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Cake day: May 28th, 2024

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  • The more technology pervades society the more pronounced this will get. The sheer helplessness of people when faced with problems that seem trivial to some is scary. Especially when you see people losing final theses or critical work related data because they never learned about backups.

    Add to that tech companies trying to hide the concept of a file system, and it seems like this is by design to sell more shit.




  • Academic writing can be used as a smoke screen to mask bullshit, or to express ideas concisely. But this can happen in all communication.

    Another important function is that communicating in this style shows you know “how thingsa re done”. It functions as an implicit screening for wierdos, but comes at the expense of keeping people wit hgood ideas but an unadapted writing style out of the field.