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For many students, it is not so simple to grasp the concept of an abstract vector space. They could be taking linear algebra as college freshmen, without having seen any formal alg…

Listening to audiobooks is included in the survey (but they also mention that most people who listen to audiobooks also read print books; you are likely an outlier in that regard).…

Yes, agreed completely. You can get a lot (but not everything) from context. The text will be clearer if you look up unfamiliar terms (which they were allowed to do). But if you gl…

Since other commenters seem to think that the passage is just the first paragraph of chapter 1 (the fact of which suggests its own meta-commentary on the content of the article), i…

To understand the passage and what follows, it is actually important to know what "Lincoln's Inn Hall" is. And to be clear, it's not an "inn" in the standard modern usage of the te…

This was strange and disappointing thing to read. Why such a conspiratorial tone ("we are being lied to", "we have enemies", etc.)? Since this is written by Marc Andreessen, I did …

> What information does Applite track? > None. Absolutely love this part of the page---we need more software with this philosophy. Kudos.

For git config, the --show-origin flag is really useful for this, e.g. git config --show-origin --list