Posted by jpluimers on 2022/01/31
Some time into the waiting for a new ABS/DSC computer to arrive for my E46, I heard beeping while driving slowly (it would start when standing still and disappear when driving around 20 km/h).
This was odd, as I didn’t touch anything besides the steering wheel or the gas and break pedals.
Nothing in the instrument cluster changed either, so that put me in the wrong direction.
When the ABS/DSC computer is broken, the cluster looks like this:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/01/31
Decades I thought it was easy:
| English | Dutch | German | Period |
|---|---|---|---|
| Morning | Morgen/Ochtend | Morgen | 06:00-12:00 |
| Afternoon | Middag | Mittag | 12:00-18:00 |
| Evening | Avond | Abend | 18:00-00:00 |
| Night | Nacht | Nacht | 00:00-06:00 |
Well, at least in Germany they add more periods during the day (give or take a few hours):
| German | Period |
|---|---|
| Morgen | 05:00-10:00 |
| Vormittag | 10:00-12:00 |
| Mittag | 12:00-14:00 |
| Nachmittag | 14:00-18:00 |
| Abend | 18:00-23:00 |
| Nacht | 23:00-05:00 |
And in English, the starting and ending times are way more flexible than in the tables above:
| English | Period |
|---|---|
| Morning | sunrise-noon |
| Afternoon | noon-sunset |
| Evening | sunset-twilight-end |
| Night | sunset-sunrise |
Via:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/01/28
Dutch source:
[Archive.is] Jason 🚀 on Twitter: “Deze tijd is zwaar, dus even een reminder dat je brein voor veel intelligentie zorgt, maar tegelijkertijd eigenlijk heel dom is. Dus als je een slechte dag hebt: draai een te vrolijk nummer, ga springen of dansen en forceer een schaterlach. Je brein is daar niet tegen bestand.”
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/01/28
Voor de administratie van mijn broer en wijlen moeder maakte ik gebruik van grootboeknummers.
Hoewel je dat normaal alleen voor bedrijven doet, functioneerde dit wonderbaarlijk wel.
Hier wat linkjes die ik gebruikt heb om de juiste grootboeknummers te kiezen:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/01/28
De meesten hebben een veel sterkere invloed van de criticus in hun hoofd dan de lieverd. Geef de laatste ook eens aandacht, bijvoorbeeld door vaker te lachen.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/01/26
I’ve been agile all my (not just programming) life, and only figured out this century that there is a vocabulary for that, containing the words agile, extreme programming, feature-driven and many more.
Now with the passing of the years, I also realise I have been trying to do “slow and smooth” all my life, and that with age (and less adrenaline) this becomes easier and easier.
I think “slow and smooth” goes well with “agile”, specially when you keep the focus on “doing things right” (and trying to do them right the first time, and keeping it right in incremental steps).
It often reminds me of the Dutch phrase “heeft u haast, gaat dan zitten” which often is attributed to be part of the many Chinese proverbs. It roughly translates to “when in a hurry, take a seat”, and suggests to take a step back and think when under pressure. Maybe this English version of a Chinese proverb comes close: “When you are in a hurry, the horse holds back”.
For is it is intriguing that mainly Chinese, but in a broader sense Asian, proverbs play such an important role, whereas Western proverbs get less and less important. Informal knowledge seems to diminish in Western culture, which I think is a pity.
Maybe all these vocabulary things that started to make sense way after my puberty also have to do with being diagnosed autistic at 50. That too started a lot of puzzle-pieces to suddenly make sense.
Below the links that inspired me to make this blog post in the first place:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/01/25
Good Abstracts: A Template
Fabrizio Gilardi*
February 24, 2021
Abstract
Everyone agrees that this issue is really important. But we do not know much about
this specific question, although it matters a great deal, for these reasons. We approach the
problem from this perspective. Our research design focuses on these cases and relies on
these data, which we analyze using this method. Results show what we have learned about
the question. They have these broader implications.
*Department of Political Science, University of Zurich (https://fabriziogilardi.org/).
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Source: [Wayback] fabriziogilardi.org/resources/papers/good-abstracts.pdf
Via:
Good Abstracts: A Template
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/01/24
For my link archive:
Problem was that the privacy statement was not on a separate page during DigiD logon: you had to copy/paste to word in order to save it.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/01/21
From a while back, in response to Brexit people wanting to have a second home in France but refusing to speak French at all, but basically demanding a second UK in France.
[Wayback] Thread by @jpluimers on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App / [Archive.is] Jeroen Pluimers on Twitter: “Note that I find French a beautiful, but tough to learn language. This has to do both with dyslexia and autism. I still try. Which leads to odd and humorous situations. 1/… “:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/01/17
Sebastian Bergmann documented his Twitch streaming setup using digital output from his Amiga 1200 retrocomputing machine: [Wayback] Streaming Setup, Iterated
This might hold for other retro-hardware too, so here is the schema he uses:
–jeroen
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 