20 Matching Annotations
- Feb 2025
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anthology.lib.virginia.edu anthology.lib.virginia.edu
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the complete life, of Bartleby nothing of that sort can be done. I believe that no materials exist for a full and satisfactory biography of this man. It is an irreparable loss to literature.
The frame category introduced in the first sentence is of scriveners--the speakers knowsn many--who might have complete bios (but he won't bother us with them). The narrator will focus on the one whose bio is lost.
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- Jan 2024
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en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org
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en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org
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The autological word "eggcorn" is itself an eggcorn, derived from acorn.
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- Dec 2021
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In § 3, I explain that to have a life of its own, a card index must be provid-ed with self-referential closure.
In order to become a free-standing tool, the card index needed to have self-referential closure.
This may have been one of the necessary steps for the early ideas behind computers. In addition to the idea of a clockwork universe, the index card may have been a step towards early efforts at creating the modern computer.
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- Apr 2021
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english.stackexchange.com english.stackexchange.com
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That said, you couldn't know what you didn't know, but now you know.
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linusakesson.net linusakesson.net
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Opening "xterm" in "iSH" is like starting a new virtual terminal from a virtual terminal you are already in ("iSH").
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as you may have guessed, things get even more complicated when you start running pseudo terminals inside pseudo terminals, à la screen(1) or ssh(1).
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- Mar 2021
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en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org
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In fact categories can themselves be viewed as type theories of a certain kind
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en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org
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The autoepistemic logic is a formal logic for the representation and reasoning of knowledge about knowledge.
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en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.orgPyPy2
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Thus the recursive logo of PyPy is a snake swallowing itself since the RPython is translated by a Python interpreter.
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PyPy was conceived to be an implementation of Python written in a programming language that is similar to Python.
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store.steampowered.com store.steampowered.com
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Starting the Game is a game about a non-experienced gamer who is trying to download, crack and play a game.
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store.steampowered.com store.steampowered.com
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Meta gaming at its finest.
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Make It Indie! is an indie game about making an indie game.
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- Feb 2021
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www.forbes.com www.forbes.com
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’ve had Paula Rizzo’s book, Listful Thinking: Using Lists to be More Productive, Highly Successful and Less Stressed, on my to-read list (see what I did there?)
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en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org
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en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org
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english.stackexchange.com english.stackexchange.com
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a documentary is a meta movie, no question about it
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- Sep 2017
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Local file Local file
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IfwefocusonhowpeopleenactthemselvesassubjectsofpowerthroughtheInternet,itinvolvesinvestigatinghowpeopleuselanguagetodescribethemselvesandtheirrelationstoothersandhowlanguagesummonsthemasspeakingbeings.Toputitdifferently,itinvolvesinvestigatinghowpeopledothingswithwordsandwordswiththingstoenactthemselves.ItalsomeansaddressinghowpeopleunderstandthemselvesassubjectsofpowerwhenactingthroughtheInternet.
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- Jan 2017
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aeon.co aeon.co
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The ‘structuralist’ strand of literary theory tends to deploy close – sometimes microscopic – readings of a text to see how it functions, almost like a closed system. This is broadly known as a ‘formal’ mode of literary interpretation, in contrast to more historical or contextual ways of reading.
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