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I was interested in astronomy as a six-year-old, which led me to Greek myths, which led me to Greek poetry, all of that in translation, as well as Gene Wolfe’s Latro books as they …

Many of the things you mention, crossing out, circling, I do not think of as actively engaging with the material, which a quick skim of the underlying research pointed out in the T…

Those are called commonplace books.

People keep saying that Microsoft invested in Apple to defeat anti-trust measures. They did not. They lost the Video for Windows lawsuit (Apple v San Francisco Canyon Company, Micr…

I thought the use of the eta in ΣΗΜΙΟΙ ΔΙ to be later, like the late fifth century, at least in Athens, than the eighth century implied by the text. Before that, they would have be…

What got acquired?

_Pride and prejudice_ hits for me similar notes as those for fantasy and historical fiction, though of course it is commenting on contemporary issues with no magic (except the magi…

I think you mean romance? A romance used to be a Roman-style long narrative fictional work that described extraordinary deeds, soap opera plots. Novels were more concerned with rea…

Not with that attitude you won’t! But dip your toe in, _Pride and prejudice_ is pretty light and breezy while having some depth to it.

I do not know about TFA and the egg cooker, but I usually boil the water first so I can pull the eggs out at a specific time (6:30 to 7:00) so the yolk is gooey. When I put an egg …

This was part of Steve Baker’s (“Omniverous Hexapod”, sic ) extensions to a long-standing Usenet FAQ about graphics programming, put out by “Carniverous Hexapod” ( sic ). It’s at l…

In the 1990s Microsoft “invested” in Apple because Steve Jobs allowed them to save face by giving them the option to settle their part of Apple v San Francisco Canyon Co by calling…

Or manganese blue?

Aeneas is several generations removed from Rhea Silvia, as the founder of the ruling dynasty of Alba Longa whence Rhea Silvia emerged.

The author states elsewhere that the payments are for the use of their server, which can be reconfigured.

Is there a performance hit for f_fullfsync?

https://xkcd.com/927/ You know which one.

I did the same thing, used setq and set ' before I did :r and saw the “define” verbiage. > assumed to know the difference :m for the manual and it’s under Comparisons

An earlier Gen X reporting in to agree with this eloquently-written comment. I only want to add that my Silent parents never tried to sell me on the Baby Boomer dream retirement, h…

That was not Gen X saying that—we don’t say anything, like our Silent parents—we just sulk in our rooms playing grunge to relieve the overwhelming dread and to root out whatever ea…

I wonder whether TFA author never saw it again because the fifty-minute bookers wised up and started booking the extra ten minutes or whether the ten-minute stand-up pirates finall…

I remember that decision and am still indignant about it. Why should the government give private land to a different private party? If the government is going to take it for public…

Huh. It was grayed out for me as well, but I have no recollection of having had to look up moles, Avogadro, or even chemistry-related topics in Wikipedia for at least several month…

> Who decides Councils formed by the currently accredited schools decide. > what right The government started relying on these accrediting bodies with the GI Bill in 1952. They did…

You probably got auto-spellchecked, but it’s “charism,” without the a.