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by benibela 4y ago
That reminds me of this article: https://www.quantamagazine.org/puzzling-quantum-scenario-app... Catch the point where you have the most constructive interference and you might get more energy out than you put in
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by benibela 4y ago
I wrote my own webscraper: https://videlibri.de/xidel.html The main purpose was to submit HTML forms. You just say in which input fields something should be written and then it does the other things (i.e. download the page,
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by benibela 4y ago
I never made friends anywhere :/ (in person, i did get friend requests in internet games)
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by benibela 4y ago
I also started at 8 years old with QBASIC. But without childhood friend or Chernobyl So my files should all still be on that 386. But I do not know if it still runs I made a backup, on a ZIP disk. Do not know where that went
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by benibela 4y ago
An advantage of RC is that you can also use it to verify ownership. When the counter is 1, you can do anything with the object without affecting any other references. Like the object could be mutable for a counter=1, and copy-on-write other
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by benibela 4y ago
I rather have a registry than bunch of INI/JSON/XML files and each program bringing its own parser
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by benibela 4y ago
Or just a personal webpage with a guestbook.
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by benibela 4y ago
I, for one, would use neither CSS nor XPath for that, but my own selector language: <div class=article-section> <div></div> <div class=price>{.}</div> </div> It i
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by benibela 4y ago
It is like they have rediscovered XML with the custom elements
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by benibela 4y ago
I mostly hear about whales in video games
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by benibela 4y ago
FreePascal maintains their own optimizer. It is one of the few languages that still have their own optimizer rather than using LLVM. Although they would probably better of using LLVM. They introduce a new optimization every month, and I us
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by benibela 4y ago
>even Pascal and Forth. Even? Pascal is touted as being as fast as C
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by benibela 4y ago
The best UX has TortoiseHg Just click the Undo-Button: https://tortoisehg.readthedocs.io/en/latest/_images/commit.p...
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by benibela 4y ago
Or Delphi
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by benibela 4y ago
And family cuddles together
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by benibela 4y ago
I thought I could live in Germany and work remotely for an US company But that did not work out.
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by benibela 4y ago
Recently, I looked at some string functions in the Rust stdlib and noticed it is full of unsafe code. With comments like "this writes ascii only, so we do not utf-8 validation" hat validation is slowing down everything
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by benibela 4y ago
I have been working on a qt latex editor: TeXstudio Although that is years old and perhaps not impressive
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by benibela 4y ago
> I'm wondering with the (permanent?) switch to work from home if laptop sales will go down. They go up My employer bought me a laptop to work on it during covid.
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by benibela 4y ago
That reminds me of another project. Whatever you do, do not write the commit messages like that, and your are doing great: https://github.com/BeRo1985/pasvulkan/commits/master
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by benibela 4y ago
I did not know about those
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by benibela 4y ago
There is also Lazarus
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by benibela 4y ago
Once I started building a GUI wrapper that could either use SWT or AWT as backend (or perhaps Swing rather than AWT, i do not remember). I do not remember why. Perhaps I thought it will be more portable or performant. But I quickly abandone
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by benibela 4y ago
Another question: what are native controls on Linux? Qt on KDE? Gtk on Gnome? Gtk2, Gtk3, or Gtk4? Or make your own X11 widgets?
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by benibela 4y ago
That reminds me of old flash games This one had all kind of weird mechanics. You die if you touch the green spikes (living the gray corpse) and have to press the button in the middle to continue: https://youtu.be/IWdz-tZyJ
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by benibela 4y ago
Glibc 2.34 broke FreePascal. It calls some unversioned symbol for initialization that was removed
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by benibela 4y ago
It is different in other languages FreePascal has the same issue with the warning in divide2 and it also has a noreturn attribute. So can you be tempted to add the attribute and it get rids of the warning. But it is wrong. In FreePascal nor
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by benibela 4y ago
Simple solution: Make it impossible to write 「"null"」
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by benibela 4y ago
There is no proof that hash functions exist
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by benibela 4y ago
> Netbeans and Groovy I used that ten years ago I though they were dead by now

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