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Corran Addison – The best, most cogent and elegantly simple explanation into the inexplicably destructive negotiating processes of the president,by Prof. David Honig of Indiana University. | Facebook

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/03

[WaybackSave/Archive] Corran Addison – The best, most cogent and elegantly simple explanation into the inexplicably destructive negotiating processes of the president,by Prof. David Honig of Indiana University. | Facebook

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So when you approach international negotiation, in a world as complex as ours, with integrated economies and multiple buyers and sellers, you simply must approach them through integrative bargaining. If you attempt distributive bargaining, success is impossible.

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From a professional negotiation point of view, Trump isn’t even bringing checkers to a chess match. He’s bringing a quarter that he insists of flipping for heads or tails, while everybody else is studying the chess board to decide whether its better to open with Najdorf or Grünfeld.

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Via [WaybackSave/Archive] Andrea on X: “This is an old post that is making the rounds again. It is an interesting read…”

--jeroen

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The WordPress feature that “beautifies” (malforms!) your Blog text is called `wptexturize`: on WordPress.com you cannot disable it.

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/03

Over the years, WordPress started to beautify more and more text thereby malforming many (read thousands) of my older blog posts.

An example is this:

--jeroen

is now rendered as

–jeroen

The two hypen-minus signs or -- have become a en-dash or –, not even an em-dash or — that is is double the width of an en-dash.

So after figuring out the cause, I asked if one could change it for a WordPress.com blog backed by a premium account: [Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers on Twitter: “Hi @wordpressdotcom, how do I globally disable wptexturize for a paid wiert.wordpress.com blog (it has Premium subscription)? Over the years, it has malformed more and more of my text which I don’t want (as it is way too much work to re-visit thousands of blog posts).”

Unbelievably, the answer is no!

So WordPress.com mandatorily changes the display of all your old Premium blog posts and the only solution they offer is to upgrade for another USD ~17 per month to disable it.

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keirf/greaseweazle: Tools for accessing a floppy drive at the raw flux level

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/31

[Wayback/Archive] keirf/greaseweazle: Tools for accessing a floppy drive at the raw flux level

Interesting drive: [Wayback/Archive] BTC BCO 4816IA 48x 7-in-1 Card Reader CDRW/DVD Combo Drive ODD Computer Laufwerk

More on Greaseweazle:

Via this project allowing many kinds of media to be grabbed:

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Insightful video on arm movements via Chris Kavanagh on X: “Found this in Reddit seems like it might be useful for some people.”

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/31

Cleaning up my open tabs, I found the below insightful video on arm movements via [WaybackSave/Archive] Chris Kavanagh on X: “Found this in Reddit seems like it might be useful for some people.”

Poster on the right, video below the signature, if WordPress now finally decides to embed them properly, from:

[Wayback/Archive] B_Q5gPTwsZVw7nS5.jpg (720×788)

[Wayback/Archive] Tweet JSON

--jeroen

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Chrome on Windows: Keyboard – Move focus to the shortcuts bar – Google Chrome Community

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/31

[Wayback/Archive] Keyboard – Move focus to the shortcuts bar – Google Chrome Community was a great question that I had myself for a long time.

TL;DR: On Windows, you can either cycle focus using F6, Alt + Shift + b to use the keyboard for getting focus to the bookmarks bar.

This is not officially documented for Windows/Linux at [Wayback/Archive] Chrome keyboard shortcuts – Computer – Google Chrome Help:

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Some notes on mini/micro Apple //e emulators

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/30

Retro computing is wildly popular, and with the rise of low cost single-board computers (SBCs for short), both Apple //e and ][+ emulators plus extension cards have proliferated,  based on Raspberry Pi (or even their RP2040 microcontroller based Pico), ESP32 or predecessor ESP8266 microcontrollers and others.

Some links for my archive:

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ELIZAGEN – ELIZA Reanimated: The Original 1965 Chatbot Restored On An Emulated IBM 7094 Running MIT’s CTSS

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/30

Wow, 60 years after her birth, the original ELIZA Chatbot got resurrected after a re-discovered paper version ¹ of the SLIP and MAD based source code was found in the Joseph Weizenbaum archives: [Wayback/Archive] ELIZAGEN – ELIZA Reanimated

Back in 1965, ELIZA ran on top of CTSS on an IBM 7094. Nowadays, few of that hardware is still running, but luckily there are emulators.

Back in the days, a large percentage people chatting with ELIZA thought she was a real person. With the dwindling language proficiency, the rise in believe in alternative facts, and THE RISE OF USE IN ALL CAPS, likely that percentage has increased.

Steps to get started with ELIZA are at [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – rupertl/eliza-ctss: The original ELIZA on an emulated CTSS environment, which carefully got assembled over the course of the last 2 months.

If you want to know about the process, be sure to read the

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Bridgy Fed – bridges to/from BlueSky, Fediverse (including Mastodon) and many web-sites

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/29

I bumped into [Wayback/Archive] Bridgy Fed a while ago. The highlights:

Source is written in Python and HTML. It is available from [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – snarfed/bridgy-fed: 🌉 A bridge between decentralized social network protocols.

The blog post re-introducing it: [Wayback/Archive] Re-introducing Bridgy Fed | snarfed.org.

There is docs too: [Wayback/Archive] Bridgy Fed: docs

Bridgy Fed is a kind of a spin-off from the longer existing [Wayback/Archive] Bridgy which has documentation at [Wayback/Archive] About – Bridgy and source code at [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – snarfed/bridgy: 📣 Connects your web site to social media. Likes, retweets, mentions, cross-posting, and more….

Via [Wayback/Archive] Ionica Smeets (@ionica.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy) — Bluesky who’s primary social media presence is at [Wayback/Archive] Ionica Smeets (@ionica@mathstodon.xyz) – Mathstodon.

I created my [Wayback/Archive] wiert.me profile – Bridgy Fed which resulted in these two entities (that by the time you read this should have some updates):

--jeroen

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python – What is a virtualenv, and why should I use one? – Stack Overflow

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/29

I knew that venv is always needed inside your project directory when using Python, and roughly why, but not exactly why, so the points in the below StackOverflow Q/A sequence and underlying article are important to save in my link archive.

[Wayback/Archive] python – What is a virtualenv, and why should I use one? – Stack Overflow (thanks [Wayback/Archive] Kevin and [Wayback/Archive] Thanh Nguyen).

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Please vote for the LEGO Turing Machine at LEGO ideas

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/28

Last year, a third LEGO Turing Machine that I know of was developed, 12 years after the second one (details below) developed during the 2012 Alan Turing Year and a first one in 2009 (see also below), and this time submitted at LEGO ideas.

[Wayback/Archive] LEGO IDEAS – Turing Machine – Working Lego Computer

Please vote for it, as it will be a great gift not just for computing lovers but also as a learning opportunities.

Links:

Via

All three machines are cool devices, so lets continue with…

Second LEGO Turing Machine

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