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Comment #48459589
Prices are not an issue for Switzerland, given that the tariff on pork from Germany, for example, is 347 CHF per 100 kg.
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Comment #48293546
Latin was the standard language of the Roman-Catholic Mass until the Second Vatican Council in the 1960s. The current form of the Mass in national languages was formalized in 1970.…
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Comment #48293406
Agreed! Thanks for the comments.
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Comment #48293089
But does it really matter what the details were? The most important thing is that the standard published in 1963 was 7-bit. I mentioned that the 1963 version did not include lowerc…
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Comment #48291951
In general, I agree with your conclusions. However, I found it interesting that this document made no mention of ASCII or other 7-bit character sets. Especially since the first ver…
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Comment #48291756
In this document [1] dated 1967-68, on page 8, IBM mention 8-bit character sets only: their EBCDIC and the "8-bit extension of the 7-bit code" proposed by ISO. Because eight rather…
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Comment #48264737
That's not the only reason. On-screen keyboards take up valuable screen space.
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Comment #48264467
IIRC PDP-11 was a 16 bit word machine with an 8-bit byte. Maybe you remember PDP-10 with 4x9=36 bit words?
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Comment #48204865
If you don't like JIT/JVM there's GraalVM Native Image. https://www.graalvm.org/latest/reference-manual/native-image... In the past you could use e.g. Excelsior JET.
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Comment #48198729
No, AFAIK the author is German and his nickname is stein (stone).
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Comment #48197903
No, the author isn't an "OpenBSD person".
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Comment #48176354
It's 4G just like the others: 16GB RAM (4GB+Up to 12GB Extended RAM)
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Comment #48172522
Does it boot from the card? Is there an installation guide available somewhere?
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Comment #48171300
What about registration plates? Do they make you feeling like a slave?
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Comment #48171260
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Comment #48168561
I am sure that they use MacBook Neo for development. /s
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Comment #48168347
How about running many tasks on the machine at the same time?
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Comment #48168320
How is "performance" defined? Does it take into account the amount of memory required in each case?
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Comment #48161766
Lines aren't too long. They look great on all my devices. Use ⌘ + + until you get the line length you like.
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Comment #48133211
Thanks!
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Comment #48132234
Any reference to the biggest issues with Go in your opinion, and what are you comparing it to?
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Comment #48131704
I get 429s all the time trying to read this site in lynx or any non-mainstream browser (w/o JS).
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Comment #48119559
Debian is using this upstream repository for nvi and UTF-8 is supported. https://repo.or.cz/nvi.git
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Comment #48119327
Those are not terminal shortcuts. They are program shortcuts. E.g. bash supports Emacs command line editing shortcuts using GNU Readline library. But the library (and bash) support…
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Comment #48119210
That's why it's so complicated, and has left and right parentheses commands. You start out with a clean concept and then sort of accrete guano. It lands on you and sticks and you c…