"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning."
Stack Overflow appears to be a vast experiment to prove the truth of this statement.
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Was Macbeth considering murdering Duncan before Lady Macbeth encouraged him to? This is an excellent summary - better than my answer - but I don't think your points 7 & 8 hold much water.. 7 could well be a figure of speech, like someone saying "he plans to go tomorrow" and doesn't carry any implications. 8 always felt to me like a warning on what happens when someone violates a taboo: once broken, it becomes easier to do so again, and again. |
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answered | Was Macbeth considering murdering Duncan before Lady Macbeth encouraged him to? |
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awarded | Curious |
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How can I prove a case of covid for UK travel insurance? @Traveller Admiral. |
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How can I prove a case of covid for UK travel insurance? added 2 characters in body |
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asked | How can I prove a case of covid for UK travel insurance? |
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asked | Can I re-use a covering letter for two simultaneous internal applications? |
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awarded | Popular Question |
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awarded | Nice Question |
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accepted | Is there any deeper reason as to why Joyce chose the Latin name for Odysseus when he titled Ulysses? |
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Are these two novels referred to in The Overstory real, and if so, can anyone identify them? added 1 character in body |
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Are these two novels referred to in The Overstory real, and if so, can anyone identify them? @PeterShor I did wonder that, but the "crying for the blindness, even of fictional beings" suggested to me that it wasn't metaphorical. Hardly definitive though. |
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asked | Are these two novels referred to in The Overstory real, and if so, can anyone identify them? |
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awarded | Popular Question |
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awarded | Nice Question |
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Was "The Tombs of Atuan" inspired by a real archaeology site? @verbose possibly, but it seems very unlikely that it's the correct answer. It seems to have only the most tangential connection to what the OP is looking for: it's a different story, and it concerns a vanished civilization rather than a specific dig site. |
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accepted | Have there been any scholarly attempts and/or consensus as regards the missing lines of "The Ruin"? |
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Was "The Tombs of Atuan" inspired by a real archaeology site? It doesn't pertain to a particular site, unfortunately: “The last story I wrote… came from idly looking at the map and wondering what life was like on O back in the old days. It turns out to have some curious resemblances to life on Mycenae.” |