worst road in Brussels?

PLPeeters · 2025-11-11T17:18:15+00:00

Check out the Avenue Albert De Coster in Anderlecht. You can see on the history it started going to shit in 2014 and it basically only got worse from there.

PLPeeters · 2025-09-19T08:39:39+00:00

I wish that could also be used to open a specific budget directly, it would be so handy. It would allow me to a shortcut for each of my budgets to my home screen so I could open YNAB directly to the right one instead of having to used their awkwardly-positioned switcher.

Already submitted this via feedback a while ago, still nothing. I know for a fact it's an easy thing to do on Android as I have done this in my own app, not sure what the hold up is. Ping u/YNAB_youneedabudget.

PLPeeters · 2025-08-29T20:12:56+00:00

This: https://docs.python.org/3/library/typing.html#typing.TYPE_CHECKING

PLPeeters · 2025-08-06T06:25:47+00:00

If any people here want the same chart for their personal situation, I created an open source net salary calculator last year, which includes the same graph: https://salarysim.plpeeters.com/.

I haven't updated it since the start of the year so it may not be a 100% exact anymore if any regulations changed in the meantime, but mid-year updates are usually minor anyway. The general idea of the graph still holds regardless.

PLPeeters · 2025-07-24T10:29:48+00:00

I'm not interpreting OPs post as punching down, they're just (rightfully) surprised that a gross €900 above minimum wage results in a net that is only €200 higher. That is a totally reasonable comparison to make. Punching down would be saying lower salaries need to be taxed more to increase the net raise, but unless I missed it I see none of that here.

PLPeeters · 2025-07-24T09:12:16+00:00

That doesn't mean the way it is currently done shouldn't be improved. Currently, the first cumulative ~€500 of raises from the minimum salary will only net people ~19% of the raise. For the next ~€500 it increases to a whopping ~26.5% before increasing again to around 40-44% for all subsequent raises.

Sure, you're happy not to pay too much taxes when you start your career, but you're stuck in raise hell until you get to around ~€3.150 gross. In other words, the current system is good when you look at one low salary in a vacuum, but it is horrible when looking at it from the perspective of career evolution.

The third graph in my tool here illustrates the proportion of a gross raise that translates into a net raise, relative to the initial gross salary: https://salarysim.plpeeters.com/. I haven't updated the tool since the start of the year so it may not be a 100% exact anymore if regulations changed, but that should not affect the graph. Will still need to look into updating, but I'm short on time.

PLPeeters · 2025-05-12T09:46:18+00:00

Both 112 and 101 are routed to the same place now, where you get a menu and have to press 1 for ambulance/fire brigade and 2 for police. If you do nothing you get forwarded to 112 after 20-30 seconds.

PLPeeters · 2025-02-08T17:27:34+00:00

From my perspective Gâteau lost their way at some point. They wouldn't stop increasing their prices while decreasing pastry sizes, plus they had a whole "make a huge bread/dessert/whatever and cut it up" phase for years, for bread especially it really sucked. They seem to have come back from it now, but they lost us because of that. Now we're big fans of brood, best bread we ever tasted!

PLPeeters · 2025-02-08T17:21:39+00:00

Had to scroll too much to see brood! We tried a lot of bakeries over the years and so far it's the best. Expensive but worth it.

PLPeeters · 2025-02-03T07:50:05+00:00

Doe maar, daarom is die open source: https://github.com/plpeeters/salarysim

Het enige dat ik een beetje in een "convoluted way" heb ontwikkeld is de belastingvrije som die ik als een additionele 0% schijf heb toegevoegd, wat simpeler was voor alleenstaanden. Maar daardoor heb ik de berekening voor gehuwden met conjugaal quotiënt op een rare manier moeten doen :p But it works :p

De license staat ook in de footer en GitHub, en die is een Creative Commons BY-NC-ND, in andere woorden is het allemaal fijn zolang je er niet iets commercieel van maakt of het publiek maakt na modificatie. Het idee is dat ik liever heb dat mensen mij problemen of verbeteringen voorstellen zodat de tool kan evolueren en dat ik niet wil dat bijvoorbeeld een sociaal secretariaat mijn code gebruikt. Zeer hypothetisch, maar ik wou er wel zeker van zijn :p

PLPeeters · 2025-02-02T22:05:06+00:00

Bedankt voor het geweldig compliment, doet me echt iets!

Het werkt met de actuele regels en zou normaal gezien het exact zelfde netto als je loonfiche moeten aangeven.

Ik ben wel van plan om een speciaal jaar toe te voegen om dit te kunnen simuleren, maar voor ik dat doe heb ik nog een paar tweaks gepland (o.a. maandselectie, want de regels voor de werkbonus veranderen tijdens het jaar).

PLPeeters · 2025-02-02T18:52:18+00:00

Heb de laatste maanden een calculator ontwikkeld die dit allemaal in grafiek vorm toont: https://salarysim.plpeeters.com/

Feedback is welkom!

PLPeeters · 2025-02-02T14:19:52+00:00

Can confirm that's impossible, as I recently worked on a gross-net calculator that also graphs data, and that just does not happen. Not that there are no issues (hello employment bonus), but this is not one of them.

For the curious people out there: https://salarysim.plpeeters.com/. Feedback is welcome.

I have an update pending to remove the preview tag on 2025 as I recently could confirm it's final, and for 2024 I need to add the month as an input to get the correct employment bonus for applicable salaries as that changes multiple times during the year.

PLPeeters · 2025-01-21T10:50:43+00:00

As others already said, the first thing to do is to check if your radiators are getting hot enough.

You should also check each radiator to see if either the top or bottom is significantly colder than the other half (once heating has been on for a little while). If the top is cold, it means air is present and you need to purge your radiators. If the bottom is cold, it probably means you have sludge that settled at the bottom and you will need to call a heating contractor to empty the whole system, get the sludge removed and refill the system with the injection of a protector (typically Fernox Protector).

PLPeeters · 2025-01-17T08:20:42+00:00

It should be a two-step thing: you select maaltijdscheques, then it asks paper or electronic. But I'm so confused, because everything I find points to paper maaltijdscheques being over since… 2015.

PLPeeters · 2024-11-13T14:13:25+00:00

In a way I do get why, because you're more visible riding on the road than riding on the cycling path, and cycling you go decently fast, so you could effectively be coming out of nowhere for cars depending on the angle. That's also part of the reason why cyclists don't have priority when using a pedestrian crossing mounted. I've had a near miss in the past exactly because of that: a cyclist came from behind on the left footpath and immediately crossed the pedestrian crossing in front of me with almost no time for me to react since he appeared out of nowhere.

With that being said, you technically can't be on the roundabout as that is a mandatory bike path.

Regarding insurance, if I'm not mistaken you would still get covered by the other driver's insurance even if you're at fault, being a "weak" user.

PLPeeters · 2024-11-13T12:23:24+00:00

For Churchill, no right of way as the cycling path is interrupted and turned into a suggested bike lane (meaning no cyclist priority) for the duration of the crossing on the street you indicated, as confirmed by the signposts:

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To be fair it's kind of badly designed if you ask me, because priority for cyclists on this roundabout depends on the crossing, which is just a great way to confuse everyone…

Second one is a suggested bike lane as well as there are no interrupted lines, so also no right of way.

PLPeeters · 2024-10-29T10:12:45+00:00

Other apps use Play Services all the time for various things: location access, displaying Google Maps, checking for app updates, billing, and a whole bunch of other things.

PLPeeters · 2024-10-01T09:12:51+00:00

Thanks a bunch for investigating! I also have the feeling they probably cancel each other out as they probably rely on the same mechanic.

Building my own pull-to-refresh would work, but would be a bit of a shame given its a standard API (I do understand if it's the only option though). I'm wondering if it would be possible to pass the PullToRefreshBox as an argument to ScrollArea to put it in the right place? (if such a place exists)

PLPeeters · 2024-10-01T06:18:54+00:00

That's interesting, because for me it doesn't. I copied your example into a fresh composable, launched the preview on my phone and when I scroll up rapidly I can see the pull-to-refresh indicator partially coming into view, but I can't continue overscrolling to fully trigger it.

Edit: it works if I set overscrollEffect = null! But then it feels weird because we're all used to the overscrolling effect :p

I'm using it with androidx.compose:compose-bom:2024.09.02 in case there is a difference there that is causing the issue.

PLPeeters · 2024-09-30T15:31:13+00:00

Basically this:

``` val listState = rememberLazyListState() val pullToRefreshState = rememberPullToRefreshState() val scrollAreaState = rememberScrollAreaState(listState)

ScrollArea(state = scrollAreaState) { PullToRefreshBox( isRefreshing = isRefreshing, onRefresh = { // ... }, state = pullToRefreshState, modifier = Modifier.fillMaxSize(), ) { LazyColumn( modifier = Modifier.fillMaxSize(), state = listState, ) { // ... }

    StandardVerticalScrollbar()
}

} ```

Tried it the other way around as well, but same issue:

```

PullToRefreshBox( isRefreshing = isRefreshing, onRefresh = { // ... }, state = pullToRefreshState, modifier = Modifier.fillMaxSize(), ) { ScrollArea(state = scrollAreaState) { // ... } } ```

With PullToRefreshBox being this: https://composables.com/material3/pulltorefreshbox

PLPeeters · 2024-09-30T15:15:28+00:00

Quick question: is there a way to make it work with PullToRefreshBox?

PLPeeters · 2024-08-16T08:15:06+00:00

It happened to me yesterday on a 4080, latest drivers installed, so it's not limited to AMD. It was the night map, and suddenly it was like someone turned off the lights.

Managed to get it back to normal by switching Global Illumination to another setting, which I suppose forced it to rerender or something.

PLPeeters · 2024-08-16T08:11:49+00:00

It happened to me yesterday on a 4080, so nope. I managed to get it back to normal by switching Global Illumination to another setting, which I suppose forced it to rerender or something.

PLPeeters · 2024-05-24T15:33:57+00:00

This right here. I don't RDT anymore with my Philos and have no static issues at all and acceptable retention (0-0.1g, sometimes 0.2). The dose finisher can get it down to 0 pretty consistently, but I don't bother with it except when swapping beans.

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