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benibela
6y ago
No! For the old-school feel it must be without javascript
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6y ago
We should bring back the webrings
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6y ago
Delphi had mutable xor aliased strings. That is really great. Each function can change the string as fast as a mutable string, but once it shared with other functions, they can be certain that it will not be changed randomly
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6y ago
neutrino
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6y ago
I had the opposite experience in a Google interview. I just said, that can be solved with a topological sort, and then we moved on. But I failed with another interviewer. He kept asking how to prevent hashing from producing collisions. The
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6y ago
>Recently I was thinking about how my brain answers the question "What's your favorite movie?" and how I can easily answer that question, I can hardly answer that question I think I need to make a table of all movies I wa
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6y ago
I have an open source project, where someone decided to compile it on OS/2. They send me the binaries for OS/2 for every release till 2016 Apparently modern C++ and Qt run there without issues
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6y ago
I thought this would be about Carter and the guinea worm
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6y ago
> userspace ARM translation What does that mean? The x86 system image can run arm code? I will try that (might get confusing if there is an arm and x86 lib in the apk). I have been using the image without google apis to save space, becau
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6y ago
I work on the cheapest 14'' laptop I could find. I bought it last year and thought I do not need a good computer, since I thought I would spend most on my time on the PC in the office anyways.
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6y ago
I use Pascal for that
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6y ago
I also need an emulator, because I have native binaries Unfortunately, there is only an aarch64 emulator for Android 7, which does not start on my system
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6y ago
Then let's ask instead, why use Nim over Pascal?
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6y ago
I would buy it online, if it were not more expensive In the store I spend between 10 to 20€/week for food. The online shops have an almost 5€ shipping fee. That is a 25% food expense increase, at best
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6y ago
> That remote working is always better in all conceivable scenarios and that anyone saying anything else is stupid and wasteful This. Exactly this. >and probably smells too? But not this. It is probably the opposite. When I work remot
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6y ago
It is true. Here, unexaminedlife is right about everything
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6y ago
>you probably prefer to have teammates in your timezone Probably, but not everyone at one location actually lives in the same timezone My personal timezone is shifted three hours to the west from everyone else here
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6y ago
I use Mercurial for almost everything The hg command line options are far more sane than git. And TortoiseHg is the best gui ever But I might switch eventually, when even bitbucket is dropping hg support. And many linux distributions stoppe
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6y ago
If you pay for a VPN, you could just as well pay for the official streaming service
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6y ago
Average here is € 59 814 / year
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6y ago
Perhaps it would be cheaper to buy the SSD separately and add it yourself?
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6y ago
>Older versions of C had the restriction that variables could only be declared at the start of a block. Pascal also has that restriction Although Delphi does not have it anymore. But FreePascal still has it, even in Delphi compatible mod
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6y ago
Happens on other platforms, too I had a Firefox plugin that would tweet all my bookmarks. Years later I noticed all the tweets were hidden from search
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6y ago
What if they prefer an XML database (like basex, exist, marklogic)?
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6y ago
It does not work in private mode Perhaps I had opened the page without noscript in the past, and it still had the relevant cookies
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6y ago
per hour?
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I am using Bob Jenkin's one_at_a_time hash for that purpose. It is really simple and works with unaligned data. But it is not doing well in benchmarks. I wonder if I should use another one
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6y ago
> How did you manage that? I probably started coding, and then forgot to finish it ... (not in LabView to be clear)
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6y ago
It also handles NoScript well Text, images, and no scripts
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6y ago
>D has @property functions, which are methods that you call with what looks like field access, so in the above example, c.d might call a function. Rust has operator overloading, so the + operator might call a function. But I love propert
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