Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/16
Some notes as it might enable me to install software that homebrew has deprecated or removed (note that local changes by default are ignored as the brew API takces precedence):
Despite the homebrew repository being a high commit-volume one which makes following it from a clone hard, just did already clone it Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/16
Not all virtualised hardware (older hardware usually has died by now) conforms to the Windows 11 minimum specifications.
So here are some links that should be of help to still get Windows 11 running on those:
If you insist on running older hardware that has a TPM header on the mainboard:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/15
A lot of people publish unattributed copies of the cartoon “Yes the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders.”, so I tried finding it back.
I found out that the Google Image Search has deteriorated to the point where it could not find the 2012 original.
Luckily [Wayback/Archive] Yes the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders. – Google Suche did find the original.
So, without further ado, these are links, the original cartoons by [Wayback/Archive] Tom Toro, first published in The New Yorker:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/15
I wish I had found this overview eons ago: [Wayback/Archive] Managing the Mail Queue Files and Directories.
The most important bits on the various kinds of files that appear in your message queue:
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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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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/11
On my list of things to try out (and see if it is better than an NTP clock):
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/11
For my link archive: [Wayback/Archive] xahteiwi.eu – Handy Git aliases
- List branches by their date of last modification
- Delete old topic branches that have been merged
- Find the origin of a branch point
- Fix trailing whitespace
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/10
[Wayback/Archive] What Every Programmer Should Know about How CPUs Work • Matt Godbolt • GOTO 2024 – YouTube
Main takeaways for me:
- CPU pipelines have grown a lot longer than I was aware off
- there are many more internal registers than I was anticipating
- clever ways to convert if statements to non-jumps
--jeroen
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