Posted by jpluimers on 2018/01/26
This is tool funny, especially how he got it on the machine: [WayBack] foone on Twitter: I’m FINALLY ready to turn my old computer in to IT. They have to power on all turned in computers to make sure they’re functional before they recycle them, so they’re in for a small surprise. Windows 3.0 running on MS-DOS 6.22!…
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/01/15
This is so cool!
And yes: I can. Even with the big cymbals (:
–jeroen
There is another one with timpani:
And of course there is the live version (9 minutes!)
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/01/12
[WayBack] What happens when a huge number of people share a single grocery store loyalty card? – The Old New Thing
An interesting discussion in the comments besides this interesting article observation:
What messes up their data analysis is when two people with different lifestyles swap cards. The system sees that somebody who used to buy yogurt and bulk brewer’s yeast is now buying potato chips and frozen pizzas, and it can’t figure out what is going on.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/01/11
Happy “Learn Your Name in Morse Code Day”
–jeroen
Audio via [WayBack] https://morsecode.scphillips.com/translator.html
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/01/01
A new year, a new start for our guest network: it is now called “Disconnected”.
Best wishes for 2018!
May your confusion be infinite (:
–jeroen
PS: Thanks Thomas Mueller for referring me to the idea: 🤣😂
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/01/01
Happy new year!
I dunno, It works on my machine. Ship it.
Operations: how the fuck did this ever work
O’RLY? – Damn Time Zones – Names Are Impossible – Off by One Errors
–jeroen
via: [WayBack] #devops #sysadmin #IT #life – Lars Fosdal – Google+
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/12/31
Via: [WayBack] It’s a German thing, you wouldn’t understand. „Dinner for one“ am 31.12 … 12 mal… – Kristian Köhntopp – Google+
In case you are still interested (I think it is an hilarious sketch):
–jeroen
Sorry this post became victim to the “Missed Schedule” issue (I finally found out there is a ridiculous limit of 100 scheduled posts over which scheduling becomes unreliable; this limit used to be much much larger in the past).
[WayBack] Warning: Please do not schedule more than 100 posts. Any posts scheduled beyond that amount will not be published.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/12/29
cyber- (prefix): (1) A linguistic cue informing the reader that the meaning of the word to follow should only be construed in the context of vaguely imminent threats and the need for more federal funding. (2) Something “computery.”
via: [WayBack] cyber- (prefix): (1) A linguistic cue informing the reader that the meaning of…
Many more words are here:
The New Devil’s Dictionary: 249 words for the end of the world
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/12/13
A nice article [Archive.is] What is thread safety anyway? with a kind reference to the Deadlock Empire translation from C# to Delphi that I made.
In any language, multi-threading is hard, so I really love the quote below:
[WayBack] Multithreading can be hard to do right. The most common point of failure is assuming some code is thread safe when it actually is not... – Dalija Prasnikar – Google+
It reminded me of an old one:
A programmer had a problem. He thought to himself, “I know, I’ll solve it with threads!”. has Now problems. two he
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/11/02
(Usually the “state transfer” in Representational state transfer fails)
Video via +Kristian Köhntopp “Die 90er haben angerufen und wollen ihre Amiga Videos und ihre Corba Specs zurück haben.” (the 90s called wanting their Amiga Videos and Corba Specs back)
[WayBack] https://plus.google.com/+KristianK%C3%B6hntopp/posts/58D9BisX5Dj
–jeroen
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