1999, some books:

2001 A Space Odyssey
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Good Omens
It
Doom: Knee-Deep in the Dead
Neuromancer
Space Opera
Starcraft Campaign Editor : Prima's Official Strategy Guide
The Lord of the Rings
Y2K : It's Already Too Late

I assumed that's just called 'typing on a keyboard'.
When you hone a skill to a good level of proficiency you usually develop muscle memory that offloads the conscious effort from your brain, like knowing where to place your fingers on a violin, balance on a bicycle without training wheels, determine the doneness of your steak without a thermometer.
From my experience it just something that develops on its own, you don't have to 'learn' anything. With that said, I've worked with a guy who would did typing speed challenges on his downtime, seemed pretty silly to me because I never felt typing speed was ever a significant bottleneck.

How many times have you been in an elevator and thought 'I wish there was a guy pulling a lever for me here"?

Those responsible for sacking the people who have just been sacked, have been sacked.

So you're saying it's being misunderestimated?

I did as well, but I put the extra free day in the middle of the week.
It was much nicer to have that break and I was actually looking forward to find out what I missed.

What about side by side with a newfangled autocomplete?

I just decided to transition to an all-SSD NAS due to a bunch of considerations like portability, low power consumption, low noise, fast access speed, etc.
I just received my Terramaster F8 SSD a couple of days ago, and it's essentially an Intel-based computer with 8 M.2 slots in the size of a paperback book.
My understanding is some SATA 8TB SSDs were around $350 a couple of years ago, so hopefully prices will drop near those levels so I can grab a couple in the near future.

I use my home computer to occasionally play games but also for professional applications for 3D, video, and the like.
Most of that software is written to take advantage of CUDA, so while GPUs from AMD might have advantages like sharing system RAM with the CPU, or Intel's new GPUs might be competitively priced, I guess I'll have to stick with Nvidia for the foreseeable future.

DeepSikh.

Personally, I would have loved to have learned Python first. As far as I'm concerned, get me up and running as fast as possible, being able to do something useful and I'd be excited to expand on that on my own.

Back in high school the first language we learned was Pascal.
As soon as we learned basic loops and text printing I started figuring out how to add color to the text and making UIs for programs that solved problems outside of the class.

We only learned Assembly after we already knew how to implement elements of a CPU using logical gates, so the low level programming stuff made sense in the context of how it translated directly to the flow of bits.

And finally we were taught Delphi / VB6 so we could build a Windows GUI for our graduation projects.

So my perspective is, it's more important to have the immediate reward of being able to do something useful to motivate learning than strictly adhering to a bottom-up / top-down approach.

It's not even competent evil, he couldn't even keep track of a couple of fucking hobbits right under his nose.

I recently visited my broker's (IB) site and they're promoting a new service "Trade Your Predictions on Political, Economic, and Climate Events".
Sounds exactly like what Polymarket is doing, I wonder what the difference is, other than potentially the crypto.

I remember one time we were looking for a developer to join our team working on the software pipeline of our animation studio and HR's list of candidates included an engineer working on oil pipelines.

Escalator temporarily stairs - sorry for the convenience.