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by jfk13 6y ago
Well... not a direct answer to your question, but I was prompted to post this as a result of seeing https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25235772 . An excerpt from the article there: > Tires have one engineering principle
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by jfk13 6y ago
Or maybe into vehicles. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/science-environment-54980602
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Students create device to capture car tyre microplastic debris(bbc.co.uk)
57 points by jfk13 6y ago|55 comments
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by jfk13 6y ago
I live in the UK. 2012: 19 2013: 28 2014: 61 2015: 27 2016: 41 2017: 64 2018: 22 2019: 2 2020: 0 There are alternatives. I'd rather use them.
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by jfk13 6y ago
I don't know if your wording here > there are rustlings of independent implementations was a deliberate choice or just fortuitous, but "rustlings" would be a fantastic term for embryonic new Rust implementations.
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by jfk13 6y ago
Use as appropriate, yes. But there are some writers who massively over-use it. Most such rules can sometimes be broken to good effect, but they offer a useful default. In many cases, rewriting so as to "follow the rules" will aid
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by jfk13 6y ago
Yes, it was something of a disappointment to me, too.
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by jfk13 6y ago
According to the Preface (see page v): > This compilation, however, has been made under the personal supervision of telegraphic experts of long experience, and it is claimed for it that the cypher words are from their telegraphic constru
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by jfk13 6y ago
On the other hand, this particular version is apparently the Sixth Edition of the book, which suggests it may have enjoyed at least some level of use.
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by jfk13 6y ago
On the topic of brevity vs. long-windedness, I'm surprised nobody seems to have mentioned the (in)famous: > I didn’t have time to write you a short letter, so I wrote you a long one. https://quoteinvestigator.com/201
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by jfk13 6y ago
Wouldn't it be simpler to just say something like: > Keep sentences brief; unnecessary filler obscures your point and bores the reader. "Brevity is the soul of wit."
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by jfk13 6y ago
Except that apparently he didn't actually send it, at least according to this account: http://www.historyworld.net/Articles/PlainTextArticles.asp?a...
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by jfk13 6y ago
The wikipedia article includes references from a couple of decades earlier, at least; e.g. > Nat. Geographic: May 1974. "Tanna (Island, New Hebrides, South Pacific Ocean) Awaits the Coming of John Frum (cargo cults of Melanesia sinc
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by jfk13 6y ago
And we could destroy the habitable world even more rapidly than we're doing. Sounds great.
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by jfk13 6y ago
And real users can keep running that old software on real similarly-old computers. I don't think the number of still-functional old Macs is so small that they're going to be impossible to find any time soon. I can understand being
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Buzzfeed to Buy Huffington Post(bbc.co.uk)
3 points by jfk13 6y ago|0 comments
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by jfk13 6y ago
> Does Firefox have any Rust component at all Yes, lots (and increasing). E.g.: https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/servo/component... https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/so
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by jfk13 6y ago
Is it really so unlikely? Firefox integrates all kinds of components from elsewhere; why shouldn't it continue adopting parts of Servo where appropriate?
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by jfk13 6y ago
If I had a short power cut in the night and it resulted in all the lights coming on, I'd be pretty unhappy.... I'd rather just sleep through it.
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by jfk13 6y ago
That rather depends where you're sourcing your chicken or turkey. The birds my local butcher can supply may not be as cheap as those at the supermarket, but they have a whole lot more flavour.
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by jfk13 6y ago
Yes! They're wonderful, and nowhere near as well-known as they deserve to be.
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by jfk13 6y ago
> Google has added to this world, not taken away from it There was a time when I would have agreed with this claim, but I'm not so sure these days.
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by jfk13 6y ago
> As far as I am aware, the US is the only country in the world with this requirement. Not quite: I believe Myanmar (and perhaps Eritrea) have similar requirements. I'm sure Americans feel right at home in that company....
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by jfk13 6y ago
Similar here: I've had a bottom-of-the-range Samsung laser for over 10 years, and it just keeps going (using cheap 3rd-party toner cartridges), despite periods of relatively heavy use for a "home" printer (hundreds of pages p
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by jfk13 6y ago
Although depending on the paper and ink involved, the quality and longevity of your inkjet-printed photographs may turn out to be disappointing.
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by jfk13 6y ago
Not such an attractive option this year.
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by jfk13 6y ago
> Statistics telling you there’s a bigger chance someone else will get hurt be damned Nobody believes the statistics are relevant to them . Statistics are about all those dumb other people; but I'm always the smart, responsible
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by jfk13 6y ago
No matter how sophisticated the modelling, how would you know whether it's accurate ? A model can be highly sophisticated, yet quite wrong.
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by jfk13 6y ago
Although not at present-day population levels.
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by jfk13 6y ago
"Being around" as a farmed animal may bear little relation to being around as a free, wild creature. Given a few generations, we tend to turn the animals we farm into a parody of the original creature. How well would the average b

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