Posted by jpluimers on 2016/07/01
I checked our home using the recently improved Google satellite imagery: from Google Earth you can get better detail than from Google Maps.
You can even count our solar panels and see one is misaligned after a storm (a few days after this image was taken I managed to re-align that panel).
13 PV panels and one hot water panel lowered our energy bills for more than EUR 1000/year.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/06/29
This is a small discussion of about 1 year old on G+ An interesting power/tech thing….
It serves as a reminder to myself: how far is the gigafactory and when will battery prices really drop.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/06/24
Add your Hidden Summer Hotspot in Amsterdam and share with other Local Guides. Where to find that small theatre, that cosy restaurant or that hidden museum in remote streets? Created live during the Amsterdam Hotspot Party by Local Guides in the city.
Source: Local Guides Hidden Hotspots Amsterdam
Short: http://g.co/hiddenAmsterdam
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/06/24
From old stock, I still had a few of these machines and gave them away maxed out at 8 GB with a Windows x64 installation and SSD.
You need 4 of these: 2GB DDR2 PC2-5300 @ 667Mhz non-ECC non-registered memory DIMM. Faster DIMMs work too. Registered DIMMs don’t work.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/06/17
Good visualisations make math so much easier to grasp, so I completely agree with Thomas Mueller (dummzeuch) who wrote “Why didn’t my Maths teachers use this kind of graphic? Why wasn’t it in the expensive book?”
Via #Maths #fun – I’m Programmer – Google+
Actual source: Binomial theorem: Geometric explanation – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia picture File:Binomial expansion visualisation.svg – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (red/purple/blue) and File:Binomial theorem visualisation.svg – Wikimedia Commons (red/orange/green/blue)
I like the last picture best (I wonder though what colour blind people think about them).
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/06/01
Reminder to self: see if lego set 42056 has been released yet:
The Danish brickmaker’s new Technic 911 GT3 RS set is beautiful, desirable and slightly scary — not unlike the actual car.
Source:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/04/22
“We’re barbarians, not bureaucrats!”
Source: Hacking is Important — Medium
On hacking vs processes, being disruptive and how people think. Short stories about Borland, Apple, FaceBook and others.
–jeroen
via: Hacking is Important — Medium – David Berneda – Google+
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/04/04
Her uncle had parkinson. This simple yet innovative solution helped him big time:
she questioned how her uncle walked up and down the stairs. Surprisingly, he was able to do this without any problem, but as soon as he stopped, he had trouble walking again. She decided to apply a “staircase illusion” to the floor by having the illusion of a staircase flowing throughout her uncle’s house. To her surprise, this simple solution was able to help her uncle move around the house faster and easier.
Source: TEDxDelft 2015 | Mileha Soneji | Empathy is the Key to Great Innovation – TEDxDelft
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/03/25
Sugru is mouldable glue that turns into rubber. We invented it to make fixing and making easy and fun. Do-ers of the world, it’s time to get excited.
Source: FIX THAT THING | Sugru
via: Playing NSA, hardware hackers build USB cable that can attack | Ars Technica
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/03/24
Fun: The latest innovation from the media | CommitStrip: block visitors that use adblockers.
The real fun: the first comments G+ re-share “The end of the ad-blocking wars (and some media)” are from people that exactly do what’s in the third frame: bye bye adblock-blocker site.
For good reason too: viewing ads has become a clear and present danger to our security and privacy.
I won’t even bother trying ad-blocker-blocker-blockers.
@WIRED and @parool are out for reasons 1 and 3.
–jeroen
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