I read Hyperion in hs; and so much of what I read afterward (Chaucer, Boccaccio, Shakespeare, Keats, Eliot, Valéry) was influenced by Dan Simmons writing about it/quoting it. At this point, I doubt I could tell you where his influence on my taste & opinions on fiction begins or ends. Gone too soon.
It's not the sarcotesta, the butyric-acid filled dogshit smelling thing, it's the "seed" (it's not really a seed, morphologically as I understand it...), the sclerotesta that's edible.
There used to be a time in history when a system administrator had to know all this shit in order to keep their job. I guess nowadays devops just means dev as we furiously pump tokens into the AI Wurlitzer whenever we dont know how to do something and hope it doesnt gaslight us into deleting prod.
When using the the term 'OpenBoot' in the context of a Mac, ppl are going to think that you're talking about the Fcode-based PROM environment common to PPC macs of yore. I know I did...
Fair point — didn't know about the PPC Open Firmware connection. Name's sticking for now, but good to know people might confuse it. Appreciate the heads up.
Assuming you're asking in good faith, the parent could be referring to the 'market for lemons' in employment, where in lieu of being able to easily determine worker quality, employers start using second- or third-order- proxies for questions about, say, a candidate's likelihood of having a criminal record.
It's not just gotten to the point it can't be explained away. The best technical articles on the site have been the bio-horror shock material they pump out every month, and it's been that way for years.
When they started doing car reviews where "GM didn't pay for this car review, they just paid for a car review." everyone should've clued in.
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