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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Python is obsolete too.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.

New comment by dekdrop in "Why AI hasn't replaced software engineers, and won't"

dekdrop — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 10:41:32 +0000

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

New comment by dekdrop in "Branchless Quicksort faster than std:sort and pdqsort with C and C++ API"

dekdrop — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 02:14:29 +0000

If it's branch predicting, why would if statement run slow? How come unnecessary memory write is fine?

New comment by dekdrop in "Bijou64: A variable-length integer encoding"

dekdrop — Fri, 29 May 2026 23:04:39 +0000

How do I get to this page from the home page?

New comment by dekdrop in "Childhood Computing"

dekdrop — Mon, 25 May 2026 17:09:27 +0000

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.

New comment by dekdrop in "Google changes its search box"

dekdrop — Wed, 20 May 2026 09:27:38 +0000

What is a search engine again? People used Google so much searching for How Tos. It has turned into an answering machine.

New comment by dekdrop in "The map that keeps Burning Man honest"

dekdrop — Thu, 07 May 2026 15:13:40 +0000

what sort of tool they use?

New comment by dekdrop in "How do you organize files?"

dekdrop — Thu, 07 May 2026 09:22:38 +0000

This seems overcomplicated

New comment by dekdrop in "How do you organize files?"

dekdrop — Thu, 07 May 2026 09:21:56 +0000

how do you approach naming files and immediate folders?