benibela

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   by benibela 6y ago

   How can you be a post-doc without publishing?
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   by benibela 6y ago

   Canon Powershot A20 here It is really old. It needs a CF card not an SD card. A phone would probably be better, but I do not have a modern phone
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   by benibela 6y ago

   Perhaps the glass of the helmet could be formed like a lens, so you do not need glasses underneath?
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   by benibela 6y ago

   There is this classic: https://i.imgur.com/rG0p0b2.gif
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   by benibela 6y ago

   I profile in valgrind :/
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   by benibela 6y ago

   Try an open-source linux phone?
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   by benibela 6y ago

   >I wouldn't publish the results of my multi year scientific effort on a platform "anyone" could make changes. Publishing is taken far too importantly in academia >Reviewer are expected to have a suitable qualification a
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   by benibela 6y ago

   A wiki Then anyone can correct mistakes
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   by benibela 6y ago

   With the right skills, you can do it with an abacus
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    by benibela 6y ago

    Imagine living in a monastery with no technology besides bolt, chord, and sphere
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    by benibela 6y ago

    There are also other low-level languages besides C and Rust I use Pascal, and I never have any buffer overruns in my code. If there were any, Pascal's automatic bound checking on array indices would raise an exception The only issue is
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    by benibela 6y ago

    My pet peeve is the new file handling The programs used to ask for a file name before saving it somewhere. Programs with modern UI/UX just save the file to a random place and then you have to search it. The browser saves it to Download
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    by benibela 6y ago

    C has unions What more do you need?
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    by benibela 6y ago

    That is why Pascal also has raw pointers and inline assembly So it is safe by default, but for those hotspots where it actually matters, you can write the most performant, unsafe code
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    by benibela 6y ago

    And how could I make sure that the gradle I start on the command line and the gradle started by Android Studio use the same daemon?
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    by benibela 6y ago

    At least it is mentioned I used to believe Object Pascal would replace C++, but now it is not even mentioned
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    by benibela 6y ago

    I have always been using Pascal It used to solve 1 (although it becomes worse every year when new languages feature are introduced), it solves 2, and most of 3 (with automated reference counting)
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    by benibela 6y ago

    10^27? Then for bytes we also need 2^90. Hebibytes?
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    by benibela 6y ago

    XPath has such a thing: (4, 5, 6, 7) ! (. + 7)
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    by benibela 6y ago

    When the escalator malfunctions, you get a staircase
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    by benibela 6y ago

    In Sundiver by David Brin they put all the heat in a laser, so they can beam it away from their craft
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    by benibela 6y ago

    I put them on Github
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    by benibela 6y ago

    >But - generally, having widespread (ideally very sensitive) COVID testing for any type of travel outside of the home is a good thing. It would also be good to test for any disease before traveling. Flu, cold, just stay home for those, t
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    by benibela 6y ago

    And they discovered that Tardigrades are probably already everywhere, since they can travel through the mycelial network
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    by benibela 6y ago

    And they have already added generics to Pascal It really makes Go look like a joke
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    by benibela 6y ago

    I tried to build one in high school, but it did not work :( I think the school had a hand powered high voltage generator with some kind of leather band I took it to university and gave it to a professor who might have a more stable HV power
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    by benibela 6y ago

    I bought some millibitcoins in 2018, at almost the worst time Last week it has become my best investment so far Although now I wonder if I should sell them
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    by benibela 6y ago

    In an older version there was autocompletion for typing. You could type /tmp/a. and it would autocomplete it to /tmp/a.png It is a good idea, but I type too fast. So I would write /tmp/a.png and then the autoco
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    by benibela 6y ago

    Windows 98 had the best GUI Everything that came later has turned into crap Also, I use the Lazarus Pascal IDE. After updating from Kubuntu 20.04 to Ubuntu 20.10, it has started crashing every other time I open a file with its GTK2 file cho
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    by benibela 6y ago

    Somehow nextcloud shows a system tray icon on my Gnome laptop Looks like there are still tray icons, they just need to be implemented differently?