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Be sure to leave a review for The Pocket Guide to Debugging by Julia Evans | Goodreads

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/02/21

Julia makes great books, so be sure to leave a review at [Wayback/Archive] The Pocket Guide to Debugging by Julia Evans | Goodreads

Via [Wayback/Archive] 🔎Julia Evans🔍 on Twitter: “if you read “The Pocket Guide to Debugging — I’d love it if you left a review on Goodreads! It helps a lot.”

–jeroen

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Ask Delphi

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/02/21

LOL, Ionica taught me about a [Wayback/Archive] Ask Delphi “oracle”.

So I could not resist:

Ask Delphi:
Is Delphi a programming language?
Delphi speculates:
“It’s expected”

Don’t take the ethics of this “oracle” too seriously, as it is based on AI and we all know how that depends on the data it has been trained with.

Via:

jeroen

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Linkjes over wat allemaal te regelen als je laatste ouder is overleden

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/02/20

Linkjes van met name Belastingdienst en Overheid.

Eerst een paar notities:

  1. pluis het laatste jaar aan afschriften van je ouder af
  2. zeg alles van die afschriften af wat niet meer nodig is
  3. vaak kan uit coulance (zeker als je ouder in het 1e kwartaal is overleden) het hele jaar ongedaan worden gemaakt (bijvoorbeeld lidmaatschap van zorginstelling, kerk, personeelsvereniging, etc)
  4. controleer mogelijke huurcontracten: wat krijg je terug, klopt de ingangsdatum van de verhuurder met wat er op het contract staat
  5. controleer verzekeringen: is er een koophuis met een opstalverzekering, en kan die doorlopen op de “erven van” of niet?
  6. hou rekening dat voor verklaring van erfrecht de gemeente van de laatste woonplaats van je ouder onderzoek doet in basisregistratie personen, en dat dit ruim meer dan een maand kan duren

Dan een paar linkjes:

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Reminder to check if Dutch teletext now has RSS or is cached outside nos.nl – (via @Schellevis)

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/02/18

Reminder to self to check out the results of these two tweets:

A few related links, most via [Wayback/Archive] nos teletext rss – Google Search:

The teletext/teletekst feeds are also not on these URLs:

The feeds site seems to be based on Feedburner which is a product that Google seems to be gradually winding down.

Oh: if you have DVB-C or DVB-T, you can filter out the teletext signal and host it. VLC can do the filtering towards a visual teletext representation:

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Opvragen informatie testamenten en notarissen voor erfbelasting

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/02/17

Dit had ik enige tijd geleden nodig:

Gebruikte queries:

Achteraf had ik het registratienummer van de testamenten niet nodig omdat die reeds bij de Belastingdienst aanwezig waren.

–jeroen

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Minimumloon 2020

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/02/17

Forgot to publish this; hopefully links for more recent years follow the scheme below.

For my link archive:

–jeroen

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Minibiebs rond Amsterdam de Aker

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/02/16

Dit zijn locaties van minibiebs (of buurtbiebs) in of rond Amsterdam de Aker.

Een [Archive] kaartje staat rechts. Je kunt het ook bekijken via bit.ly/minibieb1060 (postcode 1060 omvat het meeste van de Aker, en iets daarbuiten, zie [Wayback/Archive] Postcode 1060 in Amsterdam – Postcode bij adres en [Wayback/Archive] Postcode 1060 Amsterdam – Postcodeadresboek.nl).

Via:

(als het goed is staan ze op minimaal 1 van beide kaarten)

Oh ja: heel veel weetjes over [Wayback/Archive] Postcode 1060: adressen, inwoners, woningen en meer! (update 2021!) | AlleCijfers.nl

jeroen

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State machines in Delphi and .NET

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/02/15

Forgot to schedule this in 2014, so here it finally is, as the content is still relevant:

A long time ago (almost 10 years) I did some stuff with State Machines in .NET.

Since then the world has changed, and a lot more libraries have become available.

As I mainly use .NET and Delphi and there is a reasonable chance I need to do some more state machine work, here are some links about State Machines in both environments.

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PoE Secret Strengths – Danny Thorpe

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/02/15

Passed away, this makes still every good reading: [Wayback/Archive] PoE Secret Strengths – Danny Thorpe.

I wish both Danny and his site were still alive.

Power over Ethernet (PoE) is a standard (802.3af) for powering devices using voltage carried on “spare” wires in the Ethernet cable.  For devices that support being powered by PoE, it means you only need one cable to the device to connect it to network and provide power.  Only one cable to snake through walls and attics, and the device can be placed without regard to access to a power outlet.

PoE is rightfully marketed to business IT and is particularly well suited to devices such as IP security cameras, wireless access points, and IP phones. Unfortunately, targeting the business IT audience meant the devices tended to be a lot more expensive than consumer equivalents.

That is now changing. I’m finding a fair number of PoE PSE switches (PSE = Power Source Equipment, that supply power on the Ethernet wire) and PoE PD devices (PD = Powered Device) in the consumer price range.  They’re still listed under “business networking” rather than “home networking”, but at least they exist.

He mainly used Netgear PoE switches; I like the MikroTik ones better.

Note there are many Power over Ethernet standards and they have evolved over time. See Source: Power over Ethernet: Standard implementation – Wikipedia

–jeroen

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Very useful link: Software optimization resources. C++ and assembly. Windows, Linux, BSD, Mac OS X

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/02/14

If I ever need to go deep into optimisation again, there is lots I can still learn from [Wayback/Archive] Software optimization resources. C++ and assembly. Windows, Linux, BSD, Mac OS X

Thanks [Archive] Kris on Twitter: “@Kharkerlake @unixtippse Agner Fog ist eigentlich ein Anthropologe, aber er reversed interne Strukturen von Intel CPUs, und …, speziell 3. The microarchitecture of Intel, AMD and VIA CPUs: An optimization guide for assembly programmers and compiler makers ist die HPC Bibel.” / Twitter!

Must watch video with Agner about Warlike and Peaceful Societies below the signature.

–jeroen

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