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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 437 – IBM 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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IEEE Spectrum: Old Smartphones Get New Life as Tiny Data Centers Even 15-year-old phones can still outperform IoT-specific devices

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/07/13

[Wayback/Archive] IEEE Spectrum: Old Smartphones Get New Life as Tiny Data Centers Even 15-year-old phones can still outperform IoT-specific devices

Via: [Wayback/Archive] Joaquim Homrighausen on X: “”Old Smartphones Get New Life as Tiny Data Centers” 🤔 🧐 https://t.co/rWWwCe7nBU #smartphones #datacenter #devops #hacking #clustercomputing #computing #research”

--jeroen

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Voorraad problemen met fexofenadine en andere hooikoortsmediciatie bij apotheken

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/07/13

Ik las dit, na een dramatisch slecht begin van het hooikoortsseizoen wat bij mij van maart tot en met oktober loopt, te laat: [Wayback/Archive] Mogelijk minder voorraad van hooikoortsmedicijnen bij jouw apotheek – VND

De tekorten gaan om deze medicijnen tegen allergie:

  • Levocetirizine (tablet 5 mg)
  • Promethazine (tablet 25 mg)
  • Acrivastine (capsule 8 mg)
  • Fexofenadine (tablet 180 mg)

…

Ook nog steeds tekort aan salbutamol

Wat apotheken niet doen, ik heb er meerdere gehad, is behalve vertellen dat een medicijn besteld moet worden, wat de globale levertijd gaat zijn.

Twee dingen die ik ga doen:

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