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I help people write code, when I'm not needing help myself. I use Firefox.

I'm a moderator on Retrocomputing Stack Exchange. (It turns out that moderatoring is hard.)

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Why does a large for loop with 10 billion iterations take a much longer time to run in Python than in C?
Sep 29, 2018
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Get the list of Git branches for a repository hosted on GitHub
Sep 24, 2015
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Highlight text based on index in textContent
Apr 8, 2018
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Lazy module variables--can it be done?
Aug 25, 2018
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a bytes-like object is required, not '_io.BufferedReader'
Dec 27, 2018
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Looping over structure elements using pointers in C
Oct 17, 2018
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Python for loop from index 1 or ignoring the first one
Jan 25, 2019
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Why does this function not work in python 2.7 but work fine in python 3.6?
Apr 8, 2018
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the main.py file has become unreadable
Jul 11, 2022
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'Unable to import' errors for anaconda environment in VS Code
Dec 8, 2018
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Creating the Windows 10 calendar in VBA Excel: can we allow broad and useful "canonical" self-answers?
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How to handle (old) unanswered questions about an API that no longer exists
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Feedback on the blog post: Is this the actual mission and goal of Stack Overflow now?
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