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by ethelward 6y ago
Then use a clear, simple, precise language; I think Java for instance, with the improvements in the last versions, could fit the bill. Personally, I'm happy that we live in a time where we have many different languages featuring meny d
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by ethelward 6y ago
> Saving the file does take about a minute or two, though. Last time I strace-ed vim, it did a ftruncate to 0 on the original file before writing the whole content back; so no suprise it's rather slow if it dumps 10GB on disk :)
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by ethelward 7y ago
> What do you miss in multicursor that macros give you? Not OP, but to take a recent example (although it was in Emacs, I'm pretty sure it would work in any advanced editor), I had a macro select the second half of the open file and
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by ethelward 7y ago
> With Javascript being the exception And Python. And Ruby. And C++. And Kotlin. And Swift.
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by ethelward 7y ago
You have examples for that?
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by ethelward 7y ago
IIRC, yes; it was the last version under GPLv2.
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by ethelward 7y ago
> Any plans on giving the annexed territories back? Sure, if the Germans give it back to [the original Prussians]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Prussians ), it would only be fair.
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by ethelward 7y ago
The fact that they performed the first powered flight is disputed ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ader_Éole ). However, it is certain that they carried out the first non-negligible, directed, flight.
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by ethelward 7y ago
Ruby and Node are, for the most part, not playing in the same field than Rust. I have absolutely no problem seeing them living along each others for decades.
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by ethelward 7y ago
Yeah, @jack is definitely comparable to Laval, Qisling, or Kaminski for the title of ‶most notorious Nazi collaborator of History″...
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by ethelward 7y ago
The US want ‶free″ markets, but with bonus if they are using dollars, have no problem taking bribes from US firms, respect US sanctions and give a few oh-so-subtle advantages to US firms there and there. Note that I don't blame them, a
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by ethelward 7y ago
Let's take it the other way around and assume it was a murder. > would he not arrange so it would be sent out in case of his death? Not being able to do that while in high-security confinment. > And what stops the victims of nami
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by ethelward 7y ago
As a matter of fact, in its originally intended domain (i.e. scientific computing), it actually never stopped being a major player.
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by ethelward 7y ago
They also numbered three out of nine PCUS general secretary.
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by ethelward 7y ago
They can be used by blackhats selling e.g. DDoD-netbots to prove the “quality of the merchandise”.
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by ethelward 7y ago
> A liberal non-commercial offering from Autodesk would at least help Granted, my 3D experience is limited to making some custom planes for Flight Simulator 10 years ago; but is that not what Gmax is/was?
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by ethelward 7y ago
> What cities haven’t radically changed in the last 100 years, with nearly everything being replaced with something better than they could have conceived of? 95% of European cities downtown?
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by ethelward 7y ago
I thought you could stuff some metadata aboce the org 100h directive, but my bad if it is not the case.
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by ethelward 7y ago
Emacs + evil-mode of course, the best of two worlds.
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by ethelward 7y ago
And Emacs (can work in console mode) offer alternatives for nearly everything you mentioned :) Spreadheets[0], presentation[1], files management[2], true colors. [0] https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/h
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by ethelward 7y ago
You can do more or less the same with e.g. objdump, but the root difference is that DOS COM binaries are very simple: basically a tiny header then the whole program in a big chunk. More modern formats (be it PE, ELF, Mach-o, ...) are far mo
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by ethelward 7y ago
No, in absolute numbers.
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by ethelward 7y ago
That's more of an architecture problem rather than an intrinsic characteristic of Java though. I'm not a fan of the language, but I think the latest versions added some nifty features that make working with the language not as ba
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by ethelward 7y ago
> I didn’t know that the package managers require you to use Linux’s LLVM. That’s a shame. They don't require you to use “Linux's LLVM” (which would not make any sense given that Linux and LLVM are two independent projects), th
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by ethelward 7y ago
AFAIK, you should use Stylus (opensource clone) instead of Stylish (history-stealing original), like mentioned in GP.
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by ethelward 7y ago
Performances issues will be hard to estimate, as you can not compare safari to the others on the same phone, which means that you will not be able to correct for hardware and software stacks influences.
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by ethelward 7y ago
That's not specialized software for medicine, it's a clipart library (like we had on additional CDs for Paint Artist and the others) slapped on top of a basic vector editor. It does not take anything from the quality of this produ
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by ethelward 7y ago
> I've noticed a weird kind of racism in some folks who talk about China: they simultaneously think they'll conquer the world and that they can't invent technology on their own. China is the new USSR :)
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by ethelward 7y ago
Zemskov, Krivosheev, Overmans, Glantz, Goldhagen.
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by ethelward 7y ago
The Soviets did not honor the Geneva convention, as they had not even signed it at the time. The Germans explicitely suspended its use in their armed forces for the Eastern Front – which is why millions of Soviet PoWs were left to die of st

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