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[Wayback/Archive] Andrea on Twitter: “Mooi. Uit een interview met Manu Keirse. Wat een prachtige quote. “
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Manu Keirse: Raakt een mens het verdriet over een overleden dierbare ooit kwijt?
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/13
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Latest Products/Feature Request Board topics – Ring Community
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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Old programming books had cool little “puns” in their references, modern lack them in their indices. On the why, and history of them.
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/01
I wrote a two earlier blog posts around puns in programming book indices before:
- the 1992 Turbo Pascal 7.0 Language Guide having both entry in the manual about Recursion (“recursive loop, see recursive loop”) which of course is similar to “infinite loop” and entries for “infinite loop See loop, infinite” and “loop, infinite See infinite loop”.
- infinite loop in “LaTeX: A Document Preparation System” by Leslie Lamport, printed in 1994.
In the last one, I promised to list more occurrences which I now finally had time for to do.
But let me first elaborate more on the observation that modern computer books (like for instance on C# and Delphi beyond version 1) lack these kinds of index pun.
On the Delphi side, the index entry joke for recursion got removed no later than Delphi 3 (I am still looking for a Delphi 2 version of the Object Pascal Language Guide, see further below) even before the book being fully redone electronically and the index pages generation being automated in
I think I even understand why that is: the process of creating of indices. By the start of this century, more and more indices were automatically being generated and for the last 2 decades or so, all of them are. Back in the days however, indices were mostly done by hand. Nowadays, with everything automated, it is actually pretty tricky in most environments to add such an “infinite loop” index entry like in the Turbo Pascal book, as it would require two things at once:
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Belastingdienst: Postadres doorgeven
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/12/30
Edit 20250213: let op! Op MacOS met Preview: vul niet het formulier als formulier in, maar gebruik text-annotations voor de tekstvelden. Want anders ben je met printen 80% van je informatie kwijt
Edit 20250830: vul bij “Uw huidige adres” het nieuwe adres in (de betekenis van “Uw huidige adres” is bij invullen voor het verhuizen anders dan na het verhuizen; de belastingdienst gaat er vanuit dat het na het verhuizen wordt ingevuld)
Zie screenshots onderaan de blogpost afkomstig van [WaybackSave/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers @wiert@mastodon.social on X: “Screenshots: – links met … van @Belastingdienst ingevuld om een postadres door te geven – rechts wat er uit de printer komt (of print naar PDF) MacOS. Laatste updates. Eerste screenshot: pagina 1 Tweede screenshot: pagina 2 #WhyCantWeHaveNiceThings “
Screenshots:
– links met https://download.belastingdienst.nl/belastingdienst/docs/postadres_doorgeven_al0791z3fol.pdf van @Belastingdienst ingevuld om een postadres door te geven
– rechts wat er uit de printer komt (of print naar PDF)MacOS. Laatste updates.
Eerste screenshot: pagina 1
Tweede screenshot: pagina 2
Originele tekst
[Wayback/Archive] Postadres doorgeven
[Wayback/Archive] download.belastingdienst.nl/belastingdienst/docs/postadres_doorgeven_al0791z3fol.pdf [Wayback PDF View/PDF View]
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U kunt dit formulier alleen gebruiken als u in Nederland woont of als uw onderneming, stichting of vereniging in Nederland is gevestigd.U kunt het formulier gebruiken in de volgende situaties:
- U wilt onze post ontvangen op een ander adres dan uw woonadres of vestigingsadres.
- U wilt voor onze post een ander postadres doorgeven.
- U wilt uw postadres weer veranderen naar uw woonadres of vestigingsadres.
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Radio 10 Webcam – Radio 10 Live beeld – MyOnlineRadio
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/12/27
De enige Radio 10 live video stream die ik kon vinden was [Wayback/Archive] Radio 10 Webcam – Radio 10 Live beeld – MyOnlineRadio.
Zijn er meer?
De reden was dat ik Matijn ook weer eens live wilde zien na zijn vertrek bij Radio 2 (alleen luisteren is soms ook wat saai).
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Bell’s Theorem: The Quantum Venn Diagram Paradox – YouTube and Twitter explained with polarised filters
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/12/24
These are cool explanations of Bell’s Theorem:
- [Wayback/Archive] Bell’s Theorem: The Quantum Venn Diagram Paradox – YouTube
- [Wayback/Archive] Santiago Ortiz on Twitter: “I use polarised filters to explain (some) quantum mechanics to my kids. How is it possible that adding a 3rd filter in between (the one at 45º) some light get to go through the otherwise black rectangle in the middle?”
- [Wayback/Archive] Santiago Ortiz on Twitter: “@chevreuil wave function updates when photon goes through filter B (45º), and “erases” the information of previous initial collapse (filter A 0º), so it has now 50% chance of going through filter C (90º) even if previously it already went through A (0º)… crazy”
- [Wayback/Archive] Sartanas on Twitter: “@moebio @chevreuil Wow I didn’t knew the wave function could “uncollapse”. So that means the photon can reset their polarization? Why doesn’t that happen after each filter though?”
- [Wayback/Archive] Santiago Ortiz on Twitter: “@Sartanas @chevreuil It resets when it collapses. But language is tricky, in reality it never has a polarity, but a superposition of polarities… until it collapses and creates certainty in one dimension and superposition in the independent dimension.”
- [Wayback/Archive] AlliesBeautifyingNonstopHolisticGender on Twitter: “@moebio @Sartanas @chevreuil so does order matter? 0°+90°+45° ≠ 0° +45°+90°? reset implies t has changed but the superposition is just uncancelling them out .. the intuition always feels lacking for this example. show me to polar math of them canceling out i guess.idk”
- [Wayback/Archive] flowdor on Twitter: “@AllieMarbar @moebio @Sartanas @chevreuil Apparently:”
- [Wayback/Archive] farintothestars on Twitter: “@flowdor @AllieMarbar @moebio @Sartanas @chevreuil can someone explain this to me like im stupid & in a field not remotely close to STEM 💀”
- [Wayback/Archive] Linda Cardellini Updates 💃 on Twitter: “@farintothestars @flowdor @AllieMarbar @moebio @Sartanas @chevreuil Photons do not have memory.”
- [Wayback/Archive] saua on Twitter: “@farintothestars @flowdor @AllieMarbar @moebio @Sartanas @chevreuil Even WITH that background, the explanation is very un-intuitive. Unfortunately I don’t know any better explanations than this video (which isn’t ideal without any STEM background):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcqZHYo7ONs“
- [Wayback/Archive] farintothestars on Twitter: “@flowdor @AllieMarbar @moebio @Sartanas @chevreuil can someone explain this to me like im stupid & in a field not remotely close to STEM 💀”
- [Wayback/Archive] flowdor on Twitter: “@AllieMarbar @moebio @Sartanas @chevreuil Apparently:”
- [Wayback/Archive] AlliesBeautifyingNonstopHolisticGender on Twitter: “@moebio @Sartanas @chevreuil so does order matter? 0°+90°+45° ≠ 0° +45°+90°? reset implies t has changed but the superposition is just uncancelling them out .. the intuition always feels lacking for this example. show me to polar math of them canceling out i guess.idk”
- [Wayback/Archive] Santiago Ortiz on Twitter: “@Sartanas @chevreuil It resets when it collapses. But language is tricky, in reality it never has a polarity, but a superposition of polarities… until it collapses and creates certainty in one dimension and superposition in the independent dimension.”
- [Wayback/Archive] Bonnie Lawrence on Twitter: “@moebio @chevreuil Cool! Why 50%?”
- [Wayback/Archive] Santiago Ortiz on Twitter: “@BonnieMLawrence @chevreuil because a photon that passed the 45º test, is completely free to decide whether it goes through 90º, because 45º doesn’t say anything (is independent) from 90º. You can’t have information about two independent axis, that’s the Uncertainty Principle for you!”
- [Wayback/Archive] elbalalaw on Twitter: “@moebio @chevreuil I have two questions : How can going through a filter erase the information of the wave function ? Also isn’t drakness the absence of light ? If the combination of filters A and B produces darkness shouldn’t that mean that ther are no light waves passing through ?”
- [Wayback/Archive] michael on Twitter: “@elbalalaw @moebio @chevreuil Yes, light can not go through filter A and then B. However, if you put filter C in between them, some light gets through! Classically you would think that adding more filters should make it darker, but polarization/quantum mechanics is weird”
- [Wayback/Archive] 𒇷 𒁯𒅗 🇺🇦 on Twitter: “@moebio @chevreuil The only way I can think of it without going insane is the photon leaves its source and arrives at its destination at the same time (e.g. no time). Every probability event along its path is realized. With enough photons, you have a very accurate measure of central tendency.”
- [Wayback/Archive] (3waves+Δ+Ο+Ο.2+Deltomicron+BA.2/4/5) Survivor on Twitter: “@Lee__Drake @moebio @chevreuil Exactly. A ‘photon’ is the instantaneous change in time-value, which we perceive as ‘journey-through-space’. There is only time. And it ticks asymmetrically, creating the universe entities, because its ‘nanoseconds’ are prime numbers.”
- [Wayback/Archive] Sartanas on Twitter: “@moebio @chevreuil Wow I didn’t knew the wave function could “uncollapse”. So that means the photon can reset their polarization? Why doesn’t that happen after each filter though?”
- [Wayback/Archive] Santiago Ortiz on Twitter: “@chevreuil wave function updates when photon goes through filter B (45º), and “erases” the information of previous initial collapse (filter A 0º), so it has now 50% chance of going through filter C (90º) even if previously it already went through A (0º)… crazy”
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–jeroen
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Some thoughts and experience by isotopp on solar panels and batteries
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/12/23
For my link archive the thread leading up to [Wayback/Archive] Kris on Twitter: “@mterwoord @mausdompteur Das ist ein 15 kWh LFP-Klotz, der Problemlos ins Kabuff neben den Inverter passt und nicht im Weg ist. Nachdem ich nun noch einmal 21% BTW von den 10100 Euro Solarpanels zurück bekommen habe wäre das Ding also praktisch unter 5000 Euro zu haben. Ein No-Brainer quasi.”
–jeroen
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redox – Acetic(vinegar) and citric acid as the rust remover – Chemistry Stack Exchange
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/12/20
There are alternatives. One trick is to get the chloride, sulfate, or nitrate into solution by using a compound other than the acid. For instance, adding sodium chloride to a solution of citric acid should make the citric acid more aggressive, and yet, won’t change the pH. (One reason for this is that FeCl3FeCl3 is more soluble than the iron citrate.)
[Wayback/Archive] redox – Acetic(vinegar) and citric acid as the rust remover – Chemistry Stack Exchange
--jeroen
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Kleding voor nerds en geeks / Clothing for nerds & geeks — getDigital
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/12/16
This site will redirect you to your localised version (which means the archived links are titled “Clothing for nerds & geeks — getDigital”) [Wayback/Archive] Kleding voor nerds en geeks — getDigital.
It is originally German (see below links) and the T-shirt quality is quite OK.
- [Wayback/Archive] Contact — getDigital «Ons telefoonnummer: +49 (0) 431 590 7845»
- [Wayback/Archive] Privacy policy — getDigital «The person responsible has appointed a data protection officer, who can be reached as follows: “Lawyer Dr. Sebastian Kraska, Marienplatz 2, 80331 Munich”»
- [Wayback/Archive] Terms of service — getDigital «These General Terms and Conditions (hereinafter “GTC”) of Stern & Schatz GmbH (hereinafter “Seller”)»
- [Wayback/Archive] Legal notice — getDigital «Stern & Schatz GmbH, Barkauer Str. 121, 24145 Kiel, Germany»
--jeroen
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A Dutch friend got a 2nd hand Lenovo with a keyboard layout I didn’t know: searching for the special keys did not return results
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/12/09
TL;DR: it was a Dutch keyboard, which almost nobody in The Netherlands uses (US or US-International are the most used physical keyboard layouts over there)
I tried searching for keyboard layouts using Google with these special keys that were present on the keyboard (listing all keys that either have special symbols on them, or use the Alg-Gr modifier):
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 