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I see you've never worked your way through a manuscript by Donizetti.

He should. His work has political and cultural significance, and only that: no literary value. I say that as someone who put too much time into reading Bloom County when I was youn…

That's generally agreed to be once so far, so maybe not the highest bar in resurrections? Even JR Ewing matches it.

I'm baffled by all the people saying this is good writing. This is self-indulgent, showoff writing by someone who cannot maintain a consistent voice. If you liked it, give the cred…

My immediate reaction is to doubt some of this: isn't it what you'd expect to read about someone who agrees to testify against a well-funded, well-connected defense contractor? It …

I'm old enough to have thought, "Hey, this Visual SourceSafe is a pretty great idea!"

Or a fundamental difference in billionaire tendencies, don't forget that possibility.

I love to see people doing things I've never even thought of that embrace history and culture, and that they take pride in doing. This is exemplary of the respectful attitude we ou…

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LEGOs makes sense; a LEGO is an indivisible entity, of which you can have a certain number. Calling the material simply LEGO makes it sound like an undifferentiated mass, like slud…

That sounds like a you problem, not a keyboard problem. A good mechanical keyboard should last better than that. Excessive force doesn't code faster.

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> Unless I want that effect, I should avoid that.

> You can make exactly the same case about tonal voice leading rules too. You really can't. They aren't laws of nature, but they are based on observation: "When I have two voices p…

James O'Keefe's minor infractions seem out of place on this list. It sounds to me like Forbes might be disappointed in him for other, more philosophical reasons.

Mark Twain, for all his qualities, was a humorist.

But if that ML tool is trained on modern video, depending on its capabilities it may subtly modernize aspects of the video in ways that lessen the "past is a foreign country" effec…

From the title: "Lisp with native code speed".

That's an amazing test, if what you want to evaluate is the candidate's immersion in the wellspring of Western culture (and some math). I'm struck by how little fluency the Greek t…

I wonder how much the actual average level of education has changed, though the topics may be different. Could those 4th-grade dropouts read and understand a newspaper, calculate h…

The fractious minority is here, yes, but also a large number of people like me who don't care about display quality, "desktop interaction semantics," or surface consistency at all,…

I think the final picture adequately expresses Cash's response to your suggestion.

After reading the article, I'm struck by a single thought: while that was imaginative and at points interesting, what did the writer actually say ? It was a little like the sticky …