That's pretty funny, I had to do a second take to notice the typo. I wonder if it's because there aren't any modern words that end in -lyn or are close to brooklyn.
Happens all the time when you are type setting, like writing in LaTeX. Its not designed to be your word processor and its easy to think you making minor edits/fixes when you are really quietly destroying everything you had already revised dozens of times.
I think getting your source file into Github and having it go through peer-review is the best way to avoid these types of issues. Also changing the diff format from 'diff-by-line' to 'diff-by-word' improves readability a lot.
Call me a cynic but these days it just seems like “mistakes” like these and the many examples from commercials and games must be deliberate. I mean why try to aim for something flawless when intentional mistakes can help make your content go viral.
It's a painful "mistake". Running a marathon is painful. Your legs run out of glycogen after about 30km and all you can think of is "I want to stop".
I'm surprised her mind was sharp enough to pick up the mistake.
Time: 3h 46m, pace: 5:21. That's fast for what is more like a training run. She could probably do solid 5:00 pace in a real competition.
One can train the body to burn some fat when running even when glycogen stores are full. That allows to push the depletion phase past the marathon distance. But according to my buddy who runs marathons such training is in itself is rather painful.
By the way, if you look at that map, the path would require more spacing between the O and the G, because the vertical pillars of N would otherwise overlap with the vertical lines in O and G. Compare with the spacing between O and N in "BOSTON".
I thought this about the Tesla truck with broken windows too. I'm unsure about the intention, but I definitely paid more attention to it and shared it more because of this.
Likewise with "leaks" about new products, games etc. On the one hand, genuine leaks do happen and are devastating for the teams that have to see their work exposed to the world half-baked and unpolished. On the other hand, a "leak" about the new iPhone that shows half a dozen professional glamour shots of the hardware plus some breathless adulation of the specs might just possibly have not have been entirely accidental.
>It took Lindsay Devers months of training and meticulous planning to plot out her marathon-length run along the Boston riverside to spell out an inspirational message for her city.
But in the end, she forgot one important thing — the letter N.
QA failure :) She had multiple friends look over the plan, and everybody missed it.
Sounds like BS. Probably just a publicity stunt. I mean, if you draw out the route first, you clearly are gonna notice the N missing. Only way this is believable is if she didn't draw it out first. That seems a rather arcane way to plan something (as verbal directions -- turn here, turn there, etc..) I think any sane person would just draw it out like a maze.
I’m saying she planned to start the S one block further on to the left of the image but messed up at some point. She knew she needed to finish the G before the park. So she started the S in the wrong place, continued TRO and then thought she must’ve been up to the G given the park was in sight. If she started the S a block to the left, it would’ve been centred with BOSTON.
Tangentially related: I rode cross country (on a bike) from SF to NYC, and on the last day when I arrived in Manhattan (around 3 or 4am, I think) I decided to write LOL in SoHo with the GPS.
Ironically enough, they also spelt the title wrong too.
I guess this is one of those en-US-vs-the-rest-of-the-english-speaking-world weirdnesses? I've never seen/heard "spelled" before in my native-English-speaking life as far I can remember.
Canadian spelling is a hybrid of British and American. For example, centre not center, but aluminum not aluminum.
For this particular word (spelled/spelt), British spelling allows both forms interchangeably, with spelled mildly preferred in Canada but both may be found:
I wonder if there's an east/west variation on usage in Canada. Out west here I've only seen spelled (and other similar words with ed rather than t) used. I suspect the closer to the maritime provinces you get, the more British influence on the usage.
I always used speeded for the past tense of "speeding" as in breaking the speed limit and sped as the past tense of "speeding" as in the phrase "speeding past". Similar to hang/hung/hanged where hung is the past tense of hang unless in the context of hanging the form of execution, whose past tense is hanged. I wonder if there's a name for this phenomenon.
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