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wizzwizz4
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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?
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Get the list of Git branches for a repository hosted on GitHub
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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?
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a bytes-like object is required, not '_io.BufferedReader'
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the main.py file has become unreadable
Jul 11, 2022
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Python for loop from index 1 or ignoring the first one
Jan 25, 2019
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Looping over structure elements using pointers in C
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How do I exit GNU APL?
Dec 30, 2023
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'Unable to import' errors for anaconda environment in VS Code
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