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It was all Greek to me: Iota · golang/go

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/05/21

Context is king!

Being Dutch, my association with iota was the phrase “Ik snap er geen iota van” (English: “It’s all Greek to me”), basically indicating iota is extremely small, similar to [WayBack] Iota | Definition of Iota by Merriam-Webster:

1: an infinitesimal amount : jot  (did not show an iota of interest)
2: the 9th letter of the Greek alphabet — see alphabet table

But the first time, I saw iota used in golang, I actually confused it with [WayBack] itoa – C++ Reference, because I am more than slightly wordblind.

So code like this was all Greek to me at first, not understanding the conversion from integer to ASCII**, and slightly later, not understanding iota to be extremely small either. Heck, its usage indicates it is small from infinitesimal:

const (
    _           = iota // ignore first value by assigning to blank identifier
    KB ByteSize = 1 << (10 * iota)
    MB
    GB
    TB
    PB
    EB
    ZB
    YB
)

So it took me a bit of thought to realise that it actually had to mean something completely different, so I found

It makes me wonder why they named it like this.

Slightly related:

–jeroen

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draft-ietf-appsawg-http-forwarded-10 – Forwarded HTTP Extension (X-Forwarded-For, X-Forwarded-By, and X-Forwarded-Proto)

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/05/21

Since many HTTP stacks do not have fields for this so it’s hard to get the originating IP address:

It is about these HTTP header fields with and without X- prefix:

  • Forwarded
  • X-Forwarded-For
  • X-Forwarded-By
  • X-Forwarded-Proto

Note that widely used tools like HAProxy do not always fully adhere to the “standard”…

Via:

–jeroen

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Delphi XE8 introduced the dependency directive, but it’s not for Windows

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/05/21

Interesting thread that shows Delphi XE8 introduced a dependency directive: [WayBack] Just curious, in which version was the dependency directive introduced? As in procedure X; external ‘somelib’ dependecy ‘otherlib’; S… – Johan Bontes – Google+

It’s documented as of XE8: [WayBack] Procedures and Functions (Delphi) – RAD Studio: Specifying Dependencies of the Library

The earliest use I could find is in XE4 source C:\Program Files (x86)\Embarcadero\RAD Studio\11.0\source\IBX\IBIntf.pas

–jeroen

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Amazon.com: Kaimebien I Before E Weird Grammar Teacher 11 Ounces Coffee Mug: Kitchen & Dining

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/05/20

Want: mug of [WayBack] Weird Meme on me.me:
I Before E
Except When Your Feisty Foreign Neighbor Keith Leisurely Receives Eight Counterfeit Beige Sleighs From Caffeinated Atheist Weightlifters
Weird

Via:

See also I before E except after C – Wikipedia

Mug: [WayBack] Amazon.com: Kaimebien I Before E Weird Grammar Teacher 11 Ounces Coffee Mug: Kitchen & Dining

–jeroen

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Relay based computers…

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/05/20

Cool hardware: [WayBack] click-click-click-click-click-CHUNK… – Joe C. Hecht – Google+

Sources:

–jeroen

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Handy interactive map of the periodic system – elements.wlonk.com

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/05/20

Handy interactive map of the periodic system: [WayBack] elements.wlonk.com

via: [WayBack] Interactive Periodic Table.Wonderful. Identify the typical uses for each element as you scroll over it.http://elements.wlonk.com/ElementsTable.htm – Lars Fosdal – Google+

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How to clear screen artifacts without rebooting Windows (multiple versions) – Super User

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/05/20

  1. go to control panel | display
  2. change the screen resolution. the artifact will go away
  3. click on cancel when windows asks you if you want to keep the new resolution.

this works on laptops too.

[WayBack] User mahesh – Super User answering [WayBack] How to clear screen artifacts without rebooting Windows (multiple versions) – Super User

–jeroen

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Not sure if this btrfs error was benign or not.

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/05/17

Booting the VM gave this in the log:

# btrfs balance /
WARNING:

    Full balance without filters requested. This operation is very
    intense and takes potentially very long. It is recommended to
    use the balance filters to narrow down the scope of balance.
    Use 'btrfs balance start --full-balance' option to skip this
    warning. The operation will start in 10 seconds.
    Use Ctrl-C to stop it.
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
Starting balance without any filters.
ERROR: error during balancing '/': Input/output error
There may be more info in syslog - try dmesg | tail
diaspore:~# dmesg | tail
[ 2261.857360] BTRFS info (device sda2): found 144 extents
[ 2261.922014] BTRFS info (device sda2): found 144 extents
[ 2262.003653] BTRFS info (device sda2): found 144 extents
[ 2262.146557] BTRFS info (device sda2): found 144 extents
[ 2262.268034] BTRFS info (device sda2): relocating block group 20951597056 flags data
[ 2268.255631] BTRFS info (device sda2): found 19765 extents
[ 2278.541549] BTRFS info (device sda2): found 19758 extents
[ 2278.685372] BTRFS info (device sda2): relocating block group 14558429184 flags data
[ 2278.714483] BTRFS warning (device sda2): csum failed root -9 ino 269 off 65150976 csum 0x27374190 expected csum 0x7091fbbc mirror 1
[ 2278.714619] BTRFS warning (device sda2): csum failed root -9 ino 269 off 65150976 csum 0x27374190 expected csum 0x7091fbbc mirror 1

Booting from a rescue DVD, then checking with an unmounted /dev/sda2 nothing is wrong:

localhost:~ # btrfs check /dev/sda2
Checking filesystem on /dev/sda2
UUID: 23d33d0f-0468-4408-b73c-b0eec9387d82
checking extents
checking free space cache
checking fs roots
checking csums
checking root refs
checking quota groups
found 6460166144 bytes used, no error found
total csum bytes: 5795704
total tree bytes: 214171648
total fs tree bytes: 193740800
total extent tree bytes: 12910592
btree space waste bytes: 40754145
file data blocks allocated: 35720101888
 referenced 11352182784

Both had the same version:

# btrfs version
btrfs-progs v4.13

If I ever need recovery, then these links likely help:

–jeroen

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Formulier SVB PGB voor IBAN-wijziging van een zorgverlener en zorgverleningsovereenkomst versies en met en zonder familie

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/05/17

LET OP! Per zorgverleningsovereenkomst, moet je OOK een zorgbeschrijving indienen: zorgbeschrijving naar zogkantoor, zorgverleningsovereenkomst naar zorgkantoor en SVB.

Buiten SVB om:

  • [WayBack/Archive.is] Zorgkantoor Zorg en Zekerheid: Zorgbeschrijvingen en zorgovereenkomsten: Website van de Zorgkantoren Zuid-Holland Noord & Amstelland en de Meerlanden, met informatie over de AWBZ, het zorgaanbod in de regio, zorgverstrekking en eigen bijdrage, het persoons gebonden budget etc. Het zorgkantoor is verantwoordelijk voor de uitvoering van AWBZ-zorg in de regio.
    • Sinds 2014 geldt er een maximum tarief van € 20,- per uur voor niet-professionele zorgverleners. Dit speciale tarief voor niet-professionele zorgverlening is van toepassing wanneer:
      • een ouder of familielid zorg levert, ook als deze hiervoor wel gediplomeerd is, of;
      • de zorgverlener niet beschikt over een zogenaamde BIG-registratie, of;
      • de zorgverlener of instelling niet is ingeschreven in het handelsregister als zijnde verlener van zorg.
    • Het speciale tarief voor niet-professionele zorgverleners geldt niet wanneer u al PGB genoot voor 2014.
  • [Archive.is] PGB | Vraag en Antwoord | Deskundig | Gratis Dé specialist persoonsgebonden budget (PGB) geeft (met 20 jaar ervaring) op deze pagina snel en correct antwoord op PGB vragen.

–jeroen

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The Initialization-Block of a unit that is part of a package. Is it run as part of DLLMain?

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/05/16

The interesting question a while back [WayBack] The Initialization-Block of a unit that is part of a package. Is it run as part of DLLMain? – Alexander Benikowski – Google+ has a simple TL;DR answer: “it depends” on the actual usage of those units.

Way more elaborate, as I dislike language stuff that you need to track down by trial and error what is actually used:

Alexander Benikowski
Well, seems so(in our case). Rootcall which triggers the initialization is:
ntdll.ldrLoadDLL
I did not mention, that the BPL is used by a DLL(DLL links against package) which means the package is loaded/initialized by the Os when the DLLMain runs. Odd combination but that seems to be the culprit here.

David Heffernan
Yes, it is triggered from DllMain. And yes, this has massive consequences for what can and cannot be done in initialization sections.

Alexander Benikowski
+David Heffernan in my case. When a packages unit is already initialized by being used from an Exe(which links to the Package), it is not from within a DLLMain.
In my case, both the Application and the dll it loads, both link to the same package. But the unit in question is unused until the DLL is loaded.

Uwe Raabe
The docs for InitializePackage say it calls the initialization parts of all contained units in the package – not only the used ones.

David Heffernan
+Alexander Benikowski​ In that scenario we have load time linking and I guess the package framework handles it differently.

David Millington
Related: don’t forget that class constructors and destructors effectively run in the initialization and finalization sections too. Restrictions or side effects apply there too. docwiki.embarcadero.com – Methods (Delphi) – RAD Studio

Stefan Glienke
+Uwe Raabe Which is not being done when you use it as runtime package. Only initialization sections from unit being used are being run. This caused us several problems in the past where 2 modules (A being the host application exe and B being some DLL that gets loaded at a later point via LoadLibrary) were using a runtime package but only B used a particular unit from the package which caused the initialization code for that unit being executed when B was loaded and hence being executed in the context of the dllmain of B.

The usual solution is then to put those units into some dummy unit forcing the initialization of that unit to be run in A.

Another solution according to your statement could be to call InitializePackage on all the used runtime packages – and there the question is: couldn’t the RTL do that somehow?

Uwe Raabe
+Stefan Glienke I am not sure if that is desirable when done unconditionally. Even when compiled with packages I wouldn’t expect units to be initialized which aren’t actually used. That would perhaps change the behavior of the application depending on whether it is compile with runtime packages or without.
The case is different with dynamic loaded packages. The units in there are obviously not directly used in the first place. As no one can know which units of such a package are used or not, initializing all of them seems like a viable decision.
Of course there will be situations where your proposed behavior might come in handy, but I doubt that this will be a fit for all.

Source: The Initialization-Block of a unit that is part of a package. Is it run as pa…

Related:

–jeroen

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