📚 Oh, the horror!
#Writers need social interaction? Who knew! 🙄 Virginia Woolf's iconic space and financial freedom for women to write is *so* passé now that we remember human contact is a thing. Next up: rediscovering fire! 🔥
https://newrepublic.com/article/206731/loneliness-room-one-virginia-woolf-hold-up #SocialInteraction #VirginiaWoolf #Creativity #RediscoveringFire #HackerNews #ngated
The Loneliness of A Room of One’s Own
Virginia Woolf put forward an enduring vision of women with the space and financial stability to write. But it’s also a sad vision—of isolated writers, cut off from peers or mentors.
🎉 BREAKING NEWS: Internet has rules! 🎉 Apparently,
#RFCs are like ancient scrolls from a time when the internet was the Wild West, and engineers spoke in tongues unknown to mere mortals. 📜🤓 Welcome to a world where tech bloggers rediscover fire. 🔥
https://ackreq.github.io/posts/what-are-rfcs/ #InternetRules #TechBloggers #RediscoveringFire #WildWest #HackerNews #ngated
What Are RFCs? The Forgotten Blueprints of the Internet
Think about it for a second: could the internet exist without standards and protocols? Of course not! Computers need shared rules and agreements to communicate with one another. Even human languages, like English, work much the same way. They function as a kind of communication protocol because we’ve all agreed on words and grammar that carry shared meaning. In both cases, whether among machines or people, communication depends on common understanding.
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