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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Python is obsolete too.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.