Posted by jpluimers on 2024/10/07
My Twitter thread from a while ago on the TEAC CA-200 IEM Dell card reader which I based on my own pictures and these searches:
Here we go (also threaded at [Wayback/Archive] Thread by @jpluimers on Thread Reader App):
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/10/04
21[Wayback/Archive] 3-laags toiletpapier XXL – Lidl 20 rollen van 200 vel voor EUR 6.49.
Met een verbruik van een rol per dag is dat hier een handige koop.
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/10/04
A while ago I learned that since Windows 8, sometimes it uses LaunchTM.exe (which is not even on Wikipedia) to start TaskMgr.exe.
I could find little information about the why, so here are some links with information on when LaunchTM.exe is used (which is confusing) and what command-line parameters TaskMgr.exe can get (also confusing as the order of parameters matter):
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/10/04
I quote the last tweets in the series starting with [Wayback/Archive] Jack Rhysider on Twitter: “If you’re in IT, I highly encourage you to write a blog. Here are 17 reasons why you should be blogging. 🧵👇”
1…17.
So to recap. By blogging you will become a better writer and communicator, learn the concepts better, open new opportunities, have a fantastic notebook for self reference, maybe make money, become appreciated by more people, and show off your IT skills.
So how do you get started? Try these: WordPress, Jekyll, Ghost, Hugo, Medium, Wix, Squarespace. I really don’t care what you use. Just jump in and start blogging. You can always move everything to a different place later. Good luck and I hope to see some new bloggers from this.
and a few ones that came up in the responses:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/10/03
The result C macros having become more lenient on the types they expect, is that they can become very large expansions. This not only causes long expanded code lines, but also
This shows you some examples:
[Wayback/Archive] Lorenzo Stoakes on social.kernel.org: For those interested in the ‘combinatorial explosion of min()/max() macro’ thing slowing down kernel builds, witness the horrors :))
[Wayback/Archive] Re: [PATCH 0/7] minmax: reduce compilation time – Linus Torvalds
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/10/03
For my link archive (please check the page as by now the table might have changed from what I quote below) [Wayback/Archive] Unicode spaces and the WordPress classic editor might have mangled it.
I like the table as it embeds the spaces between foo and bar so it easy to copy paste them to code or documentation.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/10/02
Back when my life was in turmoil, lots of interesting things were posted. In the aftermath, I try to catch up with them at a reasonable pace.
This was one by Ron Jeffries (Extreme Programming, Agile Manifesto) blog post [Wayback/Archive] Story Points Revisited.
It is one of the many posts over the last decade or so that tries to make people aware that being agile, or doing extreme programming is vastly different from holding onto the agile process dogmas introduced over the last 2+ decades.
The thing is: these dogmas are exactly why extreme programming and the agile manifesto came into place: blindly following rules is not going to get you anywhere.
Figuring out how your organisation works, then step by step figuring out which parts of extreme programming or agile manifesto fit best for improving your work, implementing them and looping back while keeping a close eye on which practices still work best is the way to go.
Jeffries appologised for sort of having coined the term “story points” (which come from “ideal days”).
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/10/02
I forgot what triggered me querying for [Wayback/Archive] can windows user names contain spaces – Google Search.
Boy I was surprised that the answer is yes.
Following that I was totally not surprised that:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/10/01
The term “prompt engineer” actually everything about programming that programming is about: it’s just trading a known output language with cleanly defined rules for an unknown country that assembles pieces of text based on statistics.
[Wayback/Archive] Ian Brown ☑️: “Tired: “code generation” Wired…” – Mastodon
Tired: “code generation”
Wired: “software-defined software”
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/10/01
A long time ago, I wrote about How to hide an entire drive from prying eyes on Windows 10 | Windows Central.
The easiest way is still to add/modify a NoDrives value in the Registry, but regrettably [WayBack] NT Drive Calculator – The ‘NoDrives’ Registry Key Value Calculator is down (it was a server-side solution, so the WayBack Machine link does display a page, but the calculator does not function).
My use case is that I have an existing NoDrives value that I want to update (as there have been one or more drive letters added/changed).
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 