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When [Bill Joy](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Joy) created the vi text editor he used the [ADM-3A terminal](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADM-3A), which had the arrows on `hjkl` keys. Naturally he reused the same keys and the rest is history.
Here Is Why Vim Uses HJKL Keys as Arrow Keys
catonmat.net
One of my favorite systems papers ever is the [COST](https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/hotos15/hotos15-paper-mcsherry.pdf) paper, which examples a number of big-data platforms, and observes that many of them have the desirable property of scaling (near-)linearly with available hardware, but do so at the cost of being *ludicrously* less efficient than a tuned single-threaded implementation.
Efficiency trades off against resiliency
Posts on Made of Bugs
Because we spend our life indoors—like animals in a zoo—we are obsessed with the weather,” architect Rem Koolhaas once cynically quipped. We remain similarly obsessed with our bodies as the internet hypothetically diminishes their practical significance. As Grief notes, our corporeality is increasingly a liability, our bodies diminishing assets that require constant maintenance.
Margaritas at the Mall
Kneeling Bus
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