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811.
by benibela 7y ago
But there is still a function that panics. Java has solved memory safety. Now the task is to make sure that code that can panic will not compile
812.
by benibela 7y ago
Employees get a lot more benefits than self-employed. Health care insurance, sick days, vacations and pensions. I do not know about France, but in Germany, employees only pay half of their healthcare insurance fees. And only their wage is s
813.
by benibela 7y ago
And you can write sth.unwrap() in Rust, and then it panics when it is null. Kotlin solves it much better. sth?.do_something() ?: nothing_to_do
814.
by benibela 7y ago
I do not know, but I have another font problem https://i.imgur.com/VwMWcOm.png
815.
by benibela 7y ago
I had Delphi then
816.
by benibela 7y ago
I think it worked in 2K
817.
by benibela 7y ago
>That is, you’re just not that hungry. Or if you eliminate an entire meal (IF), you ”save” a ton of calories. Or you replace high calorie food with food that does not have much calories. Like lettuce salad, which has like 17kcal. Then yo
818.
by benibela 7y ago
What about software engineers?
819.
by benibela 7y ago
>I like to think of a silly extreme. If I drink a gallon of gasoline, I've technically consumed what, a billion calories? But I won't gain a single gram.[1] Why? There's no metabolic pathway to convert gasoline to ATP. 265
820.
by benibela 7y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liaN1lu5b_A
821.
by benibela 7y ago
They closely examined the cucumber in my bag
822.
by benibela 7y ago
On the other hand, having money makes me less productive, since I spend more time caring about the stock market. Like yesterday alone my long ETF lost 2000€ worth, and I bought a short ETF for balance, which went up 200€. Should have bought
823.
by benibela 7y ago
I failed the test three times in Germany. After the second time I switched school, and basically had to start from scratch. Probably ended up costing me 5000€ or close to 10000€. And since that was in 2009, with the perfect time to put eve
824.
by benibela 7y ago
Or you could buy a bike
825.
by benibela 7y ago
The syntax highlighting helps a lot > > for (size_t i = 0; i < bytes_read; i++) > buf[i] = xlate[to_uchar (buf[i])]; TIL, tr does not support utf8
826.
by benibela 7y ago
There are reports that you can get it a second time, and it is worse on the second time: https://www.theburningplatform.com/2020/02/15/hubei-doctors-...
827.
by benibela 7y ago
I thought you could not write parallel anything in Python because of the GIL
828.
by benibela 7y ago
You could try my Xidel, based on XPath and JSONiq ( http://www.videlibri.de/xidel.html ). It is more verbose for simple queries, but with named variables and functions, larger queries do not become complicated
829.
by benibela 7y ago
Some send email reminders and some do not. But I primarily wrote it because of a library that sends reminders. I borrowed books there, did not set a reminder myself, since they always send reminders, and then they did not send reminders. &q
830.
by benibela 7y ago
Kotlin has replaced Java for Android development This month was the 25th anniversary of Delphi, but I guess that is not relevant for the industry.
831.
by benibela 7y ago
>Perf is becoming more important than it had been My eyesight is becoming worse, but I read that as Perl
832.
by benibela 7y ago
My library app ( http://www.videlibri.de ) is failing since 2006 It reminds the users when they need to return books borrowed from public libraries to protect them from paying late fees. It is extremely useful for library users, b
833.
by benibela 7y ago
Search engines have stopped listing http sites? Since when? I do not have https for my site (unclear if sourcefoge allows https for custom domains)
834.
by benibela 7y ago
After growing up reading BOFH, I believe the admin always controls everything
835.
by benibela 7y ago
Something is very wrong in the US I think I paid around 30€ to buy a foam mattress in Germany
836.
by benibela 7y ago
Semi-related, here is a map of Japan: U+1F5FE It is the only country that has a map in unicode afaik (and HN does not support unicode?)
837.
by benibela 7y ago
Nobody refers to ISO Pascal anymore. It is either Delphi or FreePascal.
838.
by benibela 7y ago
But do they work and are maintained? I do not trust them. At first I used the fpc xml parser, but it stores everything as utf-16 internally, and once it crashed on me during the utf-8 <-> utf-16 conversion. I do not want to use utf-16
839.
by benibela 7y ago
Me, too. I blocked reddit in hosts, so now I am here
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by benibela 7y ago
I spend a lot of time with web automation Especially for public library catalogues. There the webpage shows when the borrowed books are due, and you need to check it every week, or pay late fees. And you cannot set a bookmark, since you nee

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