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> In many ways... Can you list some?

> The bit in Infinite Jest written in (attempted) African American vernacular is truly awful, though. Peck is clearly right about that. On this topic I certainly agreed with him. I…

Funny, I found this book over a decade after it was published, having been exposed to almost none of this "hype" whatsoever---and I still liked it. I don't buy his thesis that its …

> 2. Always work (note, write) from your own interest, never from what you think you should be noting, or writing. Trust your own interest. I have a strong interest, at the moment,…

> The computer revolution was enabled, in large part, by a single invention: the transistor. Before transistors, we were stuck with failure-prone vacuum tubes. Yet vacuum tubes kin…

Why can't Tesla divorce their interest in producing electric vehicles from their agenda in producing autonomous ones? It seems there is so much call for the former and so little fo…

> Unlike writing, speech doesn’t require multiple drafts before it “works.” Uncertainty, anxiety, dread, and mental fatigue all attend writing; talking, on the other hand, is easy,…

$11,000 for 12 weeks; promise of a booming industry; no experience required; etc. Are coding bootcamps worth it? Why or why not?

Computers today utilize various metaphors. Terms like like "files," "folders," and "desktop" refer to known objects in the material world, and actions like "sleep" and "hibernate" …

What prevented Plan 9 from Bell Labs from becoming a widely-used operating system? Does it have a major flaw?

Leveraging a skillset unconventional to this forum, I can contribute concise, accurate, and logical writing to almost any component of any project, though preferably one that addre…

If you do, does that mean there's a cap on how quickly you can read? If you don't, what do you do instead? And how do you retain information? What (if anything) do you think is lef…

What do you like about them?

What does this mean? And how would you transliterate it?