We could write long love letters to empanadas. We could wax poetic about their delicious dough, either fried or baked, and the delightfulness of taking that first bite only to find the yummiest filling — sometimes meaty, sometimes cheesy, sometimes neither. We could even tell you how we are not ashamed to admit that we eat them every single time we spot them on a menu.

The BASIC language has been the front door into programming for countless people. That holds true for us. After having been exposed to it in the early contacts with computers, most people have developed a love for programming that not only goes on today but also extends to the language itself. Contrary to what some may say, having learned BASIC has given to many the basis for a long-standing career writing computer software.

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An Australian guy once decided that using emulation to be able to run QuickBASIC/QBasic in modern systems was a drag and decided to change that, and thus QB64 was born (originally as QB32). What it does is translate BASIC code into C++, which then gets compiled into native binaries for Windows, Linux and macOS.

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QB64 not only allows for older programs written in BASIC to run smoothly in today's modern systems but it also allows for modern software development as it extends the language to use advanced features available in operating systems nowadays as well as OpenGL, which is the library used for rendering across different platforms.

Multi pens and mini pens are the curiosities of the pen world—how do you make a pen that holds five different inks inside, or a pen the size of a sticky note?

Many of these pens have the same secret: the D1 refill. This standard refill size is incredibly short and slim and is able to fit into a variety of small pens. Pens that use D1 refills are compatible with D1 refills from any brand, giving you a greater variety of colors and inks to choose from.

Ohio's wiretapping law is a "one-party consent" law. Ohio law makes it a crime to intercept or record any "wire, oral, or electronic communication" unless one party to the conversation consents. Ohio Rev. Code § 2933.52. Thus, if you operate in Ohio, you may record a conversation or phone call if you are a party to the conversation or you get permission from one party to the conversation in advance. That said, if you intend to record conversations involving people located in more than one state, you should play it safe and get the consent of all parties.

There’s no shortage of great games you could buy on Switch, but there are also a handful that are free. There was a time when a game being free-to-play marked it as subpar in some way. Now, free games can often be every bit as good as the paid ones and sometimes they aren’t even full of intrusive microtransactions. Here are a few of the ones worth checking out on the Nintendo Switch.

The problem was finally cracked in late July 2008 with a mixture of hydrogen peroxide, a small amount of an "Oxy" laundry booster as a catalyst and a UV lamp; we believed that this could do the job in hours instead of days. Proof of this concept was demonstrated on EAB by Tonyyeb from Hull, UK, Chiark from Leeds, UK and myself. The original test I did as proof of concept took two hours, as opposed to up to the five days it took for the original tests at CBM and a1k.org. We were on to something!!