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This is delightful writing: Previous studies have involved archaeologists practicing their butchery skills with stone tools, and those suggested that Paleolith
by Stratoscope 7y ago
This is delightful writing:
Previous studies have involved archaeologists practicing their butchery skills with stone tools, and those suggested that Paleolithic hunters would have had no need to haft their tools to get the job done. It now appears likely that the Neanderthals did not read that particular study.
And since the word "haft" may be unfamiliar (as it was to me):
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/haft https://www.dictionary.com/browse/haft
- jaclaz 7y ago>This is delightful writing: Indeed. JFYI, a great structural engineer I knew used to have a saying that can be roughly translated as "Thank goodness materials do not read construction theory books: walls and bridges, despite the ignorance of the engineers that calculated them, and of the people that built them, keep obstinately standing up, totally oblivious of their errors".
- kazinator 7y agoIn EE circles similar (well, kind of opposite) things are said along the lines that "unfortunately, electrons don't read schematics".