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Please name PDF files of books something other than book.pdf
Pretty soon downloads folder starts to have book (n).pdf for 1..n
Does nobody care anymore?
The Platform doesn't provide much tooling to aid development, it remains in isolation
written in rust, doesn't say written in rust on the site - i guess that phase is over
Where can I get a copy orf Windows 95 nowadays?
How does one descr blackhole to a non-physicist without losing much accuracy? I just it of a very-dense-object.
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.
Not having big rounded corners would be nice and practical.
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.
How is Mojo compared to Julia?
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.
Python is obsolete too. It's only there for those not wanting to get performance and typiy
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?
It would be nice if each one had some links to it
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.
Why are we asking a language model for a mirror test? Just because it speak like human, have we forget what it is?
how do you make sure they are not using their mobile phone with llms while the exam? I have seen that happening.
Is the domain twitter.com has problems? I am getting DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN.
The way "New Driver" hits brain is different than a symbol. Wordings develops much more rational impression of it.
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.
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
If it's branch predicting, why would if statement run slow? How come unnecessary memory write is fine?
How do I get to this page from the home page?
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.
What is a search engine again? People used Google so much searching for How Tos. It has turned into an answering machine.
what sort of tool they use?
This seems overcomplicated
how do you approach naming files and immediate folders?
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dekdrop on Thursday May 07, 2026 @03:24AM
from the self-post dept.
Hierarchy in file system was a great invention, popularized by Unix. Files in directory, directory in directory. Creating a tree. Files get designated place in the file system. People are using in well functioning manners, at least as I think they are doing, and I am unable to.I have spend countless minutes to think just how I would put certain files, what would be the name of the directory,...