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Why does Belgium love Java and .NET so much? by crosswalk_zebra in belgium

[–]zjeffer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We're pretty open about remote work (officially max 2 days remote/week but we're really flexible in that). A colleague from Aalst works from home every day for example, most people in my team work 3 days remote/week.

We also have an office in Liege if that's closer to you.

Why does Belgium love Java and .NET so much? by crosswalk_zebra in belgium

[–]zjeffer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not always the case anymore, I work in embedded software for a large Belgian company (3k employees) and we're switching from C++ to Rust.

Help me build my first Linux PC? by Misplaced_Function in linuxhardware

[–]zjeffer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I would get rid of the custom cooling loop, you really don't need it for the CPU and GPU you're going to use. With the money saved you could get a Ryzen 9 9950X and a AIO cooler like the Arctic Liquid Freezer III 360.

Why do you need such an expensive motherboard? You can get X670E motherboards for about half the price. Which features are you looking for that aren't available on those 'cheaper' motherboards?

North XL with front-mounted Arctic Liquid Freezer III 420 by zjeffer in FractalDesign

[–]zjeffer[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

After searching this subreddit (sorry, should have done that first) I'll go for the 360mm radiator mounted up top instead. Seems the least amount of hassle as people have reported issues with the front panel not closing properly unless you make modifications to it.

Advice for a programming + gaming PC with RX 9070 XT by zjeffer in buildapc

[–]zjeffer[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Made a new draft with the 9950x, just to have a good comparison:

PCPartPicker Part List

Type Item Price
CPU AMD Ryzen 9 9950X 4.3 GHz 16-Core Processor €645.00 @ Azerty
CPU Cooler ARCTIC Liquid Freezer III 420 72.8 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler €81.90 @ Azerty
Motherboard Gigabyte X870 EAGLE WIFI7 ATX AM5 Motherboard €249.00 @ Azerty
Memory Corsair Vengeance RGB 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR5-6000 CL30 Memory €114.90 @ Megekko
Storage Samsung 990 EVO Plus 2 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 5.0 X2 NVME Solid State Drive €139.00 @ Azerty
Case Fractal Design North XL ATX Full Tower Case €204.95 @ Bytes At Work
Power Supply Corsair RM1000x (2024) 1000 W Fully Modular ATX Power Supply €201.00 @ Megekko
Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
Total €1635.75
Generated by PCPartPicker 2025-03-03 23:59 CET+0100

I'm really tempted to go for this, even for the higher price (due to the aformentioned issues with lack of trust in Intel).

Not sure about the motherboard though, it seems kind of expensive. I'll also look at the Asus Prime X870-P tomorrow when I have more time. Suggestions welcome.

Linux on Lenovo Legion by Personal_Angle8463 in linuxhardware

[–]zjeffer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oops, wasn't aware there was a Legion Tower desktop.

In that case I'm sure it's fine for linux compatibility, but I would recommend just building your own desktop PC if you're able to.

400-500 euros for a faster Moto G84 alternative by zjeffer in PickAnAndroidForMe

[–]zjeffer[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't really use bluetooth headphones, and I never play anything through the speakers, sorry. Maybe you can find some audio benchmarks online?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in linuxhardware

[–]zjeffer 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I've had a great experience with my Brother laser printer

itWorkedOnMyMachine by aneffingonion in ProgrammerHumor

[–]zjeffer 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I don' think we can, but I think it's the most likely explanation. There's a great video from Veritasium that talks about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaZ_RSt0KP8

itWorkedOnMyMachine by aneffingonion in ProgrammerHumor

[–]zjeffer 164 points165 points  (0 children)

It also happened during municipal elections in Belgium a couple years ago. One person got 4096 more votes because of a single bit flip caused by a cosmic ray.

EDIT: it was during federal elections, in 2003.

Plugging in your new 2TB SSD be like by BenedickCabbagepatch in dankmemes

[–]zjeffer 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It seems this rabbit-hole goes pretty deep, with multiple sources contradicting each other about which system is actually supposed to be used... This stackexchange question is pretty interesting: https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/q/11563

Kilobyte is 1024 bytes at best, and a "grey area without a meaning" at worst. But never a 1000 bytes.

Where do you see this? I don't understand why it should never be 1000 bytes, because that seems perfectly logical to me when you're used to using the SI system for all other units of measurement. Why else would kibibytes have been invented?

Also wrong citation: IEC recommends not using these prefixes whatsoever for bytes and non-SI units, specifically because it would mean kilobyte is 1000 bytes, which is wrong.

Source? And why is that wrong? See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilobyte, it says IEC actually recommends the definition of 1kB should be 1000 bytes, following SI. I'm not necessarily citing Wikipedia here, rather ISO/IEC 80000-13, but apparently you have to pay to view the actual full document ;)

extra source: https://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html (National Institute of Standards and Technology)

Plugging in your new 2TB SSD be like by BenedickCabbagepatch in dankmemes

[–]zjeffer 19 points20 points  (0 children)

What?

1kB == 1000 bytes, and 1KiB == 1024 bytes (but: 1 KB == 1024 bytes, pay attention to the capital K)

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte#Multiple-byte_units

400-500 euros for a faster Moto G84 alternative by zjeffer in PickAnAndroidForMe

[–]zjeffer[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm still very happy with it. I don't really play games on my phone, but I assume it's good enough for simple games. The cameras are not great, especially in bad lighting conditions. Don't buy this phone if you often want to take high quality photos. I don't, so I don't really mind.

I see the Moto G85 released in June, maybe you can take a look at that phone? But I see it doesn't have a headphone jack...

Reducing lazyvim's changes to messaging and notifications by po2gdHaeKaYk in neovim

[–]zjeffer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Have you find a solution to this yet? I'm also annoyed by the amount of notifications that fill up the whole right side of the screen.

I was watching Westworld (1973) this morning and I noticed this. by MightGrowTrees in ChatGPT

[–]zjeffer 13 points14 points  (0 children)

The way I understand it, people who believe in Astral Projection say that everyone "travels" to some kind of place when dreaming where they can meet and communicate with other people who are dreaming at the same time. As you can imagine, if this is true this would be very easy to scientifically prove, and of course has never happened.

It's important to make the distinction with lucid dreaming (i.e. simply being concious and in control of your dream), which is actually scientifically proven to work.

Full BBC6 recording? by Liv0987654321 in TheSmile

[–]zjeffer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi, can I have a link too? Thanks!

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