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by benibela 6y ago
I implemented Huffman Coding when I was 14 years old: http://benibela.de/sources_en.html#huffman.zip Probably the first non-trivial data structure/algorithm I had implemented (previously I was making games, where you n
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by benibela 6y ago
Recently I bought an used laptop from 2013 for 160€ and updated the RAM to 16GB. It would have been perfect, except it was a thin laptop with a U-suffix CPU. I did not know U used to mean it is much slower than M :( Now I am stuck. Not bad
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by benibela 6y ago
>core tenet of the book was that the clock domains of the universe were drifting apart at an accelerated rate and the protagonists were trying to stop it. Another idea would be to have the clocks running backwards.
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by benibela 6y ago
That is why I use Pascal and never had a safety problem when processing strings. It is completely baffling that people still use C in production Only issue is that the default string type requires heap allocations
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by benibela 6y ago
And it is supposed to be safer than a language that is only memory-safe The memory-safe languages can still panic or have integer overflows, Wuffs should prevent even that
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by benibela 6y ago
Or Ada or Wuffs But I have always used Pascal for that. It has memory safe strings and arrays with refcounting, so long as one avoids using other features like pointers, classes, inline assembly, it is perfect.
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by benibela 6y ago
Well, then it is good, I did not make a JIT (only XPath AST, not even bytecode) Although I have been thinking about making a JIT. Building on for x86 is easy enough, but then it is useless for ARM. I would not want to build two JITs. Or fo
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by benibela 6y ago
I made an app to show the books you have lend at a public library And to make sure it can be used with all existing libraries web sites and all opacs, you can enter any url and an xpath expressions, and then it runs the xpath expressions ea
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by benibela 6y ago
Or is it trimodal? As open-source developer I earn nothing for developing
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by benibela 6y ago
There is no M in FAANG?
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by benibela 6y ago
I do not know such a place in Germany as well. It is very disappointing after growing up reading BOFH
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by benibela 6y ago
Perhaps that means gold is now cheaper than the index and thus will perform better than the index? Germany has weird taxes. There there is a 25% tax on stock market returns. But no tax on gold sales. Nor on Bitcoin sales. Although silver is
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by benibela 6y ago
They were fun with Delphi on Windows 98
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by benibela 6y ago
I said that in a philosophy exam in school, and got a D- for it
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by benibela 6y ago
Judea Pearl won a Turing award for a definition of causality
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by benibela 6y ago
I started a project in 2006 with Delphi I still maintain it But I ported it to FreePascal/Lazarus, since I did not want to buy newer versions
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by benibela 6y ago
>The program itself was very, very, very shitty, but it worked well for him. For example, at that point I didn't even knew that arrays existed, so all the logic and multiplication was done manually, like label43 = textInput25 * text
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by benibela 6y ago
When you can publish it? Without publishing it rather becomes tomb raiding even after thousands of years
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by benibela 6y ago
They learn to interact with other kids at school. But as adults people need to interact with adults. Nothing one learns at school has any relevance for that
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by benibela 6y ago
>Can't you take the tests ahead of time if you ask No I moved ahead by studying computer science at the university when I was 13 years old. Thereby I was taking courses at school and university in parallel. But the school courses we
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by benibela 6y ago
It is far too bureaucratic In Germany I can't get welfare, because I have too many savings. After graduating from university, I also could not get unemployment benefits because I had not earned enough when working as student. Last tim
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by benibela 6y ago
I have been writing a grant proposal for months I am also supposed to have finished it months ago, but I really have no idea what I should write there. The current grant from my PI expires in two weeks, and then I have no funding
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by benibela 6y ago
70 percent of all security bugs are caused by comp.lang.c
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by benibela 6y ago
Or Delphi and XPath
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by benibela 6y ago
I am not paid to write code. I am a scientist, paid to write papers, grants, and a summary of my PhD. Now why am I not writing the grant? Because I would rather write code
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by benibela 6y ago
I once tried to get my app in F-Droid, but they refused, because they did not want to install the dependencies because the dependencies were too big. Turns out you cannot compile something without dependencies. I wrote my app in FPC/La
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by benibela 6y ago
I have a collection of non-utf8 and other problematic files to test such tools: https://github.com/benibela/nasty-files You probably cannot clone the repo on Windows. It works well on Linux. But in KDE you could not de
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by benibela 6y ago
No texstudio (although that uses poppler)
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by benibela 6y ago
That is how it is in Europe
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by benibela 6y ago
I made TeXstudio because I wanted to write a novel using LaTeX Then I integrated LanguageTool as grammar checker Then I tried to modify LanguageTool as part-of-speech classifier. Because I found writing advice like, strike through every adj

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