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As much as I hate to say it, XCode is a really good C development environment that also works with C++. I've never had to mess with a makefile.
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I thought it was replaced. The developer posted on discus, but I found the comment on slashdot quoted. https://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=7543887&cid=499003... >> When the Amiga system originally went in it
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Three reasons, 1) Easier to line up barrel with target, 2) Easier to clear jams especially given the colder air temperature at altitude (up to 12k feet), 3) Easier to replace belt when out of ammo with a box of ammo behind the pilot.
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I haven't seen an OS/2 based interface on an ATM since 2007. I know that Kroger used OS/2 around the same time period, but I haven't been in a Kroger since 2011.
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I think it means per person working and then one providing childcare.
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I got a few second hand, vintage android and windows mobile devices with those pop out keyboards and getting used to the physical keyboard was more difficult than I remember. For instance everytime I pushed the keyboard with my thumb the de
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3y ago
Watchwomen by a process called nagging.
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3y ago
The author of the post seems like an evangelist for the Go programming language. > And, not to put too fine a point on it, but if you can code Python but not Go (or another decent programming language), you probably have no business writ
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That must have been a beefy 486, as I remember I had trouble getting a Pentium 100 Mhz Toshiba laptop to play mp3's on Linux kernel ver 2.4, and it could only do so from the bash shell without XWindows running. It could manage it on Wi
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I used to use sites like this back in the day. https://web.archive.org/web/20120121195938/http://gamificati... Unfortunately it turned in to a employee training website then went off line.
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Its impossible for me to downvote you, so I don't know where you got the idea that I was doing so. There is no button for me in my client window. In fact, I can't downvote anyone.
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3y ago
In the USA there are rules about what can't be published during everyday life. Most of the rules are unpublished, but all can result of loss of banking and career prospects as well as current job. Denying that exists defends censorship
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3y ago
NEdit was perfect when I was transitioning from Windows to Linux in the late 90s early 2000s. It was even in Slackware. Also, I miss the large clear, 16/256 color icons from the win 3.0 and 1990's unix era.
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3y ago
We own the internet? This is about Russia controlling their internet just like we still control the world's internet. I wasn't around for the USSR, so I'm not sure what reference is even supposed to be since it is really a st
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Every country's internet is restricted by their own government. Its no conspiracy theory that there are things you can't discuss without going to a secret prison in every country.
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Sounds like Google's translation team complaints. > Ensuring that the response is well-sourced and based on evidence, however, falls to thousands of outside contractors from companies including Appen Ltd. and Accenture Plc, who can
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Users can't run macros or create macros in the office webapps. Seems like a major step backwards in usability. > Although you can't create, run, or edit VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) macros in Excel for the web, you can o
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I don't think anyone plays MUDs with plain telnet. Just use a client with an automapper like tintin++
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Its an amazing write up, that has a few typos but it still incredibly detailed and informative.
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You know what is offline-tolerant? NNTP and email.
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DOS or more specifically MS-DOS was the platform on which the TUI, terminal user interface, applications ran. Because MS-DOS lacked universal drivers for printers and networking as well as being single tasking, it was up to vendors to provi
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Is the USA the only country which has 10x more positions than freshly graduated students? If so, then America is the only country in the world which adequately compensates software developers which would mean it is unusual for another count
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I think it is ironic that the notes for usage for Notion is in the embedded youtube video called 'the ultimate notion setup for 2023', which seems to me to be text explained in a video.
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Its a shame that OBD2 information would be shared with Google, but not the driver. I would like to see performance data on my car in real time that is more comprehensive than what is displayed on the dash. Also, restricting typing and voice
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The smalltalk interface is really one of the cleanest interfaces ever created. Too bad the software stack hasn't been put together in a complete desktop even like a simple one such as TempleOS
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It seems Apple isn't immune to the "rewrite entire codebase from scratch". I'm not saying it is a good thing or a bad thing, but it is a trope of software companies. https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000&#x
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If we lose that website, we will lose so much computer history and knowledge.
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Windows has a Compatibility Mode with is unmatched by any Operating System maker. I've got Windows 10 running Visual FoxPro 3.0 from 1995 and Visual Basic 5. Try that on macOS or any linux system with any application with a GUI from so
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The party in the House always threatens to not raise the debt ceiling if the POTUS is of a different party. It has been like this for decades.
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I assume the OP is leaving out the part about something called prompt engineering which has a bit of a learning curve. I'm going to have to dive in to it myself, as it seems like a bit of self-education is required before it can be sim
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