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Still top of the list for me is Olin Shivers' 1994 acknowledgements to his scsh project: >Who should I thank? My so-called ``colleagues,'' who laugh at me behind my back, all the w…

>looks like many "BBC Four Classic Documentaries Collection" programs of the last century get the same treatment Fair enough, it may be that the warning is just a generic one slapp…

Seeing that this discussion is still going on (I'm impressed!) I shall provide an example which I believe fits the bill. Around the time you first asked the question I learnt that …

>Long, grammatically perfect comments that sound hollow and a bit lengthy It's worse than I thought. They've already managed to mimick the median HN user perfectly!

I was just working on a comment featuring the word oikophilic when I had to go to bed, so it's nice to see that one managed to get written anyway.

>for more detail: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu ... Oh, I see. We actually discussed Pound about four years ago - just a little back and forth about …

Woefully glib.

Not taking a side, but to understand the comment you are replying to, you would do well to look up the concept of countersignalling.

When was this? I noticed chatGPT becoming succinct almost to the point of being standoffish about a week or two ago. Probably exacerbated by my having some custom instructions to t…

>Graffitis Graffiti is already plural, or at least uncountable.

You should probably put some kind of contact details on your HN profile in case an interested party should happen across this post.

https://4chan.org/lit/catalog

>a planet where winter came in periods too long for the natives of the planet to remember Not Asimov's Nightfall ?

Don't think Alex Lee Moyer had a thing to do with the Red Pill.

Well, I sort of agree. A halting, too-strongly-pushed, stopping-at-the-end-of-every-line reading doesn't exactly let the lines sing. But there is an art to reciting iambic pentamet…

getHenriadByPlayName('1h4')

Indeed it should be spoken aloud (or at least 'aloud in your head'). But if it should be spoken as if it were prose, why do you think he took all the trouble to put it in to verse?…

There's quite a lot of work on this kind of thing; any edition of Shakespeare with good notes will alert you where a line resembles something 'proverbial'. One thing you notice is …

For what it's worth, he also uses 'whom' at the start of a sentence, correctly according to formal grammar but where most English speakers would intuitively use 'who'. That level o…

Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. - Alexander Pope.

Scheme feels really verbose to me. I get that it's 'minimal' and 'elegant' and everything, but then why are all the identifiers so long? I feel like I have to do a lot of typing to…

>It was missing the simple, elegant sexp syntax I dearly love In what sense does Janet not have sexp syntax? Seems plenty sexpy to me. Purists seem to say it's not a lisp because i…

I heard at least part of this version of the story a few years ago from someone who was in the British music industry at the time. I seem to recall getting the impression that he w…

The liberals want to strengthen explicit institutions (welfare, education, etc). The conservatives want to strengthen implicit institutions (trust, community).

Reading the Garden Party at the moment.