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dekdrop··on Start Doing Graph Theory
Please name PDF files of books something other than book.pdf

Pretty soon downloads folder starts to have book (n).pdf for 1..n

dekdrop··on Doory – Open-Source Canva
Does nobody care anymore?
dekdrop··on Why don't more developers “use the platform”?
The Platform doesn't provide much tooling to aid development, it remains in isolation
dekdrop··on FTL: A new operating system for clouds
written in rust, doesn't say written in rust on the site - i guess that phase is over
dekdrop··on Windows 95 released August 24, 1995
Where can I get a copy orf Windows 95 nowadays?
dekdrop··on Black hole singularity is a surface not a point
How does one descr blackhole to a non-physicist without losing much accuracy? I just it of a very-dense-object.
dekdrop··on Stop Making TUIs
TUIs are popular because Unix didn't have graphics. Plan9 had graphics but didn't catch on. Making us living in an emulated terminal device.
dekdrop··on Initial focus for our partnership with Motorola is a regular non-folding device
Not having big rounded corners would be nice and practical.
dekdrop··on Generic Methods in Go 1.27
TIL

> However, Go’s interface system works at runtime. The specific type of a value passed into an interface parameter is resolved while the program runs.

dekdrop··on Mojo is now open source
How is Mojo compared to Julia?
dekdrop··on Go 1.27
I once wrote him an email asking what font was used in the plan9 papers. He replied. It's Lucida Sans Unicode. He even provided a url to paper published by the maker of the font.
dekdrop··on Using sed to make indexes for books (1997)
Python is obsolete too. It's only there for those not wanting to get performance and typiy
dekdrop··on Advertise in ChatGPT
Software Engineers are the most evil group of people in the world. No other tech industry has this much of disregard to people. So many of today's problems are because of evil people in software. Power corrupt people or corrupt people seek power?
dekdrop··on A Visual Catalog of Retro Macintosh Software
It would be nice if each one had some links to it
dekdrop··on Faster binary search: from compiled code to mechanical sympathy
The point of python is to be a scripting language. Writing the main code in a systems languages and making it available to python is a very promising way of using it.
dekdrop··on Xonaly – Canada's Independent Search Engine
Just tried marginalia-search.com, It's pretty awesome. Feels homemade, for human.
dekdrop··on Xonaly – Canada's Independent Search Engine
I searched for René Descartes. I got results with Renewable in title a few.
dekdrop··on Do LLMs pass the mirror test?
Why are we asking a language model for a mirror test? Just because it speak like human, have we forget what it is?
dekdrop··on Professor denounces mass AI fraud on an exam at Brown
how do you make sure they are not using their mobile phone with llms while the exam? I have seen that happening.
dekdrop··on Regular expressions that work “everywhere”
I want to share Russ Cox's webpage on regexp https://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/

I find it a good reading.

dekdrop··on John Carmack on the mistakes around Quake that ruined id software
Is the domain twitter.com has problems? I am getting DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN.
dekdrop··on Japanese symbols that speak without words
The way "New Driver" hits brain is different than a symbol. Wordings develops much more rational impression of it.
dekdrop··on Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive
I was thinking of this too. It did all that what not only for a single line that is a simple thing even for someone new to web coding. That's to say the process matters more.
dekdrop··on Why AI hasn't replaced software engineers, and won't
I think it's people who were sloppy about programming are more interested in vive-coding. Because now they can make something without the mental rigour needed. Engineering as it should be is play of rigour. Those who value understanding system will continue the human aspect of it
dekdrop··on Branchless Quicksort faster than std:sort and pdqsort with C and C++ API
If it's branch predicting, why would if statement run slow? How come unnecessary memory write is fine?
dekdrop··on Bijou64: A variable-length integer encoding
How do I get to this page from the home page?
dekdrop··on Childhood Computing
Many of us were introduced to computers as a means to use office suite - MS office - in school. Computer usage was mostly surrounded by this and other application programs. Teaching on programming the computer was not there at all. In higher class, programming was introduced, but only the syntax.
dekdrop··on Google changes its search box
What is a search engine again? People used Google so much searching for How Tos. It has turned into an answering machine.
dekdrop··on The map that keeps Burning Man honest
what sort of tool they use?
dekdrop··on How do you organize files?
This seems overcomplicated
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