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Goes to show you someone can get a PhD in math, do research at a "world class institution", not know what a middle click is, and still be a dick about your technical writing. Does wonders for y'alls imposter syndrome eh?

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Technically yes, but the vast majority of us have met him before. He, or someone like him, teaches Cal I to first-years (because he's gotta teach something beyond his fourth-year five-student moon-man seminar on his inscrutable research focus). Forgive him; he learned TeX before mouses had a scroll-wheel. I had to work with this prototypical fellow once, when I was already out of university; his abilities -- and inabilities -- were stupefying, in both senses of the word.

Just think, in 20 years, we'll be bemoaning the neural interface being unusable because it doesn't work just like computers did in 2005-2015ish and we don't get it and kids these days with their jargon like "middle think" being confusing.

Hell, it's already started with "the kids" being all-in on bizarre shit like using Discord for everything, and, well, anything about crypto, NFTs, unironically having Internet-capable dishwashers or, indeed, almost anything to do with mobile apps.

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