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by ziotom78 4y ago
The detailed list of features is here: https://wiki.freepascal.org/CudaText I did not know of this project, but it looks really good. It's nice to see projects developed in Lazarus!
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by ziotom78 4y ago
I often use Word97 and Excel97 through Wine on my Linux laptop. They are fast and snappy, and it's often more than enough for my needs.
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by ziotom78 4y ago
In the "Platform details" page [1] they say that GTK 3 is the default since WxWidgets 3.1.4, but if you want you can link against GTK 2 by calling `configure` with the flag `--with-gtk=2`. [1] https://docs.wxwidgets.org
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by ziotom78 4y ago
I have vivid memories of WxWidgets. I used it ~20 years ago to develop a program to browse a collection of artistic works (mainly sculptures and paintings) that was distributed on a CD (no internet at the time, this is the way knowledge was
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by ziotom78 4y ago
I agree. I am still using Mathematica 5 for Students, which I purchased when I was a student. Despite the fact that at the time I bought the version for Windows, it is worki g like a charm on my Linux laptop thanks to Wine. Nowadays my dail
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by ziotom78 4y ago
Yes, it did. The problem has literally disappeared. I believe that I can teach more interesting ways to catch and prevent errors than that stuff. I find that #ifdef/#define errors are boring and not interesting. The #ifdef/#defi
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by ziotom78 4y ago
I teach a C++ class, and I can assure you that one of the most frequent errors I see in students' codes is to copy-and-paste a header file into another and modify it instead of writing a new one from scratch (beats me why they think th
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by ziotom78 4y ago
Akregator (a KDE application)
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by ziotom78 4y ago
I had the very same experience, and ended up using the wikipage posted above. But I had to fix it because there were some outdated information. It's not that Lazarus lacks features, the problem is that the documentation is lacking and
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by ziotom78 5y ago
I am currently using KDE with the Reactionary theme [1], which gives my desktop a nice Windows95 look. I love it because the meaning of the buttons on the title bars of windows is very clear, and I know exactly which visual elements can be
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by ziotom78 5y ago
The Shift+Ctr+G feature is awesome, it lets you to pass the output of the last command through a pager. It is a lifesaver when you run a very long compilation job and at the end it tells you that it failed.
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by ziotom78 5y ago
Apart from what others have already written, there is little support for multimedia formats. So, if you want to embed some videos in a Powerpoint presentation, expect troubles…
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by ziotom78 5y ago
I did something similar by switching back to my old Lenovo after a poor experience with a HP computer. I tell here my story for those interested in cases like the one described in the article. Three years ago, I was feeling that my Lenovo T
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by ziotom78 5y ago
I second this. Better having a 2nd language that is common for everybody than have just one language and only one way to express thoughts. I speak Italian (my mother tongue), English, Romanian and a bit of German, and I really enjoy when I
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by ziotom78 5y ago
As other have suggested, this could be a great way to port some of Python's huge ecosystem to Crystal.
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by ziotom78 5y ago
This is true regardless of expansion, the important thing is that the space be infinite.
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by ziotom78 5y ago
As I said in another comment, I tried to use WezTerm a few days before switching back to Kitty for the poorer performance. I ran a few benchmarks and discovered if Kitty takes 1, Konsole takes 2 and WezTerm takes 2.5 (using the same fonts a
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by ziotom78 5y ago
As other said, sometimes you do not know that there is going to be a lot of output. In my case, I often save the time it takes to press Ctrl+C and add "tail" at the beginning of the previous command I see you posted the same comme
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by ziotom78 5y ago
Before you press Ctrl+C and type the correct command, your neighbour running Kitty has already got the last line of the output (which is often the only thing that one really needs). I switched to Kitty because I felt that the increased spee
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by ziotom78 5y ago
> It seems fast I was intrigued by WezTerm, but after a few tests I realized that it was ~3 times slower than Kitty (my current terminal of choice) in printing random stuff on the screen, so I decided to stick with the latter. It is a pi
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by ziotom78 5y ago
You make it look as if one should stay exactly on the Lagrangean point to appreciate its benefits. The reality is that spacecrafts fly on very large orbits around these points: the Planck spacecraft followed a 400,000 km-wide orbit [1] ar
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by ziotom78 5y ago
Same for me. I installed it and checked how long it would take to `echo` a million random strings. It was significantly slower than Kitty, so I stuck with the latter. Hope it improves, because I loved the approach!
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by ziotom78 5y ago
Wow, I will surely pass this to my students. Thanks for having written it!
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by ziotom78 5y ago
The ones I love the most are the First [1] (written when he was a student!…), the Fifth [2], the Seventh [3], and the Thirteenth [4]. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPQMdtAOXVw [2] https://www.youtube.com&#x
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by ziotom78 5y ago
However, Shostakovich managed to complete 15 symphonies [1] (and many of these are awesome!). [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitri_Shostakovich
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by ziotom78 5y ago
It's the same for me
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by ziotom78 5y ago
I started programming the C64, then moved to Turbo Pascal 3 for DOS, then Turbo Pascal 6. None of these environments provided syntax highlighting. Then came Borland Pascal 7, with syntax highlighting... And, boy, I was mesmerized! I really
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by ziotom78 5y ago
Well, there is some radioactive waste [1], but its decay time is far smaller and is thus far easier to handle. (Moreover, there is a larger choice of elements.) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusion_power#Radioactive
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by ziotom78 5y ago
Not the OP, but the first libraries that come to my mind are Qt and wxWidgets (for GUI programming).
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by ziotom78 5y ago
I love Ncdu, it's one of the first things I install in computers I need to manage remotely. Good to know that version 2 is underway. Thanks!

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