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I can use Ctrl-A, Ctrl-E, and Ctrl-U in text fields in the lynx browser, but not Ctrl-W. I just checked to see if Ctrl-F and Ctrl-B work, and found that the former kills one word f…

There was a recently a review of Apple Classical in The New Yorker [1], which compares it to a few other services, some also mentioned in this thread. Apparently, many fare better …

The article being reported on does not make this conclusion. The study authors are interested only in the time it takes for (human) users to complete CAPTCHAs, and did not examine …

For those situations which require neither grace nor style: http://www.textfiles.com/humor/101nos.txt

The texts in the sample set are too short for this to be meaningful. The human-authored TOEFL tests (which compare unfavorably with the eighth-grader essays) are ~100 words. The lo…

This looks wonderful -- thank you for posting it!

My introduction to roff and co. as a typesetting system was the 1997 edition of Dale Dougherty and Arnold Robbins's Sed & Awk . Many of the book's examples are geared toward automa…

This reminds me of an article in the Atlantic I liked [1], which argued that the real problem for American education is that it places too much emphasis on the mechanics of reading…

I love these too. Issues are also available for PDF download from the Internet Archive: * https://archive.org/details/personalcomputingmagazine * https://archive.org/details/byte-m…

I love hating on how bad the modern search experience is -- SEO spam has ruined everything. But I'm a little confused by the exact wording of this post. Google's Bard is in competi…

I'm a bit perplexed by the title. The article distinguishes between an early, anonymous, unregulated internet culture -- which the NFT club seems to resemble -- and contemporary in…

This is kind of funny because, long before DALL-E, you could Google: depressed office worker sitting on toilet, bright lighting site:shutterstock.com or: kangaroo riding a skateboa…

"Unveils" is somewhat misleading -- this project has had a web presence for a number of years already. They have recently distinguished the project proper from the "Bluesky communi…

I hate commuting, I don't much care for my coworkers, I'm fairly antisocial in general, and I love hanging out at home. Remote work seems to have solved a number of work-life balan…

I have no experience in data interpretation, so please be forgiving. But isn't it the case that: 60,000 white students * 0.04 = 2,400 4,000 Asian students * 0.25 = 1,000 These coho…

From the Onion brief: > At bottom, parody functions by catering to a reasonable reader -- one who can tell (even after being tricked at first) that the parody is not real. If most …

Not only is the content on these "flip shop" sites lazy and plagiarized, it seems to have a high signal-to-noise ratio. The answer to a simple question is buried under unnecessary …