Posted by jpluimers on 2020/11/30
Two Android apps I tried that work quite OK for measuring dBA or Sound Pressure Level:
Measuring sound levels is not easy, especially the calibration is important. That’s why professional devices are relatively expensive.
These are no full replacements for those professional devices, but the first comes close enough for me.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/11/27
Need to figure out how to install: “twitter lite” “not available in your country” – Google Search.
Failing steps from [WayBack] Twitter vs Twitter Lite: Is Lite App Worth it?, but it might actually be the app sans APK.
On my reading list:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/11/23
The G+ exodus caused some people to create some great information on available online messaging and social-networking / social-media / social-graph based technologies: [WayBack] Protocols and Networks – PlexodusWiki.
Via [WayBack] Protocols and Networks +Mr. McNoname compiled and formatted an excellent rundown of open & federated social networking protocols. This is the kind of… – Edward Morbius – Google+
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/11/23
[WayBack] Griffon | Product: Griffon Zacht Lijm PVC M-385 250ml
For repairing PVC: Griffon M-385 – Google Search
Alternative: 5410091262549 – Google Search ([WayBack] Contactlijm Transparant – Pattex)
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/11/20
De belastingdienst noemt de bewindvoering van een natuurlijk persoon op een natuurlijk persoon beschermingsbewind.
Dat was initieel een beetje verwarrend (omdat je de uitleg van die term nergens op de site van de belastingdienst kunt terugvinden), maar daardoor werd wel duidelijk wat het juiste formulier is om in te sturen:
[Wayback] www.belastingdienst.nl/wps/wcm/connect/bldcontentnl/themaoverstijgend/programmas_en_formulieren/aanmelden_wijzigen_of_beeindigen_beschermingsbewind
Insturen kon per e-mail: reuze handig!
Meer info:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/11/20
[WayBack] Webcare Amsterdam on Twitter : “Hee Jeroen, jammer dat de auto nu al weg is. Mocht je in het weekend weer een melding willen doen dan kan dat via 14020 of via meldingen.amsterdam.nl. Fijne feestdagen toegewenst! ^TR…”
Buiten kantoortijden melden van foutparkeerders:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/11/16
Found the cause of Pokemon stops not turning purple via [WayBack] Has anyone else had issues with lures/incense not attracting pokemon? : pokemongo: phone was set on manual time (which was correct), and had time zone wrong for the current GPS location.
Now Pokeomon go gets confused, so does not want to guess the state of the Pokestop.
Via: [WayBack] Lures not spawning anything. Pokestops won’t turn purple. [BUG] : pokemongo
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/11/13
A while ago at [WayBack] The only bad thing about getting Google Fi is giving up Google Voice — Mike Elgan wrote
You can use Google Voice or you can use Google Fi, but you can’t use both. I just bought a Google Pixel 3 in order to move off AT&T and onto Google Fi fulltime. (We used to use Google Fi using my wife’s account, but only as a WiFi hotspot while traveling abroad.) It’s kind of a bummer, b
But the first comment has a solution that works, if you use two Google accounts that is:
I have Fi and use Google Voice on the same phone. I have to sign in to Voice with a separate Google account so there are some compromises but it works for how I use it.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/11/12
The combination of being partially word blind and having learned English initially from my urge to understand computing books during my (Dutch) secondary education in the mid 1980s, I often have a gap between understanding “daily life” or “real life” English words, especially when they also have a meaning in the computing world.
So it took me a while to get the non-computing meaning of shim.
In computing, shim is used as word for tiny shell that separates two layers, which means my original association was with “sphere”.
Had I associated with an adapter or something that puts space between to layers, it would have been much easier to understand the “real life” meaning of a spacer shim.
Similarly, I had trouble understanding washer (which I associated with washing, and is right: it often means washing machine, but can also mean dish washer, which is an odd word for me as it washes much more than dishes). It took me much longer to get there is an additional meaning for a mechanical construction washer, which is a thin disc (so not a tube-like ring) often used as spacers, so in a sense similar to a shim.
In Dutch, I have the same problem with “wasmachine” (English washing machine) and “afwasmachine” (Dish washer).
To add to the confusion, hardware washers in Dutch are called rings.
–jeroen
All of the above links are from Wikipedia.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/11/11
Excel date times are almost identical to OLE/COM automation date times (that used in many Windows applications).
Which means that dates are 1 unit apart, and:
That way you can easily add one hour to a date/time value by adding 1/24.
Source: How to quickly add hours/minutes/second to date and time in Excel?
Related:
–jeroen
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