From 1859d54bf6118bc981105098f57b7c31a1531422 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lucian Mogosanu Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2017 15:53:59 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] posts, y02: Spellcheck --- posts/y02/03d-never-mind-the-balkans-heres-romania.markdown | 2 +- posts/y02/03f-android-the-bad-and-the-ugly.markdown | 4 ++-- posts/y02/041-cloud-software-is-unreliable-ii.markdown | 2 +- posts/y02/042-category-theory-software-engineering.markdown | 2 +- posts/y02/043-on-the-failure-of-marketing.markdown | 2 +- posts/y02/044-law-harm-good.markdown | 2 +- posts/y02/046-google-is-making-you-stupid.markdown | 4 ++-- posts/y02/048-slither-io-unfairness.markdown | 2 +- 8 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/posts/y02/03d-never-mind-the-balkans-heres-romania.markdown b/posts/y02/03d-never-mind-the-balkans-heres-romania.markdown index 0a4b3cf..f40b459 100644 --- a/posts/y02/03d-never-mind-the-balkans-heres-romania.markdown +++ b/posts/y02/03d-never-mind-the-balkans-heres-romania.markdown @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ tags: reading On the subject of [the way in which Romanians are][aferim] -- as a matter of fact, we are talking about the people living in the Carpatho-Danubiano-Pontic -space for the last millenium or so, regardless of their nationality or +space for the last millennium or so, regardless of their nationality or ethnicity; however, for the sake of brevity we shall call them Romanians -- it is worth mentioning that there is a general lack of literature to describe this, and furthermore there is a lack of people that are both able and willing diff --git a/posts/y02/03f-android-the-bad-and-the-ugly.markdown b/posts/y02/03f-android-the-bad-and-the-ugly.markdown index afc0efe..4295967 100644 --- a/posts/y02/03f-android-the-bad-and-the-ugly.markdown +++ b/posts/y02/03f-android-the-bad-and-the-ugly.markdown @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ control over it; but anyway, less prophecy and more facts. Note that this post is the result of years of usage and only because it doesn't cover the good parts, it doesn't mean that there are none. No -improvement ever arised from gratuitous praise, however, so if you see fit to +improvement ever arose from gratuitous praise, however, so if you see fit to apply the same critique to other operating systems, mobile or otherwise, feel free. @@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ granular: "access to the file system" doesn't say anything about which files are accessible; making calls or downloading files doesn't impose any quotas, so you can download a 200KB application that then eats through your entire data plan in five minutes; I won't even go into the web access permissions which -come as a complete privacy killer, nor into the wakelock acquision which can +come as a complete privacy killer, nor into the wakelock acquisition which can eat your phone's battery without you even noticing, but you get the general idea. Basically, all you're left with is trusting the application developers to not be malicious or utter incompetents. diff --git a/posts/y02/041-cloud-software-is-unreliable-ii.markdown b/posts/y02/041-cloud-software-is-unreliable-ii.markdown index 5636b6e..bf67f6b 100644 --- a/posts/y02/041-cloud-software-is-unreliable-ii.markdown +++ b/posts/y02/041-cloud-software-is-unreliable-ii.markdown @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ will have complete control over your data, including the power to forge stuff. Because in the logic of "preventing" "terrorism", no one's really thought of actually preventing terrorism. -**Scenario 5**: The great bankrupcy. Corporations are people, and +**Scenario 5**: The great bankruptcy. Corporations are people, and people, believe it or not, very often die of natural causes. So what will happen with your company's data when they discontinue Google? This will send giant ripples all through the Interwebs, and while you're diff --git a/posts/y02/042-category-theory-software-engineering.markdown b/posts/y02/042-category-theory-software-engineering.markdown index 0f475a4..8a76860 100644 --- a/posts/y02/042-category-theory-software-engineering.markdown +++ b/posts/y02/042-category-theory-software-engineering.markdown @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ certainly encourage you to have a look. While mathematics is an exact "science"[^4], its methodology differs from that of, say, physics or biology, which have fundamentally -different ojectives, although the latter very often make use of +different objectives, although the latter very often make use of mathematical means to make sense of the world. Instead, it'd be fairer to find the origins of mathematics in philosophy, which discusses concepts, or ideas, or essences, rather than objective experience. diff --git a/posts/y02/043-on-the-failure-of-marketing.markdown b/posts/y02/043-on-the-failure-of-marketing.markdown index 630bc27..42d9b63 100644 --- a/posts/y02/043-on-the-failure-of-marketing.markdown +++ b/posts/y02/043-on-the-failure-of-marketing.markdown @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ product, no more, no less. This is roughly the same as what people nowadays call "public relations". It happens, as the history goes, that in the past few decades[^1] a slow -but sure rupture between the term and its meaning occured, among others, +but sure rupture between the term and its meaning occurred, among others, in marketing, and this phenomenon will, I am assuming, continue along its path towards a slow and painful death. The meaning of marketing has already inflated, or rather, it has become more and more diluted, as diff --git a/posts/y02/044-law-harm-good.markdown b/posts/y02/044-law-harm-good.markdown index ae45b16..a6afef1 100644 --- a/posts/y02/044-law-harm-good.markdown +++ b/posts/y02/044-law-harm-good.markdown @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ continued existence of abstract entities such as "the society", "the state" and so on and so forth, have taught us individuals that laws have been put in place by our forefathers for morals, ethics, or in other words, for normative reasons. This, of all things, ensures that within -the pale of "society", "state" (and so on and so forth) activities ocur +the pale of "society", "state" (and so on and so forth) activities occur deterministically, and thus the continued existence of said entities. In modern democratic society, a heavy counterbalance to those otherwise diff --git a/posts/y02/046-google-is-making-you-stupid.markdown b/posts/y02/046-google-is-making-you-stupid.markdown index ebd7458..c8325e8 100644 --- a/posts/y02/046-google-is-making-you-stupid.markdown +++ b/posts/y02/046-google-is-making-you-stupid.markdown @@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ Web[^3]. While Google (the search engine) is a great piece of software, it's far from being the first of its kind, which means that the necessity of being able to find things in the vast stuff of the Web[^4] was there not in 1998, not even in 1995, but from the very beginning of -things. Thus denying the usefuleness of, and moreover, the need for +things. Thus denying the usefulness of, and moreover, the need for Google as a tool for finding information on the Internet would be like denying the need for a hammer to drive nails or the need for a gun to shoot down your enemy[^5]. @@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ its readers over with shitty ads and civilization continues to fail. [^3]: People of "the previous generation" might remember Gopher, Usenet and so on. I wasn't there, but it would make a lot of sense to compare these to nowadays' technologies, which would give some - historical perspective on the latter's *actual* usefuleness. + historical perspective on the latter's *actual* usefulness. [^4]: But not -- and this is a very important point -- on the Internet. Although CERN's version of hypertext appeared while the diff --git a/posts/y02/048-slither-io-unfairness.markdown b/posts/y02/048-slither-io-unfairness.markdown index c4e2a42..6c7a0b3 100644 --- a/posts/y02/048-slither-io-unfairness.markdown +++ b/posts/y02/048-slither-io-unfairness.markdown @@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ give you that chance to get satisfactorily fat. Or, well, maybe not. name here. However, it has the exact opposite of agency when I carry the damned gun. Or, to quote Dreamfall Chapters' Mr. London: - > A travelling salesman was advertising his wares. He sold weapons + > A traveling salesman was advertising his wares. He sold weapons > and armour. One day he came to a village where a great soldier > lived. > -- 1.7.10.4