Fron a while ago but still relevant [Wayback/Archive] Is it Pokémon or Big Data?.
It is a cool experiment to test your own knowledge or for fun to assess recruiters or candidates (;
And it is open source too:
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Is it Pokémon or Big Data?
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/12/03
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Reddit – PSA: Fast way to complete the “Use 10 super effective charged attacks” field research : TheSilphRoad
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/11/29
[Wayback/Archive] PSA: Fast way to complete the “Use 10 super effective charged attacks” field research : TheSilphRoad
TL;DR: Use a 1500 CP Poliwrath with Mud Shot and Power-Up Punch against Blanche in Great League, and don’t swipe any bubbles. Quest is done in 1 battle or 3 minutes.
This has been posted before when people were working on the 200 super effective charged moves for the level 43 quest, and I personally learned the trick from that post. But now that we have regular field research quests that reward Mega Energy for 10 SE charged moves, I figured it might be worth a repost.
What you need
A Poliwrath under 1500 CP, with fast move Mud Shot and charged move Power-Up Punch.
What you do
- Do a training battle with Blanche in Great League. This can be found at the bottom of the “Battle” tab.
- Use Poliwrath in the lead, followed by two random 1500 CP Pokemon. (Blanche always uses Sneasel, Sealeo and Snowy Castform.)
- In the battle, use a Power-Up Punch whenever it’s charged up.
- Do not swipe any bubbles during the charged move animation, until you already reached ~10 charged moves. This will ensure you do minimal damage (25% of the move’s actual power).
- Once you count to 9 or 10 charged moves, you can then swipe all bubbles to do full damage.
Without any bubbles, it typically takes 3-4 PuPs to kill Sneasel, 4-5 for Sealeo, and 4-5 for Castform. So I typically don’t swipe any bubbles against Sneasel and Sealeo, then swipe all or most bubbles against Castform (would take 2-3 PuPs to kill it). This works even if you’re not consciously keeping track of how many charged moves you’ve used.
Many alternatives are available, such as Medicham with Psycho Cut/Power-Up Punch against GL Blanche, Politoed with Mud Shot/Weather Ball against GL Candela, or a Mud Shot/Mud Bomb user (Whiscash, Marshtomp) against GL Candela.
(If someone wants to make a video of this, go ahead.)
Related:
- [Wayback/Archive] Tip to get 200 super effective charged attacks (level 43 requirement) in less than an hour : TheSilphRoad
- [Wayback/Archive] Reddit – Help with “super effective” charged attacks? : TheSilphRoad
Choose battle menu option and fight blanche using Magnezone, Skeledirge, Jolteon. If used in that order against Blanches 3 Pokemon in her order, every charged attack will be of the super effective charged attack type. Magnezone and Jolteon can switch their order if preferred. I.e., Magnezone and Jolteon will tick off the super effective attack count against Blanches first and last Pokemon. Enjoy!
--jeroen
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Eric Reinhart on Twitter: “Yes, there is no intrinsic meaning or purpose in your life. This is difficult; it’s also the reason there’s possibility for you. The task of living is to invent meaning and purpose, and then invent it again. It’s work. Much of the time it’s painful. Sometimes, it’s also joy. 3/”/ Twitter
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/11/28
Food for thought: [Wayback/Archive] Eric Reinhart on Twitter: “Yes, there is no intrinsic meaning or purpose in your life. This is difficult; it’s also the reason there’s possibility for you. The task of living is to invent meaning and purpose, and then invent it again. It’s work. Much of the time it’s painful. Sometimes, it’s also joy. 3/”
The full thread is at [Wayback/Archive] Thread by @_Eric_Reinhart on Thread Reader App.
–jeroen
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Hopefully this has made it into a set by now: LEGO IDEAS – This Is Fine
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/11/25
Often it can take a long time for first getting 100 votes, then via milestones 1000, 5000, 10000 and a long review phase to become an actual set.
Hopefully by now [Wayback/Archive] LEGO IDEAS – This Is Fine has become a set or at least someone used Bricklink Studio designer and uploaded the model or instructions.
Edit 20241125:
Nope, LEGO decided they didn’t want to make money of this set as communicated in their [Wayback/Archive] LEGO IDEAS – This Is Fine: Official LEGO Comments
Unfortunately, the LEGO Review Board has decided that we will not produce this project as a set.
But others did:
- [Wayback/Archive] MOC This is Fine Dog Building Block Kit Anime Cartoon Fire Meme Vignette Hound Dog Animal Brick Model Toy For Children Gifts – AliExpress 26
- [Wayback/Archive] This is Fine Dog Building Blocks, Funny Internet Nederland | Ubuy
Looking at the price difference between these two, LEGO could have made quite a bit of money.
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GHP1989 to WHY2025: Dutch hacker camps from the past and the future – YouTube
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/11/22
A long, since 1989, tradition is the Quadrennial Dutch hacker convention.
A nice video summarising all of them is at [Wayback/Archive] GHP1989 to WHY2025: Dutch hacker camps from the past and the future – YouTube
The upcoming [Wayback/Archive] WHY2025 hacker camp convention is covered starting at 44:42.
--jeroen
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GitHub – ggerganov/whisper.cpp: Port of OpenAI’s Whisper model in C/C++
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/11/20
For future experimentation transcribing voice conversations: [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – ggerganov/whisper.cpp: Port of OpenAI’s Whisper model in C/C++
Whisper (speech recognition system) usually runs in the cloud (someone else’s computers, often rentable for a substantial monthly sum).
Via
- [Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers: “Wat is een goede tool voor transcriptie van Nederlandse tekst voor hobbymatig gebruik?…” – Mastodon
- [Wayback/Archive] bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺: “@wiert whisper.cpp als je handig bent…” – Fosstodon
Now hopefully Whisper works well with the Dutch language…
I later realised Jeff Geerling mentioned Whisper a while ago as well:
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Un4seen.Bass Namespace – BASS.NET API for the Un4seen BASS Audio Library
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/11/19
A while ago, within a week time, I got reminded of a project I did some 15 years ago involving low-latency audio using the .NET platform on Windows XP Embedded.
For that I used the BASS.NET wrapper classes and P/Invoke methods around the Un4seen BASS Audio Library.
Back in those days there was not much documentation about this, but now there is more.
Some starting points are:
- [Wayback/Archive] BASS.NET API for the Un4seen BASS Audio Library – Table of Content
- [Wayback/Archive] BASS.NET Overview
- [Wayback/Archive] BASS.NET API
BASS.NET is a .Net wrapper for the BASS Audio Library and all it’s Add-Ons – available @ http://www.un4seen.com. The Bass.Net.dll release version is installed in the specified ‘install-directory’ and will be registered to the .NET Framework as a standard component (if you left all the installation options checked). Note, that there are various Bass.Net assemblies available (side-by-side): one targeting the .Net v4.8 Full Framework and one targeting the .Net v6.0 Core Framework.
The native BASS libraries (e.g. bass.dll) are NOT included and need to be downloaded seperately – so make sure to download the BASS library and the needed add-on libraries and place them to your project executable directory (e.g. place the bass.dll to .\bin\Debug).
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followed by an elaborate list of the Bass.net namespaces.
- [Wayback/Archive] Version History (back to the initial 2005 version; I used it from 2007-2009)
- [Wayback/Archive] Upgrading from Previous Versions
- [Wayback/Archive] Interoperating with Unmanaged Code was still in its infancy somewhere on the forums when I used the Bass.net library. Wish it had been in its current state, as it now is a set of wonderful guidelines.
- [Wayback/Archive] Un4seen Developments – Welcome
Via:
- [Wayback/Archive] Online samenspelen | rolfhoogenberg.eu
Maart 2021
Momenteel repeteer ik wekelijks met mijn muziekverenigingen realtime via internet. We kunnen echt samen muziek maken en dat is heerlijk!
Om succesvol samen te kunnen spelen via internet begruiken we 2 programma’s:
- Zoom – dit gebruiken we voor het beeld, de video.
- Jamulus – dit gebruiken we voor het geluid, de audio.
Op deze pagina vindt u een handleiding die ik schreef voor de installatie en het instellen van deze 2 programma’s.
Let op: Er is een aparte handleiding voor Windows en een aparte handleiding voor MacOS.
Verder kun je via deze pagina de installatieprogramma’s downloaden die nodig zijn om Jamulus en ASIO4ALL te installeren.
Dit is Open Source software die je ook kunt downloaden van www.jamulus.io en www.asio4all.org.
- [Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers @wiert@mastodon.social on X: “@lucasmeijer It’s been a long time ago, so just to check that we are talking about the same thing: I was using the BASS .NET wrappers around ASIO audio back then.”
Related:
- [Wayback/Archive] Jamulus ‒ Play music online. With friends. For free.
- [Wayback/Archive] Jamulus – Internet Jam Session Software download | SourceForge.net
- [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – jamulussoftware/jamulus: Jamulus enables musicians to perform real-time jam sessions over the internet.
- [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – grundic/jamulus-docker: Docker image for online jamming software Jamulus
- [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – jamulussoftware/jamuluswebsite: This is the GitHub Pages repository for the Jamulus main website. For the jamulus application source code, please visit jamulussoftware/jamulus.
- [Wayback/Archive] ASIO4ALL Official Home – Universal Windows ASIO Driver
- [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – dechamps/FlexASIO: A flexible universal ASIO driver that uses the PortAudio sound I/O library. Supports WASAPI (shared and exclusive), KS, DirectSound and MME.
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Among other things, this makes it possible to emulate a typical Windows application that opens an audio device in shared mode. This means other applications can use the same audio devices at the same time, with the Windows audio engine mixing the various audio streams. Other universal ASIO drivers do not offer this functionality as they always open audio devices in exclusive mode.
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- [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – L4ZZA/ASIO4ALL.NET: A simple C#/C++ Interop project upgraded to modern frameworks. Credits @robinvierich
--jeroen
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Opinie | Bosrandgeluk – NRC – ikje uit zomer 2010
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/11/15
Het blijft hartverscheurend: [Wayback/Archive] Opinie | Bosrandgeluk – NRC
Als we door een bos rijden, zegt ze opeens: „Als je straks ophoudt met werken, wil ik met jou in een huisje aan de bosrand wonen, met een tuin, een moestuintje en een weitje.”Ik brom instemmend.Na een poosje keren we terug.Zij (83) naar het verpleeghuis.Ik (89) naar het huisje aan de bosrand met een tuin, een moestuintje en een weitje, waar we ruim dertig jaar heel erg gelukkig waren.W. van der Heijden
--jeroen
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Reminder to self: get the Technic 40 year anniversary model and also rebuild the 8860 on which it was based (via Brickset: LEGO set guide and database)
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/11/14
Some 7 years ago, I missed the [Wayback/Archive] Technic 40 year anniversary model | Brickset: LEGO set guide and database.
Hopefully by now I have had time to get the various underlying boxes and build it, together with reviving the 8860 I still have from my child-hood time.
Pictures from Brickset:
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Kris on chaos.social about doing the math on heap pumps combined with solar power and home batteries
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/11/11
Copied in full as the Wayback Machine archival of toots are broken: [Wayback/Archive] Kris (@isotopp): “Im Juli werden wir nicht mehr …” – chaos.social
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 