I don't think he was really asking who the fuck Alice is

privilege of receiving an education in the city

As opposed to the countryside students who have to pay for the right to study?

<C-x> 3, that is. -.-

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I don't like multiple monitors. I can concentrate on only one at a time anyway. (I heard there's a species called 'females' that can do several things at one time, though. Perhaps they can use multiple monitors.)

I do use this screen a lot, however.

Not to mention <C-x> <C-3> mode on Emacs.

of 0.1-second ticks since the system was started up. Unfortunately, 0.1 seconds cannot be expressed accurately as a binary number, so when it's shoehorned into a 24-bit register

All they had to do is use integers, where a value of 1 represents 0.1 s.

Unfortunately, the processing time that humans are able to discern is divided by two, approximately every two years. So you will need the speed of faster processors -anyway- at one point in the future.

World's First Formally-Proven OS Kernel

Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.
--Donald Knuth

Not to mention it's multithreaded, ...

You must have one heck of an internet connection.