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by usaphp 11y ago
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- chadzawistowski 11y agoIt probably refers to the tokamak fusion reactor design https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokamak https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokamak
- yan 11y agoHow? Только != Тока
- bertiewhykovich 11y agoGiven that the tagline for the project is "Fusion Reactor for Rust," I'd guess that the project's name is designed to read to English speakers as "Tokamak" while maintaining a "Russian flavor." EDIT: Not being a Russian speaker, I completely misunderstood this comment -- I apologize for my blithe ignorance.
- stcredzero 11y agoRust is iron oxide. The project namers weren't thinking about astrophysics. If you fuse iron, you wind up with less energy than you had before.
- the8472 11y agoThe oxygen is perfectly fusible, at least if you're a star. Less so in foreseeable tokamak designs. Not to mention the iron hydroxide in rust.
- tetromino_ 11y ago"Тока" is a misspelling of "только" which you frequently encounter because in fast speech, that "ль" doesn't get pronounced. Sometimes, it's deliberate; the writer is going for the effect of transcribing colloquial speech - like in English, you might write "innit" instead of "isn't it" to render a casual spoken conversation. And sometimes, it's a sign of a illiteracy - like in English, when people write "should of" instead of "should have" because it sounds the same and they don't know any better.
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- yan 11y agoI agree it sounds similar, I was just pointing out that it's likely a reference to the plasma device and not a comment on Mac computers.
- drdaeman 11y agoNot really, unless you assume "тока" to be a phonetic simplification of "только" (which is acceptable as a colloquialism or if you're transcribing someone's slurred speech). Otherwise, it translates as toroidal chamber with magnetic coils (a magnetic plasma confinement device, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokamak https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokamak)