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New comment by dekdrop in "FTL: A new operating system for clouds"

dekdrop — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 16:47:57 +0000

written in rust, doesn't say written in rust on the site - i guess that phase is over

New comment by dekdrop in "Windows 95 released August 24, 1995"

dekdrop — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 17:51:24 +0000

Where can I get a copy orf Windows 95 nowadays?

New comment by dekdrop in "Black hole singularity is a surface not a point"

dekdrop — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 17:47:28 +0000

How does one descr blackhole to a non-physicist without losing much accuracy? I just it of a very-dense-object.

New comment by dekdrop in "Stop Making TUIs"

dekdrop — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 15:17:49 +0000

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.

New comment by dekdrop in "Initial focus for our partnership with Motorola is a regular non-folding device"

dekdrop — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 04:49:03 +0000

Not having big rounded corners would be nice and practical.

New comment by dekdrop in "Generic Methods in Go 1.27"

dekdrop — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 01:57:24 +0000

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.

New comment by dekdrop in "Mojo is now open source"

dekdrop — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 01:54:35 +0000

How is Mojo compared to Julia?

New comment by dekdrop in "Go 1.27"

dekdrop — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 09:12:22 +0000

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.

New comment by dekdrop in "Using sed to make indexes for books (1997)"

dekdrop — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 15:58:28 +0000

Python is obsolete too. It's only there for those not wanting to get performance and typiy

New comment by dekdrop in "Advertise in ChatGPT"

dekdrop — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 03:14:25 +0000

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?

New comment by dekdrop in "A Visual Catalog of Retro Macintosh Software"

dekdrop — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 05:31:47 +0000

It would be nice if each one had some links to it

New comment by dekdrop in "Faster binary search: from compiled code to mechanical sympathy"

dekdrop — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 17:25:59 +0000

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.

New comment by dekdrop in "Xonaly – Canada's Independent Search Engine"

dekdrop — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 06:25:35 +0000

Just tried marginalia-search.com, It's pretty awesome. Feels homemade, for human.

New comment by dekdrop in "Xonaly – Canada's Independent Search Engine"

dekdrop — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 06:22:21 +0000

I searched for René Descartes. I got results with Renewable in title a few.

New comment by dekdrop in "Do LLMs pass the mirror test?"

dekdrop — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 22:52:12 +0000

Why are we asking a language model for a mirror test? Just because it speak like human, have we forget what it is?

New comment by dekdrop in "Professor denounces mass AI fraud on an exam at Brown"

dekdrop — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 22:50:02 +0000

how do you make sure they are not using their mobile phone with llms while the exam? I have seen that happening.

New comment by dekdrop in "Regular expressions that work “everywhere”"

dekdrop — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 14:51:27 +0000

I want to share Russ Cox's webpage on regexp https://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/

I find it a good reading.

New comment by dekdrop in "John Carmack on the mistakes around Quake that ruined id software"

dekdrop — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 17:40:21 +0000

Is the domain twitter.com has problems? I am getting DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN.

New comment by dekdrop in "Japanese symbols that speak without words"

dekdrop — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 09:14:24 +0000

The way "New Driver" hits brain is different than a symbol. Wordings develops much more rational impression of it.

New comment by dekdrop in "Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive"

dekdrop — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 04:56:43 +0000

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.