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  1. Jul 2025
    1. that people use as Web addresses

      "Web address" is so awkward as a term. Better to just make it concrete, anyway, by providing a familiar example like "The URLs that appear in the address bar in a Web browser […]".

    2. <Bob> <is a> <person>. <Bob> <is a friend of> <Alice>. <Bob> <is born on> <the 4th of July 1990>. <Bob> <is interested in> <the Mona Lisa>. <the Mona Lisa> <was created by> <Leonardo da Vinci>. <the video 'La Joconde à Washington'> <is about> <the Mona Lisa>.

      The syntax highlighting here is very strange. It seems to follow the rule that the first atom inside a set of angle brackets is bold, and the subsequent atoms (if any) are not.

    3. the Mona Lisa is the subject of one and the object of two triples

      The natural way to phrase this would be "the subject of one triple and the object of two". (There should probably be a "both" thrown in there, too, to make the sentence structure even more predictable.)

  2. Aug 2024
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  4. Oct 2023
    1. returns [ 0, 0, 0, 1 ]

      We can afford to emphasize the TYPE family constants here by saying something like:

      Or, to put it another way, given a statement let stats = checker.getStats(), the following results are true:

      stats[LineChecker.TYPE_NONE] // evaluates to `1`
      stats[LineChecker.TYPE_CR]   // evaluates to `0`
      stats[LineChecker.TYPE_LF]   // evaluates to `0`
      stats[LineChecker.TYPE_CRLF] // evaluates to `1`
      
    2. In fact, this is the default for DOS-style text-processing utilities.

      Note that the example cited is "a single line of text". We should emphasize that this isn't what we mean when we say that this is the default for DOS-style text files. (Of course DOS supports multi-line text files. It's just that the last line will have no CRLF sequence.)

  5. May 2023
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  9. Jan 2022
    1. SolidWorks is typically used to design assemblies that work mechanically that are typically less than 200 parts.

      More simply, “SolidWorks is typically used to design mechanical assemblies comprising fewer than 200 parts,”

    1. You will learn how to start a new part file, the different file types, the user interface, different setting and view options.

      You will learn how to start a new part file, the different file types, the user interface, and different setting and view options.

  10. Dec 2021
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  12. Jul 2021
    1. It also typically goes hand in hand with another concept known as scratching your own itch. Building a product or service or website that you yourself would like to see in the world.

      Lots of punctuation mistakes in these two "sentences"—one being that this isn't really two sentences, since the second is a fragment, but it could be fixed by swapping the period for a colon or em dash.

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