benibela

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   by benibela 5y ago

   >High CPU usage I have that problem all the time in Firefox But probably I just opened too many tabs
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   by benibela 5y ago

   Kind of. A pointer to type A is: var B: ^A The parser knows it is a declaration because of the var, and it knows ^A is the type, because of the colon. That it is a caret does not really matter here
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   by benibela 5y ago

   As analogy one could go for updating to bigger and better. Like, when we were a small company we were delivering our stuff with metaphoric bicycles, because they are cheap and good for the environment. Then we updated to motorbikes for fast
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   by benibela 5y ago

   My last name has spaces in it I asked the admin at my department to give me a lastname@university.. address. But he refused. He said the spaces might break too many things. Even when I mentioned that would be a great stress test for the mai
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   by benibela 5y ago

   >By viable, I mean no funny business, no basing it on chrome, no crypto-anythings attached, no bundled pockets. Lynx does not have any of that If you encounter a website that does not work in Lynx, complain to the website admin
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   by benibela 5y ago

   Why would you want to save C? C is already everywhere. And so unsafe, the sooner it dies, the better What we should be saving is Pascal.
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   by benibela 5y ago

   Unfortunately, they seem to have the attitude: we have standard libraries. Any library you need is already bundled with the default install of FPC/Lazarus
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   by benibela 5y ago

   I know, but Lazarus does not support that...
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   by benibela 5y ago

   I have been doing my GUI programming in Pascal Lazarus was a great crossplatform GUI framework to have a native GUI on each platform. You put a button on a form window, and then it calls Win32 on Windows, Gtk on Gnome, Qt on KDE, ... to get
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    by benibela 5y ago

    Delphi added generics in 2009 So it had them roughly as long as Go existed
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    by benibela 5y ago

    20 years ago I was developing software for Windows 98. Recently I tried to run some of the programs on Linux and they still all ran fine unchanged. But the things I wrote for Linux need permanent updates because they break some function cha
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    by benibela 5y ago

    They are not tiny if you run it on a 800x600 screen
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    by benibela 5y ago

    There are 5 of those trillion dollar companies. Source: 8marketcap.com
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    by benibela 5y ago

    As academic, coding is my favorite part. I would not give that up
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    by benibela 5y ago

    School has been extremely negative for me, because I did not socialize with anyone there. School easily makes it into the top 10 of harmful things in my life
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    by benibela 5y ago

    Inline assembly? Is that not too unsafe for Rust?
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    by benibela 5y ago

    That reminds me that last month I got a notification on a bug I opened 14 years ago on the Lazarus project (a cross-platform GUI project) But my bug was not closed, they just asked if it is still a relevant issue...
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    by benibela 5y ago

    That reminds me of a old comment on Reddit. The poster wrote that he got assaulted by a football player, fell on the ground, and somehow hurt his head. Then he met a girl, they got married after two years and then had a child. Another two y
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    by benibela 5y ago

    I have specialized on Pascal, XPath, and causal (Bayesian) networks I do not know how to make a career out of that :/
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    by benibela 5y ago

    15 years ago, I wrote a program to track which books I have read and automatically synchronize the list it with various library accounts. Then I thought I would start a company selling the program. But that failed, because every library I
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    by benibela 5y ago

    >courses based around lectures that are literally someone standing at the front of a lecture theatre reading from a text book in a monotone for an hour Those are my favorite courses! Then I can stay at home and read the text book myself
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    by benibela 5y ago

    That does not really work for stack variables
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    by benibela 5y ago

    I get 14,823s for python3 and 4,667s for jo on my system. I also wrote my own tool, xidel [1]: time for i in $(seq 1 $count); do xidel -se '{"name": "JP", "object": {"fruit": "Orange&q
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    by benibela 5y ago

    Or now the "proof" of the abc conjecture with the inter-universal Teichmüller theory
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    by benibela 5y ago

    It is also because the notation with single symbols is too short In code someone would write "lightspeed" and that can be searched. In a paper, they write "c" and when you search for it you find thousands of unrelated th
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    by benibela 5y ago

    I only read the specification. It covers every there is in XQuery I searched around and found this article: https://www.gnu.org/software/qexo/XQ-Gen-XML.html And here is the source of my website using it: https:&
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    by benibela 5y ago

    And in codebases you can always search/grep for function names, so it easy to find the definition of everything. In math it is a strange symbol in a PDF and you cannot search for at all
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    by benibela 5y ago

    Or: if (SUCCEEDED(pfd->Advise(pfde, &dwCookie)) && SUCCEEDED(pfd->GetOptions(&dwFlags)) && SUCCEEDED(pfd->SetOptions(dwFlags | FOS_FORCEFILESYSTEM)) && SUCCEEDED(pfd->Set
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    by benibela 5y ago

    I use XQuery as static site generator. It is a w3c standard. You just write the HTML and then it replaces $variables with data, e.g.: <html><head> <title>{$title}</title> </head>&lt
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    by benibela 5y ago

    I really should clean up the black mold in my apartment