jamesgill

That same year, it paid out roughly $800B in claims.

TL;DR: there's no violin tiny enough for me to play for the life insurance industry's 'woes'.

I also used GeoPublish, because Commodore! It was fantastic on the C64.

I can't tell you how much K-12 teachers generally want less tech in classrooms, not more. This benign little AI helper is just a trojan horse for another expensive line item for already strapped schools, and another distraction from the real challenges students face.

Jimi Hendrix never learned to read music. He did not know how to 'construct a chord'. He had no music theory training. He just made music, and learned what he needed along the way to make the music he wanted. He did this from scratch in less than 12 years (ages 15 to 27).

TL;DR: computer science and 'building things' are two different things. Let your urge to build things and your interests guide what and how you learn, not academic traditions.

TL;DR: We always have a choice. And as we often do, we're choosing capitalism.

Based only my own experience in large enterprises, the usual process is to EOL new laptops after about three years, regardless of condition. There's a whole sandwich of business and financial agreements built around this, so this 'fine-grained data' doesn't seem very useful (or necessary).

If HP really wanted to make an environmental impact, why not start an HP recycling/refurbishment program?

So--I wouldn't advise developers/writers looking to improve documentation to 'become better writers', I'd advise them to focus first on the other other skills, because without them 'good writing' in documentation is worthless. Put another way, the ultimate measure of good documentation is: how well it helps the user accomplish their 'jobs to be done'.

Valar Ventures.

Mithril Capital.

Lembas LLC.

It’s remarkable to me how someone like Thiel could be such a fan of Lord of the Rings, with its central themes of the corrupting influence of unchecked power and good triumphing over evil and evil’s will to control and dominate—then decide to become Gollum.

Forget 'being best at using'; has the tool worked for you at all? In this case, the answer is no. So why would I buy it, then?

But it's most common for medical skills training, and very unusual to bring them in at this rank. Even MDs typically come in around O-3 (Captain/equivalent).

I know how to do some basic operations with it. It really is a feat of engineering and design, and I seriously suggest trying one out.

As Obi Wan might say: it was an elegant weapon, from a more civilized age.

Yes, that's how John Gruber defines it. But like every creation you share with others, it can evolve. If popular, it will evolve. People create their own versions and uses and intentions with it.

I've used markdown for 12 years or so, for two reasons:

1. As a way to write plain text but still get visual layout cues without using a proprietary format/tool (e.g., Word).

2. Have options for later conversion to other formats/outputs (for Gruber, HTML.)

So for me, writing markdown on my Apple device means that instead of using Apple's proprietary format, I have another place to write plain text markdown and use/share it elsewhere (which I often do).

And of course, markdowntools (multiple conversion tools): https://www.markdowntools.com/