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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/01/09
Though I like Python, I can feel the pain when maintaining in other’s code: [WayBack] How did this shit ever work? – The Isoblog reporting [WayBack] network.py does not handle interface resets properly · Issue #663 · python-diamond/Diamond.
Via: [WayBack] How did this shit ever work? – Kristian Köhntopp – Google+
Image from Reddit: parodies on O RLY Books: [WayBack] imgur.com/qErVcwA: Life on an Ops team…
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/01/08
I know Dutch electronics companies are obliged to provides this service, but bol.com makes it really easy:
Lever je oude apparaat kosteloos in bij bol.com en wij verwerken het op een milieuvriendelijke manier. Zorg ervoor dat het klein elektrisch apparaat geen vloeistoffen en vetten meer bevat. Verpak het tot een stevig pakket en vermeld het bestelnummer van je nieuwe artikel in de linkerbovenhoek en onderstaand adres:
Bol.com E-waste
Antwoordnummer 2002
2130 RH Hoofddorp
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/01/08
Like many, I’m a digital packrat. Somehow all your storage space somehow becomes full over time. But sometimes that’s not because just you are a digital packrat. Applications can be digital packrats too.
Chrome is such an example as on Mac OS X it will keep every prior version filed under /Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/Versions. In my case GrandPerspective showed it as one big blob of close 20 gigabyte. Which is odd as the download itself is was slightly short of 20 gigabyte of Chrome versions.
There are various ways to clean up this by script, but I find the easiest to do this in Finder:
–jeroen
References:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/01/07
Over the last few days I’ve collected a lot of Meltdown and Spectre links at 1984 and (IT) (in)security – Google+.
Most of them provide links to what happened this, year, but a few are also on the path leading to these vulnerabilities. In the links you will also find the affected architectures and patches by various vendors which I have tried to summarise below.
In the link collection, I’ve tried to keep the number of hops to the actual sources as short as possible (as many have re-shared original) links but still attribute to the first one I got the link from.
Since the WordPress “Press-This” functionality is limited, even after all these years, so for now it will be a one-time link dump; filling in more of the archival WayBack and Archive.is links and adding more context will hopefully come later.
I will try to keep links roughly in chronological order (please post a comment where I goofed up) and I hope to find some time to have a “most important” or “summary” list eventually.
Remember:
There are 2 hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-1 errors.
via: [WayBack] TwoHardThings There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things — Phil Karlton (bonus variations on the page)
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/01/07
In the blast of Spectre and Meltdown, don’t forget that humans still goof up: [WayBack] Private keys in software from Blizzard, Electronic Arts, Microsoft, and the German Federal Bar (Bulletproof TLS Newsletter Issue #36).
Luckily enough people keep an eye on these too.
Via:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/01/07
If you run into animation problems in Delphi Tokyo 10.2 update 2, then read [WayBack] … In particular I cannot use the use the animation to change the tab in a TabControl… – Raffaele Miola – Google+.
It is likely that RSP-19525 (10.2 Tokyo Release 2 breaks Animation under Android – App hangs).
Some temporary fixes that might help you are here:
I think that for cross platform and especially mobile development means you need to use tools from vendors that live and breathe that, by constantly showing they master these subjects for instance having good apps in the app stores and examples that are regularly updated to the ever changing field.
I really wonder what the rest of the Delphi community thinks about that.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/01/05
… simply hold the refresh button and then tap on Request Desktop Site. The page should refresh and you should be redirected to web.whatsapp.com and you should be looking at a QR code on the screen of your iPad.
If you know it’s “simply”.
Source: How to Use WhatsApp on iPad
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/01/05
From [WayBack] 1. Presenting Your Presentation – Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances [Book]:
PowerPoint Opens Minimized
THE ANNOYANCE: I can’t get my presentation to open properly when I double-click it. I can see the PowerPoint icon on the taskbar, but it won’t maximize or restore. How can I view the presentation?
THE FIX: Your slide show is set to display on the secondary monitor, which is no longer attached to your computer. Open PowerPoint from Start → Program Files and select File → Open to open your presentation. Then select Slide Show → Set up Show and choose “Display slide show on primary monitor.”
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/01/04
A few people recently discovered the beauty of record helpers:
Record helpers can help any value type (which includes enumerated types) so you can add functions to enumerations.
Class helpers can help class types.
There are no interface helpers and likely won’t be there for a long while.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/01/04
[WayBack] Hi there, this is pure curiosity only; but this compiler behaviour seems odd to me. What do you think?… – Agustin Ortu – Google+
The problems start when you prefix the outer class which you have to when using inner consts ([WayBack] Oh nice. Feel free to QP. Fails at least in Delphi XE8. … – Jeroen Wiert Pluimers – Google+).
The big problem in both cases is a formal language specification. The lack of a formal language specification makes it very hard to predict the effect of use cases or generate them for testing.
So this post is yet another request: Please Embarcadero/Idera, come up with a formal language definition for Delphi.
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 