benibela

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   by benibela 4y ago

   Does it help to eat bilberries rather than the extract?
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   by benibela 4y ago

   Is the periphery not always blurry, because the glasses are only in front of the eye?
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   by benibela 4y ago

   Why would you ever do that? It makes your vision worse (because the astigmatism is really not corrected) and might trigger a myopia progression (because the glasses are too strong)
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   by benibela 4y ago

   I do not know I send them mails and do not get any answer
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   by benibela 4y ago

   That is why I am doing a post doc
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   by benibela 4y ago

   Or dd Put each byte where it belongs
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   by benibela 4y ago

   I use Lazarus But it is not modern. It is like Delphi was 20 years ago
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   by benibela 4y ago

   I wrote an app to track all my read books in a table: https://videlibri.de/ The main feature is to import the books from a library account. At that time I was getting all my books from a library, so I never had to add any
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   by benibela 4y ago

   I am doing ["foo", {} ]
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    by benibela 4y ago

    XML can be more efficient, since you do not have to surround the key with quotes. It saves two characters at the foo/cat each: <r name="foo" age="2"/> <r name="cat" age="6"&
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    by benibela 4y ago

    i have heard It correlates with AMC
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    by benibela 4y ago

    It is damn hard to find anything without a full text search
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    by benibela 4y ago

    I also made one and do not know anyone to follow But you could follow me, @benibela@mastodon.online
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    by benibela 4y ago

    Then COBOL would be the scripting language for the mainframe, and C# would be the scripting language for Windows
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    by benibela 4y ago

    Reminds me of this article on how to pack an XML DOM node into 8 bytes: https://blog.grijjy.com/2020/10/07/an-xml-dom-with-just-8-by... Each element node has 6 pointers, so a naive struct would need at least
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    by benibela 4y ago

    I used to make my projects open-source when I did not want to deal with them anymore. The plan was I am not going to change anything anymore, but the project is too useful to delete it, so someone else can make future updates. But I do not
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    by benibela 4y ago

    I have been hosting my own mails for years Although not directly. I got a webhoster, with my own domain, and the hoster also provides mail servers I never noticed any problems. Although often people do not respond to my mails.
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    by benibela 4y ago

    On causality There is this interpretation of Bayesian networks that the parents are the true causes of a node and to predict what happens if you change a variable you need to remove the edges from the parents to that variable from the netwo
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    by benibela 4y ago

    That is why I am doing a Post Doc
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    by benibela 4y ago

    Or you can go into academia to work on the really hard problems on a 5 figures salary.
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    by benibela 4y ago

    And chips are not even 3d, are they? At most there are memory chips with just a few layers
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    by benibela 4y ago

    Using Wine sounds perfect Delphi's VCL is tied to much to the Windows API to work without it. Even Lazarus implements a lot of Windows API like functions. E.g. you call one of these functions on Linux and it converts it to a correspond
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    by benibela 4y ago

    >To add insult to injury, in Delphi custom components were system-wide, not project scoped and required elaborate installation/registration to show up in the IDE. It is even worse in Lazarus To install a component, you have to recom
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    by benibela 4y ago

    Pascal programs are much easier to package, since the usual Pascal libraries are linked statically. You get a standalone binary, you can distribute. I have tried to submit some of my Pascal programs to the repositories, but nothing happens
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    by benibela 4y ago

    All of it is weird They always implement some language feature, but then put some weird, arbitrary restriction on it. It is twice as weird in FreePascal, because the developers cannot decide if they want to make their own language or be Del
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    by benibela 4y ago

    It is because Lazarus/FPC have no package manager to handle dependencies. It is crippling the ecosystem. If you want to write an oss ORM/SOA framework with HTTP, you cannot use a HTTP client library, because then people cannot com
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    by benibela 4y ago

    I wrote my own library for that: https://github.com/benibela/internettools On Windows it is a wrapper around wininet and on Linux around another library Synapse. The HTTP client is in the directory internet, the HTML&
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    by benibela 4y ago

    Facebook is the worst: https://imgur.com/jQj1EwE I do not have a facebook account
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    by benibela 4y ago

    I wanted a stable sort in one of my projects, so I implemented merge sort Then I had a larger input (like 100k elements) and wondered, why does it take a few minutes to print the output, when it calculated the output in a second? Well, i
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    by benibela 4y ago

    The best is a 4-way diff It you merge a file in two commits A and B, it would show version A, version B, the common ancestor, and the resulting merged file in four different views. xxdiff could do that.