam suite.

Most code is C++ with bits using the QML language of the Qt cross platform UI library.

It reminded me of the Kylix days: the first Linux version of Delphi where the CLX GUI framework was a rework of VCL but based on Qt instead of Win32 GDI.

The downloads are at [Wayback/Archive] Webcamoid, The ultimate webcam suite! with installable and portable versions of 32-bit and 64-bit for Linux, Mac and Windows (I have tried the latter, see below why).

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The toxic reactions to “What would be good alternatives to Stack Overflow for questions about software solutions to drive hardware? – Meta Stack Overflow”

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/04/10

The toxic reactions to [Wayback/Archive] What would be good alternatives to Stack Overflow for questions about software solutions to drive hardware? – Meta Stack Overflow were surely inviting to never ever try and help improving StackOverflow again.

Lesson learned: Stack Overflow won’t ever be the welcoming environment it was 15 years ago and the toxicity will make it slowly become obsolete.

Hopefully the smaller Stack Exchange sites will take a long while to go in that direction.

Via [Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers @wiert@mastodon.social on X: “The @StackOverflow toxicity: you start a discussion on meta to get better guidance for the community at large. – 13 downvotes & counting – a bunch of comments of which the majority is not helpful – no answers Deleting 429663. Never trying to help improving the situation again.”

--jeroen

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