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1y ago
It's because you're using Windows Pro.
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1y ago
It's actually more like Logo, which is Lisp with square brackets instead of parens and fixed arity. Sassenrath wrote Amiga Logo before starting REBOL.
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1y ago
Why not install uBlock Origin so you will see no ads at all?
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1y ago
I have heard around 50x, which is about the same as between assembly and BASIC on 8-bit systems.
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1y ago
Did he not code at PayPal? Did he not write a computer game when he was a kid?
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1y ago
I understand the design choices and they're crap. Choosing a programming language shouldn't be a popularity contest.
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1y ago
My solar powered calculator will be fine.
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1y ago
You only need to bounds check once before a for loop starts, not every iteration.
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1y ago
Your argument is exactly why we ended up with the abominations of C and C++ instead of the safety of Pascal, Modula-2, Ada, Oberon, etc. Programmers at the time didn't realize how little impact safety features like bounds checking have
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1y ago
It takes a long time to build them. By the time they are built, the economics for them will be much worse than they already are relative to solar, wind, and hydro.
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1y ago
Politics isn't as bad as Texas in many places, states, and countries.
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1y ago
This is incorrect. CBC has broken stories that made the Liberal party look bad.
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1y ago
Many more didn't vote against it.
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1y ago
How many rough edges will C++ have in another 30 years?
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1y ago
I just don't connect those devices to any internet.
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1y ago
I would say Go is C dragged halfway towards Oberon. It's essentially the core group that created and used C admitting Wirth's work was better.
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1y ago
A lot of Canadians seem to think the CBC is overly biased but that the BBC is less biased, but the BBC is actually more biased than the CBC. A lot of Canadians also think the CBC is too expensive but it is less expensive than the BBC and pu
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1y ago
Do you think that will happen? Any idea how long?
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1y ago
Have you looked at the "YouTube-shorts block" add-on?
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1y ago
> and half of America didn't either. Too many didn't vote at all.
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1y ago
The internet's not dead. The web maybe.
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1y ago
It won't stop there. Your turn will come.
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1y ago
The C64's CPU wasn't slowed down much at all by the badlines, less than a few percent. I'm not sure how much the sprites slowed it. The Atari was faster but how much it was slowed by depended on the video mode. Higher res and
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1y ago
Was that before or including the extra hardware (RAM) to run it?
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2y ago
You're thinking of rare elements.
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2y ago
There is a pattern when you remove the versions few people used.
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2y ago
I wish Desqview supported higher text modes than 80x25.
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2y ago
The rest of the world needs to as well and their wills are strengthening.
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2y ago
Although Rattigan was only at Commodore for a year, his creation of the Amiga 500 and 2000 extended the life of Commodore by many years with sales of the Amiga 500 making up more than half of all Amigas sold.
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2y ago
Canada already has a customized tariff.
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