OCTAGRAM

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by OCTAGRAM 1mo ago
Developers should know that built-in stack is something like arena, aka dynamic region. And alloca() or VLA is using built-in stack as arena. If neither alloca() nor VLA is available, then additional arena can do the trick. Portable program
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by OCTAGRAM 1mo ago
That loosely resembles research about economic impact of adopting PC. Which was not as great as could be imagined. Increased competition sets prices lower, increased data flows are not compatible with manual labour. Like in running faster i
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by OCTAGRAM 1mo ago
It became a good tradition to release version of software with my favorite number in such a way everybody will hate it. Delphi 8, Windows 8
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by OCTAGRAM 1mo ago
Will you happily pay for Ada IDE? Another part of your proposal is already true. Ada has free compiler and libraries. Paid IDE is all that remains, that's how things work, right?
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by OCTAGRAM 1mo ago
One can legally use Community Edition until income hits some limit. Paid edition can be bought and just used without updates. > use .NET, which is $0 But tracing garbage collection needs 5x more available RAM than used RAM. Native conser
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by OCTAGRAM 1mo ago
Delphi.NET was so much central project that 8 only supported .NET. Nothing else was ever needed as it seemed. Delphi.NET was 8, 2005, 2006 and 2007, then dropped. It was hosted in common RAD IDE and language was close match. Delphi Prism wa
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by OCTAGRAM 1mo ago
Pascal was comparably clean, but Delphi library is quite messy. SysUtils is about local time, exceptions, floating number formatting and OS error handling. SyncObjs are about synchronization which is very good. But TThread resides in Classe
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by OCTAGRAM 1mo ago
Lazarus does not support BPL. Android and iOS support are under question. Free Pascal devs for many years did not look into Ada, and looked into C++ more, and that made Free Pascal ugly. Delphi did not look into Ada either, but they looked
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by OCTAGRAM 1mo ago
I recall I was using Dropbox on Windows 2003 and Mac OS X 10.4. I was student and actively writing Office documents, AutoCAD, NanoCAD, LabVIEW, plenty of cryptic formats. Eventually Dropbox stopped working on Mac OS X 10.4. And I was not st
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by OCTAGRAM 1mo ago
There are retrocommunity sites. DOS, OS/2 (eComStation, ArcaOS), Amiga (Apollo Vampire), Mavericks Forever. Amiga is quite alive community. If I am to write game, I consider this platform. Steam game will be lost in 100.000 games, and
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by OCTAGRAM 1mo ago
For many years GNAT Community Edition has used GPL, including its library. That greatly boosted Ada programming language domination over planet and is a good reference for everyone else to also choose GPL for everything if they struggle at
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by OCTAGRAM 1mo ago
What do you think about ClockworkPi uConsole Kit R-01, ClockworkPi DevTerm Kit R-01, OrangePi?
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by OCTAGRAM 1mo ago
Indeed, I excuse
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by OCTAGRAM 1mo ago
> The whole system runs on a low-cost development board (Xilinx Spartan-3 by Digilent, with 1 MB of static RAM) If somebody wants their FPGA work to be available, they better choose MiSTer FPGA from the beginning. Costlier, but way more
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by OCTAGRAM 1mo ago
https://zoom-platform.sh/
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by OCTAGRAM 1mo ago
Just go two routes at once
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by OCTAGRAM 1mo ago
Steam has some backup feature. I do backups of my games. Compressed to slow HDD dedicated to backups. Faster to install than downloading again from network. Don't know though how much will that help
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by OCTAGRAM 1mo ago
I have not seen good web apps like native apps on Mac OS X of period let's say up to Mavericks. Web apps often forced single rectangle. I can group my chats in iChat and Adium into different windows as I want, but WhatsApp and WeChat f
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by OCTAGRAM 2mo ago
Where have you seen Amiga in "all places" of ex-USSR? Amiga is quite unknown computer here. Hard to find anyone aware of Amiga at all. OS/2 and Classic Mac awareness is not that rare. Many people knowing the difference betwee
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by OCTAGRAM 2mo ago
That's something many did not have. 85% sales were Amiga 500 and not upgradeable. IIUC possible to put Motorola 68060, but AGA required full replacement. And it remained something unseen. Something too late to crave for after bankrupcy
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by OCTAGRAM 4mo ago
"There is only yes and all other answers"
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by OCTAGRAM 6mo ago
Tiles were comparably slow to draw. Windows 3.1 and maybe more recent Windows had a background option called "patterns". These are 8x8 patterns of black-over-something. Second color is customizable. It could be white, but also som
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by OCTAGRAM 6mo ago
When I could run Windows 3.1, I had no multimedia thing. I have found PC Speaker driver somewhere, and it could play event sounds like start-up, but could not play in ordinary player. Same WAV in player won't play because it is not &qu
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by OCTAGRAM 6mo ago
Also, windows are not multiple. Each draw.io wants to be big rectangle because it is web garbage. Each chat program, unlike what Psi and QIP were
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by OCTAGRAM 6mo ago
Did .NET manage to get rid of unsolicited tracing garbage collection?
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by OCTAGRAM 6mo ago
Better language = Ada?
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by OCTAGRAM 6mo ago
New Delphi software is welcome!
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by OCTAGRAM 6mo ago
Community Edition is free
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by OCTAGRAM 6mo ago
> unable to keep its own top tech talent supportive of their own government Government did much to turn them away. And with regards to Makh messanger. Patriotic tech talents are supposed to be interested in Elbrus 2000 PC and Aurora mobi
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by OCTAGRAM 6mo ago
I would say they are trying to block every public VPN, and if some VPN tried to hide behind CloudFlare's backs thinking that they took all CloudFlare sites as hostages, then whole CloudFlare is nuked, and hostages did not save VPN from

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