Important code optimisation thought: [Wayback/Archive] Programming Quotes: “No code is faster than no code. — merb motto” – Mastodon
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Programming Quotes: “No code is faster than no code…” – Mastodon
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/31
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PoshCode/PowerShellPracticeAndStyle: The Unofficial PowerShell Best Practices and Style Guide
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/31
For my link archive, the source code [Wayback/Archive] PoshCode/PowerShellPracticeAndStyle: The Unofficial PowerShell Best Practices and Style Guide and on-line “book” version that starts with:
[Wayback/Archive] About this Guide – PowerShell Practice and Style
It covers many topics grouped into a Style Guide and Best Practices:
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CrazyMyra: “After AI took his job as an online assistant, Mr Clippy was obliged to seek work in other sectors…” – beige.party
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/30
I love the new title-text for the 2018 “Clippy” picture at [Wayback/Archive] CrazyMyra: “After AI took his job as an online assistant, Mr Clippy was obliged to seek work in other sectors…” – beige.party
A metal toilet paper holder in a corner od a bathro,with an empty roll, that looks similar to a large paperclip
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Saving an era of indie games: Ruffle – an Adobe Flash Player written in Rust compiled to WebAssembly
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/30
I forgot this was in the queue: [Wayback/Archive] ruffle-rs/ruffle: A Flash Player emulator written in Rust.
It is cool and plays a lot of Adobe Flash content and supports quite a bit of the underlying ActionScript language.
I really wish the web version could play web.archive.org/web/20160706140910oe_/http://games.erdener.org/laser/laser.swf (older), web.archive.org/web/20061211011310/http://www.gamuz.com/jeux/laser.swf (newer) or web.archive.org/web/20030827220214oe_/http://www.lurghi.net/laser/laser.swf (newest) but alas when running from https://ruffle.rs/demo/, that SWF is trying to download https://ruffle.rs/demo/config.txt some 20-30 times per second.
Maybe there is a workaround, as I have only tried the [Wayback/Archive] Ruffle Web Demo page (which is the easiest way to get started).
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Without prior warning, Twitter shares your data with grok AI, even for EU Twitter users
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/27
Mentioned this on various social media already yesterday, as then suddenly – even for EU users, which is against their GDPR regulations – Twitter turned on data sharing with Grok AI of your Twitter data at x.com/settings/grok_settings (direct settings link) without given prior warning at all
I got this default setting despite living in The Netherlands and Twitter knowing that:
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Figuring out what domains/IPs to whitelist for installing/updating winget sources and packages
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/25
A few years ago I asked for some help figuring out what to whitelist so that winget can update its sources and install packages.
This is how I found out.
The queste started with [Wayback/Archive] Need help trying to figure out what domains/IPs to whitelist for installing packages · Discussion #2304 · microsoft/winget-cli
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David Fowler on Twitter: “Playing around with using static interface methods and the new IParsable to make generic callsites for HTTP APIs. Before .NET 7 there was no way to write generic code that did {Type}.TryParse/{Type}.Parse. The type system didn’t have a way to describe these contracts. #dotnet”
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/25
Reminder to check out this [Wayback/Archive] David Fowler on Twitter: “Playing around with using static interface methods and the new IParsable to make generic callsites for HTTP APIs. Before .NET 7 there was no way to write generic code that did {Type}.TryParse/{Type}.Parse. The type system didn’t have a way to describe these contracts. #dotnet” (and OCR the images):
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Goldman Sachs: AI Is Overhyped, Wildly Expensive, and Unreliable
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/24
If even companies that normally charge a fukcton of money* to advise the obvious gets it, why are so many still falling for it?
[Wayback/Archive] Goldman Sachs: AI Is Overhyped, Wildly Expensive, and Unreliable
“Despite its expensive price tag, the technology is nowhere near where it needs to be in order to be useful for even such basic tasks”
Via [Wayback/Archive] tldr.nettime – tante: “”What this means in plain Engl…”
“What this means in plain English is that one of the largest financial institutions in the world is seeing what people who are paying attention are seeing with their eyes: Companies are acting like generative AI is going to change the world and are acting as such, while the reality is that this is a technology that is currently deeply unreliable and may not change much of anything at all.”
(Original title: Goldman Sachs: AI Is Overhyped, Wildly Expensive, and Unreliable)
- do I really need to mention the USD 4 million contact for figuring out that for NYC, putting garbage bags on OTTO garbage wheelie bins would on the streets would work better than putting plain garbage bags on the streets?
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PowerMac G5 ATX Gaming PC Case Mod | by Patrick Robert Doyle | Medium
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/24
Cool idea: [Wayback/Archive] PowerMac G5 ATX Gaming PC Case Mod | by Patrick Robert Doyle | Medium
Some of the links from that article which I have archived:
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Need to give this some thought: Poor Man’s Auto Update. by Chris Bensen | by Chris Bensen
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/23
Sometimes you need a relatively low-tech solution for updating.
I will need to give this some thought: [Wayback/Archive] Poor Man’s Auto Update. by Chris Bensen | by Chris Bensen | Jun, 2022 | Medium
Back then I posted some edits on Twitter which by now should be reflected in the script and GitHub repository at [Wayback/Archive] chris-blogs/PoorManAutoUpdate.md at main · chrisbensen/chris-blogs (with script at [Wayback/Archive] chris-blogs/updater.sh at main · chrisbensen/chris-blogs)
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