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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • I think predictive text predates even Android and smartphones (but not exactly), when we had to press a key 3 times until specific characters appeared; called T9 and just a dictionary. Having or not having a dictionary suggestion was the difference between life and death. Now the modern smartphone has way more compute power and resources, therefore they can analyze text in more depth. It’s just the logical next step to the plain and simple dictionary.






  • This is good to know. I usually have a mixed set of applications for stable and non stable, depending on how much I trust the devs for this. If the release of Gimp 3 wouldn’t be on the corner, I probably used it too.

    I’m on Linux and use Wayland (details not important if you are not familiar with it) and Gimp 3 still has a few issues regarding that. At least based on their own notes, so I will wait a few weeks (or months) longer, because I am not at a hurry at the moment. Can’t wait for this massive update and a huge step forward! Glad to hear it is already working well (I would assume that if they are close to release.)




  • I’m probably the only human using my own software. :D This is basically something like a script to run RetroArch. The idea is to make it easier to play games without the need to explicitly specifying the core name in the commandline. The core will be looked up from a user configuration file based on the file extension of the Rom file. This also makes it possible to run games from the graphical filemanager, if the file extension is associated with this program.

    I use this program since years now. This is just a maintenance update. It was developed for myself mainly and that’s why I did not bother to make it run on other platforms than Linux.












  • There is no single best way for every beginner. When I web search for “how to learn c programming”, then a lot of tutorials will appear. It would be good to know what does make them “bad resource” in your opinion, so one can give a better suggestion. Also it would be good to know what your end goal with C is; systems programming? cli programming? why is Python not enough? do you want work as a C programmer somewhere?

    Read a book about C, follow the examples and try to solve stuff alongside, play with the code. Take your time. And look out that its not too old, as the language and tools changed over time. Here is a suggestion: A complete and up to date open source book as downloadable PDF