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by benibela 6y ago
That must have been a very old Pascal Nowadays there is the @ operator
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by benibela 6y ago
This one in Germany: https://webopac.stadtbibliothek-aachen.de/libero/WebOpac.cls... And probably all that use such a webopac system
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by benibela 6y ago
Many libraries (the book kind) turn their webpage catalogue off for the night and turn it back on in the morning
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by benibela 6y ago
I wrote three The first one was some kind of macro processor to insert text in files. I do not remember the syntax, but in each file it was like: %headermacro% ...the content... %footer%. Then the macros were replaced by layout data, turni
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by benibela 6y ago
I always run it under a separate user account because it looks so sketchy I thought it was sketchy by association. It used to be always recommended by sketchy pirate sites to bypass the download limits on sketchy one-click-hosters
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by benibela 6y ago
When I wrote a Windows app for my university's library and they told me they do not want a commercial app Then I spent years sending them emails. I did not receive an answer, but it kept me too busy to any other projects or jobs. Now t
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by benibela 6y ago
There is no difference to native compilation FreePascal always knows the same Windows APIs, no matter on what it is compiling
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by benibela 6y ago
FreePascal works well, too, once it is installed To compile to linux it needs to have a linker installed. For windows it has an internal linker, so probably does not even need that
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by benibela 6y ago
Cross compiling from Linux to Win32 works perfectly with FreePascal
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by benibela 6y ago
They just need to check whether the flag is on the whitelist or the blacklist
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by benibela 6y ago
In Lensmen, they build iron-powered spaceships They are far more powerful than other kinds of spaceships
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by benibela 6y ago
GPT-3: I need 17 billion parameters to create text
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by benibela 6y ago
I have one without animation but with more colors: http://www.benibela.de/web-apps_en.html?&cmgenerate=true&cmf...
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by benibela 6y ago
N = 10^85
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by benibela 6y ago
Ascendancy was great, colonizing planets and building a space empire But you need to get the version with improved AI or it is not challenging
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by benibela 6y ago
It is better in GUI applications. You have 1% of code dealing with user data, and 99% of code doing other things For example, a text editor. If it crashes, you lose all your text since the last save, which is very bad. But the editor also d
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by benibela 6y ago
In Pascal you can easily create such a type OneToFive = 1..5 It should inherit all the normal arithmetic, but does not allow values outside the range However, these kind of types are causing a lot of problems. You do arithmetic on them, get
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by benibela 6y ago
>Typical grad stipends outside of top-5 schools are closer to $20K. I am doing a PhD in Germany and get 54k € The wage is regulated, everyone who has worked full-time at the university for a few years will earn the same. Although most gr
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by benibela 6y ago
There are other useful things besides functions Sequences for example. In XPath 1 the query returns a set, so the output is always in document order. When the document reorders things, the query output changes, and you can never get the ori
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by benibela 6y ago
I did not plan to implement it all, only the parts I needed for the webpages in my city. At first I did not even have backward axes. But people care much more about XPath than they care about my city I also was doing too much competitive pr
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by benibela 6y ago
The biggest problem with the new XPath versions is that the W3C made the standards, but almost no one implemented them, so you cannot actually use them I was doing web scraping, and needed regular expressions to get the text, so I have imp
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by benibela 6y ago
That is great, until you have to use JSON
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by benibela 6y ago
I have to deal with this all the time. Unfortunately I wrote my programs in FreePascal, because Pascal was supposed to be the best, fastest, and safest language, but it is very bad at solving these kinds of problems. I wrote my own renderin
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by benibela 6y ago
I just went from a linux laptop to a dual boot laptop I already have enough trouble with an unencrypted file system Not sure where to keep my user files. On NTFS, they are hard to reach from linux. On ext, they are hard to reach from Window
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by benibela 6y ago
Omg, I set that registry setting yesterday But the time is still an hour off
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by benibela 6y ago
Here is another one: https://github.com/BeRo1985/besen
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by benibela 6y ago
Poverty guideline for 2 kids is $26k But who is getting 30k anyways? If that is the stipend of one grad student, you need to double it to get the household of two grad students, and then it is over the median household income. The median
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by benibela 6y ago
A calculator cannot write a novel or learn to do a new task There is a fundamental difference between an AGI that can perform any human task and a tool that can only do one task. So far there has always been something only humans can do, so
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by benibela 6y ago
In older languages, you could have used goto Somehow it went out of favor but it is actually really nice to break out of something
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by benibela 6y ago
I still write all my projects in Pascal Memory safety has become a modern buzzword, but Pascal had memory safe strings and arrays decades ago, based on automated reference counting. Now it also has other types that are not memory safe, bu

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