benibela

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   by benibela 7y ago

   As a researcher ... I use tikz
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   by benibela 7y ago

   All my own open-source projects. Thousands of hours wasted
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   by benibela 7y ago

   It is elsewhere: https://sourceforge.net/directory/?q=rust 27 programs https://sourceforge.net/directory/?q=pascal 2268
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   by benibela 7y ago

   I had that problem with XML. Now I do not use XML myself, but I wrote a tool to load it and convert some values to boolean. I wrote it to read true/false, but then there were some test cases that failed. Turns out, the schema also allo
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   by benibela 7y ago

   People get a fever, and think it is covid, but it is actually lassa
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   by benibela 7y ago

   The East India Company probably also had a big Navy
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   by benibela 7y ago

   Lassa fever also occurs often in Nigeria
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   by benibela 7y ago

   Original mirror? But the BQ has 2019_10 while the pushshift has only up 2019-09
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   by benibela 7y ago

   You can download them from google: https://bigquery.cloud.google.com/table/fh-bigquery:reddit_c... Run an SQL over all comments of everyone edit: so only comments till october. 6 months old, that is when they become ar
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    by benibela 7y ago

    If the editor would support elastic tabstops you could do: <TAB><TAB>function name(<TAB>arg1, arg2, <TAB><TAB><TAB>arg3)
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    by benibela 7y ago

    >So separate wildcards and literals, each prepended by length? That would be far, far less readable than using escape sequences. Wildcards do not need a prefix, when they always are a single character. Here is a ordinary regex for a path
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    by benibela 7y ago

    The range library is really controversal
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    by benibela 7y ago

    I thought it was about random access memories
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    by benibela 7y ago

    >How would it allow you to write a regex that matches a dot? You could write 1:. >Or text in an XML element that includes an ampersand? The point is to not use XML, because it has escape characters. You could replace it with
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    by benibela 7y ago

    Escape characters are one of the most stupid things in the computing world. The formats could be so simple: first the length of the data, then raw data of that length
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    by benibela 7y ago

    Many gravity experiments can be done at home For example, drop an apple on their head
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    by benibela 7y ago

    Some parts are extremly ugly, and mostly pointless. namespaces, doctype, processing instructions. This is well-formed xml and good way to confuse people: <?xml version="1.0"?><!DOCTYPE abc[<?abc >]]<abc&gt
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    by benibela 7y ago

    But you can do <httpd baseDir="/opt/server"/> and it is shorter than the JSON.
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    by benibela 7y ago

    I wonder if there were ever uptime issues caused by heap fragmentation.
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    by benibela 7y ago

    But that is how IDEs used to be. vim, kdevelop, qt creator, texstudio, ...
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    by benibela 7y ago

    Computer engineers should start using a regexp like syntax: 1 virus 2 virus+ 3 virus+ ... Then the engineer+ can also distinguish between multiple virus+ and no virus*.
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    by benibela 7y ago

    Here is a case where it traveled 4.5m and lingered for 30 minutes: https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3074351/coro...
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    by benibela 7y ago

    I am on vacation and am having a great time. I have been cooped up in my apartment for three weeks and only left it four times to go to the grocery store. Finally I have some time to spend on my oss projects
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    by benibela 7y ago

    I still write almost all my code in Pascal It compiles very fast to native code, has properties with implicit setters/getters, null-safe strings with mutability xor aliasing, function and operator overloading. It is really amazing
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    by benibela 7y ago

    In Germany there is another explanation. Gold is tax-free, silver is taxed.
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    by benibela 7y ago

    4chan has investigated that and discovered that John Titor is actually Donald Trump who choose the alias after his uncle John Trump - an MIT professor - who obtained the blueprints of the time machine from Nikola Tesla: https://i
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    by benibela 7y ago

    But if the time machine itself travels through time, an unbounded number of people could use the same machine at the same time
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    by benibela 7y ago

    That reminds me of the witches in His Dark Materials
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    by benibela 7y ago

    Cool, perhaps I use it for my app page. But enabling Javascript messed the fonts up, went from https://imgur.com/6H3mIPl to https://imgur.com/3XNnjBr
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    by benibela 7y ago

    FreePascal uses SJLJ, at least on Linux