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What Are Dreams For? | The New Yorker

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/14

Interesting: [Wayback/Archive] What Are Dreams For? | The New Yorker

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In a series of papers, Blumberg articulated his theory that the brain uses REM sleep to “learn” the body.

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Are the robots really dreaming?

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Via:

--jeroen

https://x.com/jmechner/status/1967129596903711139

https://x.com/NewYorker/status/1966950083024334849

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Resetting the iDrive on a BMW E61 and E61 LCI

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/08

I drive an E61 and a friend an E61 LCI, so:

Oh, the channel also has this very useful video: [Wayback/Archive] BMW E60/E61 tips: how to manually shift the gear selector to Neutral (completely dead💀 car) – YouTube

--jeroen

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World Health Organisation – “Quick reference guide: responsible reporting on suicide”

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/05

With World Suicide Prevention Day coming up in less than a week, this is a reminder on how to report on this. Not just important to the media at large, but everyone on social media too.

When you are in The Netherlands:

  • Is your life in immediate danger? Call 112 immediately.
  • If your life is not in immediate danger but you could still use help, call 113 (standard rate) or 0800-0113 (free of charge) or start an online chat.

When you are outside The Netherlands, find help via these links:

Please read the 1 page large font and visually clear [Wayback/Archive] responsible-reporting-on-suicide.pdf.

The [Wayback/Archive] World Suicide Prevention Day 2024 started with the 2024-2026 triennial theme “Changing the Narrative on Suicide”, so please please please read the above PDF.

If you cannot view PDF on your computer, you can read it through the picture below, or an on-line PDF viewer in your web-browser through these links:

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Mystery boxen – Retourtjes.com

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/01

Interesting: [Wayback/Archive] Mystery boxen – Retourtjes.com

Via [WaybackSave/Archive] Lia🌈❤ on X: “Kocht voor weinig een pakket ongeclaimde pakketjes… kon net door de deur🤣 merendeel is niet interessant voor mij (gereedschap, opladers, cartridges) maar ook leuke zooi (waterkan, stickers, knutselspul). Er zitten ook mystery items in, oftewel “ik heb geen idee wat het is”.” / X

Related:

--jeroen

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Veel gebruikte afkortingen in de oogzorg

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/08/29

Had ik nodig om de brief van de oogarts te kunnen ontcijferen (:

[Wayback/Archive] www.optometrie.nl/serverspecific/default/images/File/Richtlijnen/Afkortingenoogzorg131104.pdf

Queries:

--jeroen

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Segoe Fluent Icons font – Windows apps | Microsoft Learn

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/08/28

For modern scaleable UI applications, it helps a lot when one has a consistently designed scalable icon set with icons having the same dimensions and features.

In more than just one sense, designing and developing such sets is a lot like developing and designing scaleable fonts. It is not surprising that by now many of these are available as fonts.

Ons of them is [Wayback/Archive] Segoe Fluent Icons font – Windows apps | Microsoft Learn which on the page has the complete list: an impressive one indeed and as such a leap from the old dingbat fonts like Zapf Dingbats fonts (yes, I am more than ITC Zapf Dingbats old; most glyphs ended up in the Dingbats (Unicode block) in 1991), Wingdings from Microsoft Windows 3.1 on, Wingdings 2 and Wingdings 3 in Microsoft Office versions until Office 2010, and the – now part of Core fonts for the web – Webdings as of Internet Explore 4.

Those old fonts only had small sets of icons – usually no more than 230, some just dozens – and Segoe Fluent Icons has a huge set of icons.

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Inside a cheap set of eBay digital calipers – YouTube

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/08/22

The innards of these devices and how those work are so cool: [Wayback/Archive] Inside a cheap set of eBay digital calipers – YouTube

It should be noted that the quiescent current of these devices is around 18uA, even when off (the display goes off until movement is detected).
Some users are reporting a very short battery life, but a typical 100mAh (0.1Ah) button cell should be able to supply 0.00002A for a very long time. (Theoretically 100’s of days.)

The linear capacitive encoder in these units is very impressive. The physical encoder is seemingly very simple, with the bulk of the work being done by the ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit). It’s very similar in its cost optimisation to the cheap, but super-accurate weighing scales.

I’m really impressed by the accuracy of these units for their price. They are very common on eBay for as little as £5 (about $7 USD).

Via [Wayback/Archive] Discord | #3d-print-cnc-kleien-figuurzagen | Angrynerds Podcast

--jeroen

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Turn iPhone, iPad and Android into wireless mobile mouse / trackpad / keyboard with Remote Mouse.

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/08/08

On my list of things to try: [Wayback/Archive] Turn iPhone, iPad and Android into wireless mobile mouse / trackpad / keyboard with Remote Mouse.

Goal is to see if the iPad can function as a larger touchpad to assist drawing on my MacBook.

Links:

Via:

Query: [Wayback/Archive] use ipad as mouse – Google Suche

--jeroen

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peter purgathofer: “… i recently found a little HDMI-fob that fakes a second screen; i can now see my presenters’ notes on the built-in screen, while the presentation is on a hallucinated second screen …” – 🌱 hci.social

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/08/06

The below post reminded me that around black friday I bought [Wayback/Archive] ADWITS 2-Pack 4K 2K 1080P 30Hz to 60Hz Support HDMI Display Emulator DDC EDID Headless Ghost Monitor Adapter Dummy Plug, Highest 4096 x 2160 @ 60Hz – Gold Colour: Amazon.de: PC & Video Games

[Wayback/Archive] peter purgathofer: “today i gave a talk, where the…” – 🌱 hci.social

today i gave a talk, where the setup was that i had to share my presentation over zoom, but i didn’t have a second screen. this usually meant that i have to forgo seeing my presenters’ notes because my notebook’s screen would be the shared presentation screen.

i recently found a little HDMI-fob that fakes a second screen; i can now see my presenters’ notes on the built-in screen, while the presentation is on a hallucinated second screen.

simple and effective.

--jeroen

Image from the Toot: [Wayback/Archive] 6af960c3f84a12e8.jpeg (2939×2821)

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BMW E61 rear light water fix damage – YouTube

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/08/04

One of my BMW E61 rear light fixtures leaked: [Wayback/Archive] BMW E61 rear light water fix damage – YouTube

[Wayback/Archive] Tail Light Leak…? | BMW M5 Forum and M6 Forums

Personally I’d start with new gaskets.

In my case, it was the light fixture itself leaking, not the gaskets, so either the work in the video is needed, or a second hand tail light.

Queries:

--jeroen

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