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Scientists Solve 2,000-Year-Old Mystery of Incredibly Strong Roman Concrete and It Could Help Battle Climate Change Modern concrete, including its vital ingredient Portland cement, is a major source of greenhouse gas emissions. But it could all change with a new discovery. Our obsession with concrete accounts for around 5 percent of human-induced emissions. A third…

C isn’t a programming language anymore • The Register

C is often praised for being “close to the metal,” for being a “portable assembly language.”It was, once, but it hasn’t been since the 1970s; the underlying computational models of modern computers are nothing like the one that C represents, which was designed for a 1970s 16-bit minicomputer.

C is not just a programming language, it’s also an Interface Definition Language or IDL. IDLs are very important – as we quoted back in 1999, “the CORBA Interface Definition Language IDL is… ‘one of the most significant contributions in the history of computer science’.”

 

Why Vim is better than VSCode.

di’ —delete inside the ‘single quotes’. da” — delete around the “double quotes”. dit — delete inside the html tags. ci[ — change inside the [square brackets]. From: Why Vim is better than VSCode. After Github was bought by Microsoft it… | by Sean | Feb, 2022 | Medium Of course Sean is right. Master,…