On 11/10/2018 01:26, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 10:09 AM Thomas Jollans <t...@tjol.eu> wrote:
On 10/10/2018 23:32, Gregory Ewing wrote:
Rhodri James wrote:
I'm a great fan of erroneous spelling and this blog needs a spelling
check as this quote shows
"Mathematica exemplifies the horde of new Vandals whose pursuit of
private gain threatens a far greater pubic loss–the collapse of
social systems that took centuries to build."
OK, colour me confused. The only spelling mistake I can spot in that
is in the subject line of this thread. What am I missing?
Presumably Romer meant that it was a loss suffered by everyone,
but that's not quite what he wrote.
Sure it is. He's contrasting *private* gain with *public* loss. If there
is any ambiguity here it is whether there is a threat *of* a public
loss, or *to* a public loss ^_^
Now read the quote again, very VERY carefully.
The human brain is very good at ignoring insignificant errors.
(The troll brain is very good at pointing out insignificant errors.)
... and this is why we need exception tracebacks
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