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Delphi sorcery: Introducing Spring.Benchmark – a port of Google benchmark

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/14

On my list of tools to experiment with: [Wayback/Archive] Delphi sorcery: Introducing Spring.Benchmark – a port of Google benchmark

This got released while I was recovering from cancer procedures, to I totally missed it.

Interesting stuff, as I knew there was the Google benchmark library*, but since I hardly do any C++ work, I never used it.

* [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – google/benchmark: A microbenchmark support library

The source code for the Delphi based Spring.Benchmark library is at [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – spring4d/benchmark: Delphi port of Google Benchmark, especially [Wayback/Archive] benchmark/Spring.Benchmark.pas at master · spring4d/benchmark · GitHub.

Videos to watch before using it:

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Raymond Chen on The AArch64 processor (aka arm64) in many parts

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/14

For my link archive: below a series of articles my Raymond Chen on “The AArch64 processor (aka arm64)” in the order of appearance from a few years back and still very relevant today.

It is part of a few more series on processors that (were) supported by Windows. A good reference to find which version supported which processor architecture is the tables in List of Microsoft Windows versions – Wikipedia.

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Posted in AArch64/arm64, ARM, Assembly Language, Development, History, MIPS R4000, PowerPC, Software Development, The Old New Thing, Windows Development, x64, x86 | Leave a Comment »

Thread by @0gtweet on Thread Reader App – retrieve your BitLocker password, store the password in your password manager and make a backup of it!

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/13

Image[Wayback/Archive] Thread by @0gtweet on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App

A very friendly reminder, especially for non-corporate PCs protected with BitLocker: if you are not sure if you have your Recovery Password handy, you can display it any moment with “manage-bde -protectors -get c:”
Store the password in your password manager and make its backup!

Note: manage-bde.exe -protectors -get c: needs admin rights!

--jeroen

Posted in Microsoft Surface on Windows 7, Power User, Windows, Windows 10, Windows 11, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2019, Windows Server 2022 | Leave a Comment »

Manu Keirse: Raakt een mens het verdriet over een overleden dierbare ooit kwijt?

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/13

Voor op een tegeltje.

[Wayback/Archive] Andrea on Twitter: “Mooi. Uit een interview met Manu Keirse. Wat een prachtige quote. “

Manu Keirse: Raakt een mens het verdriet over een overleden dierbare ooit kwijt?

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Posted in About, Awareness, Health, Inclusion / inclusive society, LifeHacker, Personal, Power User | Leave a Comment »

VideoLAN on Twitter: “VLC automatic subtitles generation and translation based on local and open source AI models running on your machine working offline, and supporting numerous languages! Demo can be found on our #CES2025 booth in Eureka Park.” (video)

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/11

Weekend, so catching up on CES 2025 news.

If you are at CES, be sure to go visit the VideoLAN booth in Eureka Park to witness what I think is likely the most important CES 2025 AI news:

[Wayback/Archive] VideoLAN on X: “VLC automatic subtitles generation and translation based on local and open source AI models running on your machine working offline, and supporting numerous languages! Demo can be found on our #CES2025 booth in Eureka Park.”

In my opinion, though a remarkable statistic, their 6-billion downloads gimmick is just a teaser for the way more important news what this AI LLM is:

  • free / open-source
  • off-line
  • subtitles plus translations
  • 100 languages

Whisper already ran circles around the YouTube automatic subtitle generator, and their automatic translations are far below par (see video below), so having new contender is great!

VideoLAN tremendously raises the bar for all commercial vendors, and at the same time makes:

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Laurens on X: “Heel goed item van Lubach over erfbelasting #Avondshow”

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/10

[Wayback/Archive] Laurens on X: “Heel goed item van Lubach over erfbelasting #Avondshow”:

[Wayback/Archive] Moet erfbelasting omhoog? | De Avondshow met Arjen Lubach (S6) – YouTube

Aan de andere kant heeft inmiddels een groot deel van hele generatie hun halve werkzame leven voor een flink deel besteed aan onbetaalde zorg om de gaten van de zorg dicht te lopen. Daarmee is een flink deel van die erfbelasting gewoon belasting op misgelopen inkomsten.

--jeroen

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nixCraft on Twitter: “Here is how to check if you are affected by a known vulnerability in your hardware (CPU) when using Linux including mitigation status”

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/10

[Wayback/A] nixCraft on Twitter: “Here is how to check if you are affected by a known vulnerability in your hardware (CPU) when using Linux including mitigation status: grep -r . /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/“

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Delphi Discord servers

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/09

Besides the Delphi Praxis servers (the [Wayback/Archive] German one has existed for what seems eternity, the [Wayback/Archive] English one took over the Google Plus Delphi group – see Google is sunsetting Google+ by August 2019; DelphiPraxis might start English forums and have RSS – and de-facto the dead Embarcadero forums as the old newsgroup servers went dead, and the new ones weren’t known for their high up-time [Wayback/Archive] community.embarcadero.com’s forums – General Help – Delphi-PRAXiS [en]), nowadays – with the shortened attention span of many people – Discord has a few Delphi servers as well:

They are chat based, and suffer from messages and threads disappearing, just like the Delphi newsgroups and forums suffered from, and archiving content can be difficult or impossible (not just because of the Wayback Machine being down).

Queries:

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Kristian Köhntopp on MySQL primary keys

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/09

Recommended reading: [Wayback/Archive] MySQL: GIPK (InnoDB and Primary Keys) | Die wunderbare Welt von Isotopp

(Based on his Twitter thread archived at [Wayback/Archive] Thread by @isotopp on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App that started with his tweet below).

Via [Wayback/Archive] Kris on Twitter: “blog.koehntopp.info/2022/08/23/mysql-gipk.html In which we have a look at MySQL 8.0.30 and Generate Invisible Primary Key”.

--jeroen

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Adding entries to the PATH persistently (be aware of the 1024 character limit of SETX)

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/08

Directly after a new Windows installation, I want to have my cloned git repository of batch files in the PATH persistently so that it gets searched after rebooting or opening a new console window.

At that moment, there is not much of a 1024 PATH character limitation, but be aware about that limit if you try this yourself.

This is my add-current-directory-to-path-at-end.persistent-and-limit-to-1024-characters.bat:

:: https://serverfault.com/questions/664180/can-i-permanently-add-to-path-in-windows-using-batch
:: https://superuser.com/questions/812754/how-to-recover-from-path-being-truncated-to-1024-characters-by-setx
:: global environment
setx PATH "%PATH%;%CD%"
:: local process
:: https://superuser.com/questions/975605/add-current-directory-to-path
set PATH=%PATH%;%CD%

I execute it from within the cloned git directory.

Oh: you need to double-quote the SETX parameters, otherwise you get an error message: “ERROR: Invalid syntax. Default option is not allowed more than '2' time(s).“.

More links than the above ones from the batch file, especially on the 1024 character limitation:

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