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You can click on the chart symbol next to the number
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Story of my life
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Almost all my pants became too small from washing. Perhaps they would not have when I paid attention to the symbols (or perhaps I became fat?)
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On the contrary, I had great reading speed as kid. Then I got astigmatism and my reading speed took a nose div
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Cross-platform is difficult The Windows API through Delphi was simple and fast 20 years ago. Although the exe would take 400 KB space, so for smaller tasks I would bypass Delphi's stuff and call the Windows functions directly, and crea
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TIpHtmlPanel in Lazarus – Electron Alternative Powered by Pascal(wiki.freepascal.org)
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Perhaps Tomb Raider 1 is a walking simulator? You do not kill many humans
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This old nerdass solution? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
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I should not have chosen Pascal as my primary programming language. It is not even mentioned when looking for uncommon language mentions
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Amazing Are we gonna see a lot of derived papers, where someone picks any old paper that uses a flow algorithm to solve task X and then presents the new result, we can improve the runtime of solving task X with the new flow algorithm?
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I wrote my own HTML parser in Pascal 15 years ago. Pascal is much faster than Python
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All the text formats are bad and verbose Everything is much more efficient with binary format like protobufs or flatbuffers. And if the format has a schema, the schema is the documentation, an d you do not need to have comment in the config
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I also thought writing my own format would be a bad idea So I choose a standardized configuration format: JSON Now I store my config in JSON, and wrote a JSON parser Unfortunately my JSON parser threw an exception when parsing floating poin
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If N is a 32-bit machine integer, then O(N^2) is actually O(1)
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This is one reason I use Pascal If the constructor throws an exception, the destructor is called immediately.
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Pascal was almost there It puts the reference counting in the type system. Like the default string type and arrays (=vectors) are reference counted. And for speed you could use manual memory management Any string literal is like an arc<s
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That reminds me of parapsychology They have performed lots of experiments where you do a random experiment and try to change the outcome with your mind.
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>professors are incredibly well paid in Germany and also enjoy high social status. Around 80k €/year as W2 professor base salary Post-tax 55k € Guess that might be considered incredibly well paid in Germany
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My experience is like this: • Go to the Epic Store • Collect the weekly free game • See that it needs a *40 GB* download • Go away for now, because I do not have so much free space • A few weeks later, after cleaning the disk, start the dow
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Too much pressure?
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Recently I went back in the office, and got sick within a week Then it took a month to recover
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That makes sense when the function has two arguments With more arguments the function call is hard to read countDominoTilings(4, 7), what is 4, what is 7? Some languages have named parameters. Then you can write countDominoTilings(width = 4
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I keep alternating between those positions And I use FreePascal. Its stdlib is vastly larger than the C++ stdlib, but also completely untested/unusable, because no one is using it. I wrote my own unicode handling functions for everythi
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I wanted to some simple web scraping and wrote around 100000 lines for an HTML parser and XPath interpreter
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by benibela 4y ago
I signed up on Twitter and before I could even post anything, I got something like "your account has been banned. Enter your phone number to unban it" It was especially infurating, because I did not have a smartphone, only a land
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The mainstream compilers are rather robust I use a niche language. It feels like I find a compiler bug there every month.
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>While in C++ world you'd use templates or in Rust you'd use traits, which are essentially zero cost, guaranteed. Templates create more code If the code becomes too large to fit in the cache, it becomes very slow
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I do not do scratching. But perhaps sleeping on the stomach is bad
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They might just have a wrong prescription initially When they spend more time on getting prescriptions and multiple opinions, they get better prescriptions.
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My mother did not want me to have glasses as kid, because glasses damage your eyes. It is a scam of the optometrists. They sell you glasses to damage your eyes, so they can sell you even more glasses later. So when I became nearsighted, I d

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