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   FreeBASIC 1.10.0 has been released(freebasic.net)

   2 points by ziotom78 3y ago|1 comments
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   by ziotom78 3y ago

   It's interesting to read the discussion about Sixel support in Kitty [1], where the pros and cons of Sixel are considered in relationship with Kitty. In particular, I find this comment [2] by the maintainer of libsixel particularly int
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   by ziotom78 3y ago

   I have the same feelings as you: I stick to Python for tasks that aren't worthy of a long compilation because the execution time would be small, but I always use Julia for computation-intensive tasks. However, because of this, when som
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   by ziotom78 3y ago

   > I wish the article would also mention Nim, a Python-like language that compiles to native, and compare it to Mojo. I would not say that Nim is “a Python-like language”. The only significant similarity is in the usage of indentation ins
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   by ziotom78 4y ago

   For code, I use JetBrains IDEs (CLion, IntelliJ IDEA, PyCharm, Rider). They are incomparably better than any editor on Earth. To edit large text files, I use Vim, as it is one of the fastest editors I've ever tried. For anything else,
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   by ziotom78 4y ago

   I did not follow the events closely, but it seems that one guy, not particularly involved in the development, took charge of the repo and the website and essentially locked it from all the core developers. The story is told here, very inter
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   by ziotom78 4y ago

   For my 9-year-old boy, I picked QB64 [1] and things are going very well. The experience is identical to old QBasic, but with a saner language that encourages to declare the type of variables. At the moment we are following [2], which seems
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   by ziotom78 4y ago

   The Pantheon is just an example, but many other instances can be found in Rome: the Church of Santa Maria degli Angeli, the Basilica of Saints Cosmas and Damian, etc. (These are just examples you find in Rome, there are plenty of other exam
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   by ziotom78 4y ago

   The Pantheon is a perfect example. It has survived for 2000 years because it was repurposed as a church.
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    by ziotom78 4y ago

    FFTW is written in C, but it used a FFT compiler written in OCaml to generate snippets of C code. [1] [1] https://www.fftw.org/fftw3_doc/Generating-your-own-code.html
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    by ziotom78 4y ago

    Sure, here is one of them: https://github.com/ziotom78/tnds-tomasi-notebooks/blob/maste... And here is the recording, made with asciinema: https://asciinema.org/a/544981
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    by ziotom78 4y ago

    I often create screen recordings for my classes, but it's very boring and time consuming. I'm a perfectionist, and if I mistype a command I prefer to re-record everything. Moreover, every time one of the tools used in the videos g
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    by ziotom78 4y ago

    Thanks for suggesting "vterm", I wasn't aware of its existence. I just installed it, it seems to work perfectly!
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    by ziotom78 4y ago

    > The border is heavily developed on one side and completely undeveloped on the other. .....and China needs space to grow. OMG, you're right, I saw this: https://goo.gl/maps/JMUwEHBixEgieHMb6 Zooming in the are
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    by ziotom78 4y ago

    I don't know what happened in the US, but both the Libyan and Syrian conflicts got a lot of press coverage in Italian media.
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    by ziotom78 4y ago

    I switched to mbsync plus notmuch-emacs a few months ago, after having been a loyal Thunderbird user for ~15 years. I had to change my workflow, but the new one is much better and I do not plan to go back. I have always failed to regularly
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    by ziotom78 4y ago

    I remember that in the first chapters of their Assembly Language Book, Peter Norton and John Socha used DEBUG to teach the principles of assembler and build a few simple programs. After this introduction, they moved to MASM and TASM for the
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    by ziotom78 4y ago

    How interesting! I know virtually nothing of GCs, but posts like this suggest that there is a huge amount of research behind something that looks do deceptively simple as calling a "free/delete" here and there. Kudos to whoev
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    by ziotom78 4y ago

    In the 2000s, I was running extensive sets of simulations and data reduction scripts for a scientific experiment, and I was heavy relying on scripts to run the programs, collect the results, and distribute them over several servers. At firs
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    by ziotom78 4y ago

    Wow, I never heard about Baobab. I've just installed it, and it looks awesome! To manage my servers I think I'll stick with ncdu, but for my laptop Baobab is going to be great. Thanks for the tip!
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    by ziotom78 4y ago

    I agree. At the moment I am studying a new language and am following one of the guides produced by Assimil [1]. Their method is exactly what you are suggesting, and I verified its effectiveness when I learned from scratch a new language in
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    by ziotom78 4y ago

    Lots of good entries, I'll add a few that haven't been mentioned yet: - ncdu, to find out which files and folders take up most of the disk space [1] - julia, because scientific programming was never so fun and fast [2] - midnight
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    by ziotom78 4y ago

    Kitty and KDE are two real gems!
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    by ziotom78 4y ago

    I love Espanso! https://espanso.org/
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    by ziotom78 4y ago

    Absolutely! I teach a CS class in my university and encourage my students to try them out. (It's a class where students are free to pick the language to use, but they usually end up using C++, C#, or Kotlin.) They seem to love the many
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    by ziotom78 4y ago

    Thanks a lot for mentioning Anki! I was not aware of its existence, but it's exactly what I needed for myself and my children!
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    by ziotom78 4y ago

    Julia mode for Emacs, Vim, and VSCode lets you to use LaTeX-like sequences: write \pm, press <TAB>, and you get ± Of course, this only works if your editor supports this and you are using a language similar to Julia. But there are two
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    by ziotom78 4y ago

    Using Unicode symbols wisely in mathematical code is a godsend. I regularly use Julia, which favors this style, and find that this feature improves the readability of code enormously.
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    by ziotom78 4y ago

    I would have loved to read that code!
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    by ziotom78 4y ago

    I am not a historian, but I reckon that in the Middle Ages, villages and towns were only built if a river was nearby. In 1000 A.C. the estimated world population was ~200–300 million people, so it was probably easier than today to settle pe