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by ptek 1mo ago
Make c5 great again <3
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by ptek 4mo ago
Enjoy paying for your yearly Adobe subscription as your shrink wrap software won’t work.
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by ptek 4mo ago
Ahhh Arstechnica, I wonder if the technical article is by Dan Goodin. (It is) I enjoyed his C Programming books for dummies series.
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by ptek 4mo ago
Internet streamers will need to know basic math unless they are clowns.
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by ptek 4mo ago
Depends on the sport. I don’t think the Olympic equestrian competitors would be dirt poor.
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by ptek 4mo ago
Yes it is cheaper and who will steal or rob a student of pencil and paper compared to a iPad also pencil and paper doesn’t require age verification.
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by ptek 4mo ago
it's easier for people to use slurs then to contribute to the source and make it better.
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by ptek 4mo ago
haha what a fun site :D. Two dance sections to the rave site, will you be adding a Psytrance section?
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by ptek 4mo ago
If only Amiga assembler books hit those type of numbers.
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by ptek 4mo ago
Are you thinking of getting in to NeXTSTEP 3.3/OpenStep 4.2?
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by ptek 4mo ago
Yes I have both copies, prefer the ANSI C second edition my self. I brought another second hand C programming book and when I was working through the exercises in the mid 2000s the GNU C compiler kept issuing warnings as the code used gets(
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by ptek 6mo ago
If you make 20 billion and the fine is 0.2 billion…. I don’t think they care about their users mental health.
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by ptek 6mo ago
Try switching to desktop mode
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by ptek 6mo ago
Www.neocities.org is waiting. It’s a small fun site to practice with :)
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by ptek 7mo ago
So does this mean bool true = 3 or should bool true = 5? This will bloat the code a bit.
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by ptek 8mo ago
Ahhh Devs:system-configuration or SYS:system-configuration at 232 bytes. I remember being 11 and trying to make my own compilation disks and trying to figure out what file kept the system prefs on my A500. Don’t forget to copy the RAM: hand
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by ptek 9mo ago
I thought you had to use your real name when posting on USENET back in the day before spoofing.
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by ptek 10mo ago
Was contracted to a New Zealand government department and all the Edge browsers had AdBlock installed by default. I guess the New Zealand government that I worked for is a terrorist organisation. The department that I worked for did take ot
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by ptek 11mo ago
AutoCAD R12 here I come
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by ptek 1y ago
Would have been good if the license doesn't allow training in commercial LLMs :/
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by ptek 1y ago
I wonder if Retro washing machines and refrigerators (non-IOT) will go up in price because of this?
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by ptek 1y ago
There were a lot of global crews during c64 days and a few crews on the Amiga. In New Zealand on the Amiga a lot of the warez and compilations had importros on them. So was a small coding scene here but not as big as Europe or during C64 da
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by ptek 1y ago
You are correct with fast followers: Google to Alta vista, Apple to Nokia.
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by ptek 1y ago
I’m still waiting for Patrick Rothfuss to finish his third book as well in the kingkiller chronicles.
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by ptek 1y ago
When you couldn’t afford a ps1 or your DOS pc was shit. https://16colo.rs/pack/fire-43/AVG-LARA.ANS
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by ptek 1y ago
Hmm people will go back to using lingerie catalogs or start using LLM prompts?
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by ptek 1y ago
Are you 18 or older? You don’t get that notification show up when you buy alcohol or cigarettes at a shop, would have been easier being a minor buying beer. The porn companies know what they are doing or they would create a adults robots.tx
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by ptek 1y ago
Yeah. Can’t watch king of the streets or some video game trailers.
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by ptek 1y ago
I would like to see a advertisement for “The C Programming Language - ANSI edition”. Yes I have a copy but would like to see it advertised on YouTube. Wish my copy was signed :/
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by ptek 1y ago
Former Australia scaffolder here: The bamboo scaffold is used to hold people mainly and to act as fall protection not support weights like steel scaffold (i.e They won't be storing I-Beams on it temporarily or shifting wheel barrows fu

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