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"Most believe themselves 'above average' at most things."

Yep, Bukowski's 1975 'My Old Man': https://genius.com/Charles-bukowski-my-old-man-annotated .

It’s more that the former book sets a very high bar I don’t think he clears in the attempt to make the topic more accessible.

I couldn't get through Pinker's book. He cites 'Clear and Simple as the Truth' as inspiration, but his acorn falls so far from the tree.

I think we have Hemingway to blame for this meme. I wonder why so very many authors feel the need to explicitly write these 'simple ode to simplicity' pieces — where each sentence …

> with the exception of New Hampshire, which does not have a law requiring people over age 18 to wear a seat belt In fairness, the state motto is 'Live free or die.'

And https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Here_is_one_hand .

Don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you got Til its gone

Bravo.

Thank you for writing this.

Thank you.

Sorry has enough decisions for children to discover that it’s not just luck, though. You certainly can play to lose if you want to, for example. Discovering that there is strategy …

Thanks for the response. It's valuable that they gave you detailed feedback. The post would be strengthened by enough specifics grounded in that actual feedback to have preempted m…

This reads as an extended justification for how the author could possibly have failed. He writes as though it must be as simple as 'just should have asked a question'. It's an odd …

Fuckin' Moloch.

BASIC = Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code (not Language).

A quick plug for LFE and its very simple premise: in mortal fear of Rails, I embraced the potential of Elixir (with 100% more Phoenix); I had a wonderful test case for macros (can'…

Assuming you eliminated sshd…

The version of this I first heard in school was: He knows not and knows not that he knows not is fool. Shun him. He who knows not and knows that he knows not is a student. Teach hi…

I found the answer: https://github.com/PaulBatchelor/Sporth/issues/23

Since you're here… This looks really cool. I installed, but running the demo produced no sound (but a pause). Any thoughts? I did seemingly install the dev branch of SoundPipe firs…

I got this: Poλλλote.

There’s help available, if not for you, for your children: https://books.google.com/books?id=R6E0AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA74&lpg=P...

Duly noted.

Maybe it is a circular list.