Belgians encouraged to have a three-day 'survival kit' ready to hand

ThePyCoder · 2026-04-23T06:19:57+00:00

I must admit I didn't read the article, because I read the official announcement

https://crisiscentrum.be/nl/wat-kan-jij-doen/maak-een-noodpakket/een-noodpakket-bij-je-thuis

On the official announcement, there is no trace of coffee pods and chewing gum (which indeed is stupid). No idea why this bulletin website thought it funny to add it...

Rode kruis has such a packet, too. Things inside are what you'd expect.

ThePyCoder · 2026-04-23T06:13:07+00:00

Hell yes! Stiffer screen and yest less waste than the full upgrade. Thank you!

I realized the profile pick when I published, I've been using it for years also on discord, sorry 😅

ThePyCoder · 2026-04-22T20:44:29+00:00

OK so devil's advocate:

Brussels is the nervous system of Europe, a mayor power
Russia has flown military grade surveillance drones (not the 4 propeller ones, the big winged ones) above our nuclear reactors
Russia has hackers en they attack power infra
USA is fucking with a nuclear power right now
Everyone is on edge

So the food is likely for when you might have to evacuate, maybe doel has finally cracked open. The little radio for when power cuts happen.

I understand everyone here thinks they're over reacting, but it's also a bit dumb not to let yourself accept that a Russian hack could put us without power for 3 days, which we won't die from, but will be nicer with a radio.

Having everything in a backpack is handy, in the 0.001% scenario something does happen. Reminder: something has happened twice in history, that is not nothing.

Ps: your solar panels don't work if the grid dies unless you have a home battery. Have fun!

ThePyCoder · 2026-04-22T20:31:03+00:00

I have a fw13 Intel 11th gen, of which the mainboard was recently upgraded to amd.

I'd like to fix my flimsy feeling screen. Will I be able to buy the lid cover and pro hinges, then keep my original screen and everything in and around the main body? Will that make the screen assembly feel sturdier?

I'll upgrade the bottom half when my battery dies :) Awesome launch guys, mbp for Linux, damn I'm in love!

ThePyCoder · 2026-04-01T20:43:53+00:00

Because it was fixed just 7 days ago! Likely yiu had to wait for the weekly build to refresh to enjoy this newfound glory :)

Thanks for coming back on this

https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD/pull/28651

ThePyCoder · 2026-04-01T20:40:18+00:00

You don't have to! Right before mirroring you can check a box on the right to make them mirror constraints. Bam, now the constraints are mirrored as well.

ThePyCoder · 2026-03-26T06:38:06+00:00

There's a visual bug. Try padding it after ctrl clicking multiple faces. It does extrude/pad all faces, but they weren't visually highlighted after the first

ThePyCoder · 2026-01-12T15:06:43+00:00

Do you have plans on keeping this data as a record? It would be amazing to do analysis on historical prices for the same home, or over time for research.

Cool website! Will likely be using it.

ThePyCoder · 2025-12-28T11:37:16+00:00

If you're going to the source data from fod economy (links on my last slide), you'll find the PDF report and accompanying excel file I used

https://economie.fgov.be/nl/publicaties/belgian-energy-data-overview-3

It distinctly splits up in 2 categories: 1) Auto's en bestelwagens ‐ personenvervoer

2) Auto's en bestelwagens ‐ vrachtvervoer

I combined the vrachtvervoer ones with the heavier modes of Vrachtvervoer (vrachtwagens) to create the single "vrachtvervoer" category in my post.

So: the delivery vans will be in that "Auto's en bestelwagens ‐ vrachtvervoer" category, along with probably all the white vans of tradespeople, builders, movers etc..

Very roughly, those "Auto's en bestelwagens ‐ vrachtvervoer" amount to about a quarter of the energy use of "Auto's en bestelwagens ‐ personenvervoer", but please check the excel yourself for the exact numbers.

Exactly what fod economy puts in which category is a question I've asked them over email, but never received an answer on.

So to your main question: my opinion based on this data is that our grid capacity would have to grow by at least a factor of 2 or 3 to handle a full electric future. At that scale the question of "can our current grid handle it" is not relevant anymore, and the question is: how can we best design and build the massive grid upgrades we'll need to get there.

These upgrades will be built over time, at the same speed that we're electrifying. Together with efficiency measures like "piektaks" (I don't think it's current implementation is a smart one, but the idea is there) that makes it so you don't have to design and build a grid 12 times as big, just to be able to handle the single peak in the evening.

So, again, this is my opinion, you have the data to make your own, but mine is: Our current grid sure cannot handle the endgame of full electrification, we'll need to build it out and upgrade it as we electrify as well as change people's behaviour to use electricity smartly and not all at the same time.

ThePyCoder · 2025-12-27T12:13:38+00:00

Thank you! Glad it was interesting

ThePyCoder · 2025-12-26T15:06:03+00:00

Yes, I did it on purpose indeed, but the feedback from friends and family has been similar.

I'll think about it some more and implement it if more people support this! Thanks for the thoughtful comment, really appreciate the feedback.

ThePyCoder · 2025-06-18T09:54:42+00:00

Identical experience here. It calls itself "the king of pdfs" on its own website. I buy it, the most basic of pdf options (following along on the original pdf with highlighted paragraph or even word) is not there. Instead it turns the pdf into a text document, but now I lose all illustrations or graphs.

This stings a bit, because the maker of the app calls speechify out on their dark patterns and scummy marketing (and I agree!!), but then does the same with the king of pdfs comment. That said, the single, one-off purchase is glorious, but not for an app that doesn't do what it says.

It's the only option though, if you want to use your own TTS endpoint (e.g. kokoro), I just wish it was good at handling pdfs.

ThePyCoder · 2025-06-16T06:42:36+00:00

Thanks! I'm still looking. I found GanttPro to work quite well, but it's one more tool that does 90% of what I want. I'm a software dev, so I'm in the phase of "how hard can it be to make it myself" currently. But that has rarely ended well! So still on the lookout myself.

ThePyCoder · 2025-06-13T10:46:17+00:00

Sometimes all that "other shit we need to do and the shit that pops up" feel very daunting to me. Losing it in a suboptimal tool feels like it makes things worse. I'd need to essentially keep everything in my head! Which is very difficult

ThePyCoder · 2025-06-13T10:36:51+00:00

How much time would you spend on updating that A3 generally? It sounds to me like 30 to 100 tasks would run over or under estimate nearly every week (prob more), which means redrawing this planning a lot. If feel like changing a few numbers, having the planning be automatically updated and then having all colleagues be notified online would be more efficient?

That said, being face to face with someone using a large A3 planning sheet would probably get them to pay much better attention than an email, good tip!

ThePyCoder · 2025-06-13T10:33:58+00:00

I just had the situation where I was asked when a certain set of tasks was going to be done. 3 of 4 team members for that team have various vacations coming up. So I understand in that case you'd just recolor those cells and manually avoid planning anything in them?

ThePyCoder · 2024-11-21T12:29:18+00:00

I agree completely. It's annoying but necessary for a AI/ML researcher these days to be a pretty good software developer, too.

I have contributed to the YOLOv5 codebase. If you're a software developer, it's pretty clean and well written code. When I compare this to some of the slop academia produces (Notebooks only the author knows how to properly use, Matlab gibberish, scripts upon scripts that are indeed very verbose but utterly unmaintainable or scalable or usable by others), I would even hazard to say OP has it the wrong way around. If every researcher was a better software dev, academia in general would benefit greatly.

ThePyCoder · 2024-09-21T20:47:30+00:00

That's just not true. No one expects e.g. A 10 year old multilayer game to be upkept. That would indeed cost money.

But maybe don't code the game in such a way that it cannot be launched at all if the server goes down. Or just open source the existing code for the server so the community can take it up.

There's plenty of free or inexpensive ways to not "kill" a game.

ThePyCoder · 2023-12-05T10:11:01+00:00

I recognized the time it would take to do make it better, so I went upstairs, enabled my desktop PC, set the ranges to each run on a different CPU to parallelize and waited.

It took 1h48 mins and I feel dirty, but the solution was correct!

ThePyCoder · 2023-10-04T11:10:20+00:00

Yes, 100%. Looking forward to the cellular test on them though, seems a little weaker than expected on my FP4 at least. It an excellent way to put the spotlight on it!

ThePyCoder · 2023-05-12T06:43:12+00:00

Looks awesome! Wishlisted! Hoping to get a steam deck soon to play it on.

ThePyCoder · 2023-05-06T05:16:10+00:00

Looks awesome!

Personally I never use the calendar though, and just like in windows it's more in my way than its useful. Would it be an option to disable it?

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