I suppose it depends n the authors you enjoy. Niven and Baxter have both produced excellent works in recent decades. For instance, "The Destroyer of Worlds" series is an excellent capstone on Known Space.

Baxter & Pratchett's "The Long Earth" anthology has quite a bit of wonder, but they are experience authors. Paolo Bacigalupi's newer, and there are some interesting ideas and nuggets of wonder in things like "The Windup Girl..

I am familiar with UNIX shell job control, and I was not stating that undo came first... only that your insinuation it was some ("modern") Windows-centric thing was in error.

However I will say, it hardly matters if there was an alternate shortcut assignment in some other context a few years beforehand. Particularly when the earlier form has been used by many fewer people in comparison.

^Z for undo predates Microsoft and Windows, harkening back to Apple's imitation of PARC's GUI in 1984.

Are we there yet?

Are we there yet?

Are we there yet??

Are we there yet?

Notepad supports word-wrap, it's just not the default.

Multimedia is definitely an issue, but so is text, hence the discussion of huge JavaScript frameworks, etc. The Wix example is 7 meg over the wire, and 21 meg uncompressed ("raw" in the article).

Text resources are usually sent gzip compressed, and unpacked by the client. The original screed covers this, but it's somewhat buried, and also seems to be overlooked in a lot of the discussion. I would expec in your example that transferred is just that, the compressed bits over the network, while"resources" is how large the data unpacks to.

Use we have sales tax rather than VAT, but the rate is well known. It is not difficult to do some basic arithmetic to calculate or estimate it.

What difference does it make when they have a monopoly anyhow?

No, "the banks" are not going to write even bigger loans. These are federally administered loans, not from private banks.

You are ignoring interest. Congress gets to set the interest of federal student loans and it's historically been much higher than the cost of money for the federal government.

If you don't mind a slightly mushy, I mean *tender* product, "eat meati"'s carne asada is pretty good; I have't tried their "checken". "eat meati" is compressed mycellium (mushroom "roots").

(As an aside, stylizing your multi-word brand really makes sentences difficult to parse)

This among apps using a revenue tracking service. Those making $0 are unlikely to be in that cohort.

Not to mention the desertification, aquifer depletion and massive amounts of soil erosion in many parts of the world. Those may not take hundreds of thousands of years to recover, but meters of sod in the Great Plains won't reform without twenty years of intensive corn planting. California's Central Valley also isn't simply going to spring back several meters in elevation either...