Posted by jpluimers on 2025/07/16
I originally missed this as back then I was in the midst of managing trouble in my parental family, unaware I was already having rectum cancer. Then things went fast, not even including the Covid-19 years, so I was glad last year I got reminded of this mid-2019 article:
[Wayback/Archive] Alan Turing Wrote Object-Oriented Code In C And Ran It On BEAM – De Programmatica Ipsum writes a lot of interesting things on programming paradigms, starting with
In his rare 1994 book “Object-Oriented Programming In C” Axel Tobias Schreiner explains how to do inheritance, class methods, class hierarchies, and even how to raise exceptions using nothing else than pure, simple, pointer arithmetic-filled, ANSI C.
then arguing basically most of not all modern languages share the majority of programming paradigms and all these paradigms are repeats of the past:
But none of this is new. Smalltalk, arguably the precursor of object orientation, had collect and select methods which were the grandparents of our more common map and filter functional friends.
What sets modern languages apart is that they the majority covers all the paradigms you might need, just differing in how well they support the paradigm-du-jour.
It means programming language wars should have been a thing of the past for about two decades now.
Please let that sink in.
Oh: if you look for that ANSI C book, here it is: [Wayback/Archive] https://www.cs.rit.edu/~ats/books/ooc.pdf [Wayback PDF View/PDF View]
Via: [Wayback/Archive] De Programmatica Ipsum: “”In his rare 1994 book “Object…” – mas.to
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/03/28
For me, it is always difficult to navigate to the Amazon help pages where you can reach their chat.
These are some of the links; follow the pattern to figure out which domain part you need to replace to get to your local ones:
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/17
Download & transfer via USB Transfer Tip: After downloading, use your USB cable to connect your computer and Kindle. Your Kindle will appear as a drive on your computer. Copy your downloaded file from your computer to your Kindle’s documents folder. ❗️Starting 26 February 2025, the ‘Download & Transfer via USB’ option will no longer be available. You can still send Kindle books to your Wi-Fi enabled devices by selecting the ‘Deliver or Remove from Device’ option. Learn more about managing downloads
Amazon will disable downloading of Kindle books after 2025-02-25 (yup: slightly more than a week!):
(image on the right via Jan Wildeboer)
Edit 20250224: steps to convert from Kindle 1.17 on MacOS or Windows in 3 Ways to Convert Kindle to PDF for Free.
It allowed me to convert everything to PDF except one book which I found a free PDF of at [Wayback/Archive] Linear Algebra Done Right as [Wayback/Archive] linear.axler.net/LADR4e.pdf [Wayback PDF View/PDF View] via [WaybackSave/Archive] Sheldon Axler on X: “The free Kindle version of the fourth edition of my book Linear Algebra Done Right is now available at www.amazon.com/Linear-Algebra-Right-Undergraduate-Mathematics-ebook/dp/B0DDT4WVRD. The free pdf version of the book is available at linear.axler.net. The free translation into Chinese is also available as a pdf file at linear.axler.net“ ¹
Back to the original:
Table with URLs for your Kindle libraries where you can download manually based on https://www.amazon.com/hz/mycd/digital-console/contentlist/booksAll/dateDsc/ which I got form the below mentioned download tools:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/14
Running Kubernetes containers on Windows means taking into account a different can of worms than running them on Linux.
For example [Wayback/Archive] Fun with Windows Containers – Popping Calc explains about the various isolation levels and privileges (through runAsUserName) and this helpful advice:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/06
Hopelijk lukt dit iemand van de grond te krijgen, maar het zal wel stranden in regelgeving (net als GPT-NL wat tegen licentieproblemen aan loopt¹ en GEITje – wat vanwege licentieproblemen uit de lucht gehaald is ²) [Wayback/Archive] Mailen en communiceren zonder Musk en Trump: Cloud Kootwijk – Bert Hubert’s writings.
Via onder meer:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/03
Yup, I have been in the Ring ecosystem since way before Amazon took them over, and it is kind of hard to part from the useful cameras, so here is for my link archive: [Wayback/Archive] Latest Products/Feature Request Board topics – Ring Community
Via two suggestions I did:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/12/27
A while ago there was an interesting point of using tiered md to both obtain low read latency and write safety on the Google Cloud Platform in [Wayback/Archive] How Discord Supercharges Network Disks for Extreme Low Latency
It is an interesting approach to universally tune performance within the sketched boundaries, but raised some questions as their aim was improving ScyllaDB performance and Unix-like platforms on Google Cloud Platform can supports ZFS.
In this case Discord wanted to improve their ScyllaDB that was already read/written from GCP Persistent Storage and used tiered md to improve that.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/12/18
At the end of 2020, in the midst of the Covid-19 crisis, [Wayback/Archive] den (@DennisCode) / Twitter started [Wayback/Archive] Engineering Festivus
The only thing 2020 needed is Seinfeld making a career change and getting into tech.
It is a series of IT parodies that at the time of writing just had its’ 35th episode: [Wayback/Archive] den on Twitter: “Kubernetes.”
Kubernetes
Kramer decided to use Kubernetes for his website. Jerry tries to explain what that entails. Kramer is adamant to do it all himself.
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