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by benibela 7y ago
That is why I use Pascal 20 years ago it was advertised as the safe C alternative.
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by benibela 7y ago
That is a plot point in Vernor Vinge's Deepness in the Sky
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by benibela 7y ago
I use this convention whenever I can I spent far too much time yesterday figuring out why nothing was being replaced, when I called replace on a string in Javascript
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by benibela 7y ago
No Java in the kernel!
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by benibela 7y ago
That is how strings work in Delphi/Pascal. All strings have a reference count. When you change a string, and the ref count is not one, it is copied before the change. If the ref count is one, it is not copied
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by benibela 7y ago
The scratchpad, too
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by benibela 7y ago
Command & Conquer had several Marauders
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by benibela 7y ago
Me too, hence I kept most of my money in a savings account during the last six years
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by benibela 7y ago
Not among land mammals: https://xkcd.com/1338/
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by benibela 7y ago
Recall reminds me of the 737 Max
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by benibela 7y ago
That is more a case of gui configuration Here is a real keyboard hacker: https://spritesmods.com/?art=rapidisnake
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by benibela 7y ago
For some reason, the new gimp version has a dark mode layout with an almost black, gray background But the file dialogs have black text. You can hardly read anything
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by benibela 7y ago
The optimizers are much stronger nowadays. They rewrite the program, so that the resulting assembly might have nothing to do with the code you wrote. Especially if undefined behavior is invalid. Decades ago you did not need to care about un
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by benibela 7y ago
I watch boring parts at 1.5x speed, especially speeches. Then you still get all plot information, but do not become bored Actually, now I have trouble listening to speeches or tutorials at normal speeds.
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by benibela 7y ago
Unfortunately no backreferences I use FLRE: https://github.com/BeRo1985/flre That is also an impressive project, with multiple subengines from which it chooses the fastest one. All written by one guy. Basically no doc
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by benibela 7y ago
Is cloud computing not just a rebranding of mainframes? Although cloud gaming could be the next big thing. Now people can play even if they cannot afford a gaming pc (I for one have not had a dedicated gpu for like 15 years)
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by benibela 7y ago
Far more people need eyeglasses now than a few decades ago. It is like a myopia epidemic. That implies that most people who need glasses now could see perfectly well without glasses, if they had grown up in a more natural lifestyle with mor
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by benibela 7y ago
The syntax of Rust with all the different kind of references looks far too complex, just to get a performance improvement. Garbage collectors provide memory safety without any special syntax. Or in Delphi all strings are reference counted.
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by benibela 7y ago
Nah, when people find out it is Pascal, they run away. Can't type begin and end, such words are just too long
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by benibela 7y ago
HF is also used to wash cars by people wearing no protection, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5779585/ E.g. "As a case example, one worker (case 1) splashed his left leg while transferring a
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by benibela 7y ago
There is Delphi and Lazarus as open-source clone of it Lazarus can use the Windows API on Windows, gtk/qt on Linux, and carbon/cocoa on Mac. There is also a custom drawn mode that draws the GUI directly rather than using platform
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by benibela 7y ago
And here it works fine in Firefox + Noscript However, the images are missing The kleinbottle website is better
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by benibela 7y ago
Good thing there are not many bed bugs in Germany and thrown away furniture
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by benibela 7y ago
No, in that case it does not enforce it The Java types become platform types
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by benibela 7y ago
The problem is that try catch is so verbose
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by benibela 7y ago
How about http://localhost http://::1 and http://0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1 ?
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by benibela 7y ago
And if you do not find a cheap bed, you can build your own bed I have built my bed frame from soda cans and wooden slats I found on the street
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by benibela 7y ago
By the way, what is the difference between IDEA and Android Studio? When you want to do Android and non-Android development, do you need both IDEs, or can one fully replace the other?
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by benibela 7y ago
I had to buy a new laptop to use Android Studio
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by benibela 7y ago
I was completely baffled when I noticed Ctrl+Q is the shortcut to open the documentation

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