Python uses a short circuit technique

It turns out that Python uses a short circuit technique as soon as the final result is determined.

Delphi/Object Pascal is in 8th position on tiobe.com TOP10 list of programming languages for November 2025

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How to Stop The Annoying Update Prompts from NIK collection?

To stop update checks off from configuration file, XML, which is soon of all located here:
C:\ProgramData\DxO\Nik Collection\NikCollection.cfg
Find the following section:
<group name="Checkforupdate"> <key name="LastCheck" type="string" value="1634475377"/> </group>
add
<key name="IsEnabled" type="bool" value="0"/>
and never have the annoying message again.

Pygame 2.6.1 not installing on Python 3.14.0

Installing pygame (version 2.6.1) gives an error that metadata doesn’t work.
A wheel is not released for 3.14 yet. This is not a bug in CPython.
As a temporary measure I rolled back to the previous version Python 3.13.

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pygame-ce is a drop-in fork by most of the original development team already has a version for 3.14.

Windows 64bit Delphi 2007/2009 Debugger Fix / Workaround with "Assertion failure" error

This error is typical not only for 7, but also for subsequent Windows 64-bit. Delphi 2007 and 2009 are susceptible to the "Assertion failure" error.
If one run Delphi 2007 or Delphi 2009 on Windows 64bit and met the Assertion failure when hit F2 or exit out of the program, this strange error dialog occurs: bds.exe - bordbk105N.dll Assertion failure: "(!"SetThreadContext failed")" in ..\win32src\thread32.cpp at line ... Continue execution? If Press No or ESC key will close the whole IDE. Pressing Yes may prompt for the same dialog.

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There was an unofficial hotfix at CodeCentral - ID: 27521, RAD Studio 2007 Debugger Fix for Windows 7 that now is unavailable.

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Further is a temporary solution for this problem.
Using any hex editor, for example, mh-nexus, an open source version.
1. Close Delphi
2. Make a backup of the library bordbk105N.dll (version should be 105.11.1.12533) for Delphi 2007, bordbk120N.dll (version should be 120.903.17.15115) for Delphi 2009
For Delphi 2007
the location is "%ProgramFiles(x86)%\CodeGear\RAD Studio\5.0\bin\bordbk105N.dll",
for Delphi 2009
the location is "%ProgramFiles(x86)%\CodeGear\RAD Studio\6.0\bin\bordbk120N.dll"
3. Open the library file in hex editor
4. Look for hex string in the file
01 00 48 74 47 80 3d
There is only one(!) HEX 01 00 48 74 47 80 3D
5. Change it to
01 00 48 EB 47 80 3d
74 is replaced with EB
6. Save
7. Restart Delphi and the error message should be gone. That’s all. Now the debugger runs on Windows 64bit.

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Or try to find the in the internet the ready-to-use patcher Delphi_2007_2009_WOW64_Debugger_Fix.zip (Delphi_2007_2009_WOW64_Debugger_Fix.exe) who will do the same for you.

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My first note was «SetThreadContext failed» Delphi 2007/2009 Windows x64.
Here I made more detailed explanation.
An put a concise version of the article on Stackoverflow