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As an aside: wow that timeline makes me feel really old



How about the part where we're further away from Win7 in time, than Win7 was from WinXP? It'll be 10 years since Win7 RTM next year!


Yeah, I had the same reaction. This sort of stuff makes me _feel old_. But I'm not actually "old," so what gives?


That's the trap, and Seneca wrote some compelling stuff about recognizing the trap and avoiding it. It is aptly titled "On the Shortness of Life"...


Thanks for that. I had come across some of Seneca's writing before, while researching / reading about Stoicism, but hadn't come across this specific text, that I recall.




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