benibela

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   by benibela 6y ago

   But there is no mono or clap vaccine?
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   by benibela 6y ago

   Until you get too many objects. That can happy quickly nowadays
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   by benibela 6y ago

   FreePascal and Delphi are still modern. FreePascal just added RAII for automated memory management with records. Delphi now has anonymous functions and some kind of type inference for variables
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   by benibela 6y ago

   >I was writing an interpreter using shared ptrs all over the place. I am doing that :/ In Object Pascal it is the standard memory management way. All strings and arrays are reference counted, and so I use it for all my own data stru
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   by benibela 6y ago

   I use Pascal With Lazarus is has a cross platform Desktop GUI
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   by benibela 6y ago

   >For me, rust is the first real competitor in the systems programming market. There are hundreds of languages for application programming. I prefer Haskell, Java and JS for those but I've never found a replacement for C in the low-l
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   by benibela 6y ago

   The Daemon/Freedom novels have an original solution for that An highly advanced non-conscious AI takes over everything Then people can rate each other. And gain experience levels like in a mmorpg. And then people work to improve their
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   by benibela 6y ago

   My biggest problem is writing/presenting efficiently. Usually I spend several hours on a single paragraph or beamer slide. Today I spend all my time preparing my defense presentation (besides social media), but only made drafts for two
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   by benibela 6y ago

   Copying a file is really hard to implement Lots of things can go wrong when writing a file: https://danluu.com/deconstruct-files/
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    by benibela 6y ago

    xml and json are different beasts A json parser can probably be implemented in an afternoon. But a conformant xml parser can take months. There are some weird things in xml, for example, this is correct xml: <?xml version="1.0
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    by benibela 6y ago

    I needed a hashmap in FreePascal I probably spend almost 2 months evaluating hashmaps. There are a dozen separate maps in FreePascal standard library. But they all have some issues. Like a max key length of 255 chars, only working with orde
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    by benibela 6y ago

    And the surrounding tooling Git and C I am using Mercurial and Pascal. But they seem to be dying :(
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    by benibela 6y ago

    In academia, nearly all our commit messages are "..." But once the paper is published no one will ever look at the commits again
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    by benibela 6y ago

    There are probably programmers that do not know there can be more than one line even after looking at a commit with a multi line message
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    by benibela 6y ago

    But that takes a lot of space You could not fit it on a floppy
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    by benibela 6y ago

    When they worked in the office, and now work from home, they would have much more time (no commute!) even if they get paid
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    by benibela 6y ago

    Is vitamin K safe to supplement? Or does it mess with the blood clotting? People recommend really quite doses: K2-MK7 at 100 to 200mcg, or alternatively K2-MK4 15 to 45 mg (not mcg).
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    by benibela 6y ago

    I was in a PhD crisis, but I did not post it anywhere. Not sure if it is allowed to ask for outside help. Although now I have finished the thesis without that part (it should have become an additional chapter). Perhaps I should post it arou
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    by benibela 6y ago

    >In a "platonic ideal" of the internet everyone would have their own internet connection, and a server and say post their own interesting queries and somehow others would find and answer them. That is how it used to be I was la
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    by benibela 6y ago

    And I think math journals would benefit from a wiki approach. Anyone could modify the proofs and add comments/explanations.
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    by benibela 6y ago

    I am not getting anywhere with the latter approach when TAing I ask them such a question, and then wait for 15 minutes, and no one says anything.
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    by benibela 6y ago

    I would already be happy with working builds If you use a non-mainstream compiler it is a horrible mess. Almost every other time I build my program, the compiler crashes and I have to make a clean build. Recently they have fixed the issue,
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    by benibela 6y ago

    I made a greasemonkey script for this purpose. Create XPath, CSS or pattern matching. Unfortunately it stopped working when Firefox got its new API. But here is a video of it: https://youtu.be/PUrBJ6wOXvE?t=50
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    by benibela 6y ago

    I have been using pattern matching for web-scraping. I think it is more robust than XPath. At least more reliable to detect invalid input. Let's look at some of the Robula test cases: Input: <head></head><b
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    by benibela 6y ago

    Dating is also very time consuming That is why I did not do any dating during my PhD
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    by benibela 6y ago

    They offer that, but I do not have a Digipass. So that is something I cannot use just like their app
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    by benibela 6y ago

    I need SMS-2FA because my bank requires 2FA and their non-SMS crap app does not start on my crap phone And apparently that is the case for all banks in the EU I did my taxes this weekend, and to get to the bank tax statement, I first got 5
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    by benibela 6y ago

    My Windows/Linux laptop has a SIM card slot But I do not use it because of risk of getting 2FA compromised :/
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    by benibela 6y ago

    That can change depending on the area Then, I live in Germany. There is a 28% tax on stock market returns, but selling your home is tax free
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    by benibela 6y ago

    But that is still cheaper than paying rent for 30 years