Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/15
I wonder, 40 years later, what happened after the USSR dismantled: especially with the developments over the last 10 years and the culmination in the last 2, are these bands – banned in January 1985 – still banned in Russia? [Wayback/Archive] They were banned in the USSR – The Scotsman
The above article was published in 2014, and a full translated list in the 2015 article [Wayback/Archive] The Soviet Union Creates a List of 38 Dangerous Rock Bands: Kiss, Pink Floyd, Talking Heads, Village People & More (1985) | Open Culture.
A picture of the original list in Russian was published in the 2017 article [Wayback/Archive] A list of 38 “dangerous” Western bands banned in the USSR
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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 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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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
#WhyCantWeHaveNiceThings
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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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).
Gerelateerd:
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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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