Singular "pant" has recently-ish become accepted fashion industry jargon: "Our spring collection includes a khaki pant and a capri pant". I've started to see it creep from there into everyday language.
This might stem from noncount noun rules rather than any particular trend for the word "pants".
Typical example is the word _water_. It is noncount except when talking about types of water. E.g., this year we introduced a vitamin water and an energy water to our line of beverages. By extension, you can pluralize it: we introduced two new waters this year.
I don't disagree that pants might be slowly becoming countable, just noting that the particular verbiage of "a capri pant" or whatever can be produced using the usual rules.
Yeah I'm a little surprised not to see the article touch on keyboard layouts (e.g. DEC, Sun) that had Ctrl in the home row where Caps Lock is on a PC keyboard. While Emacs may have been initially developed on the "space cadet" keyboard, it really became popular on Unix systems that often had an even-easier-to-reach Ctrl key. And to this day swapping caps lock with a modifier remains fairly common.
> The idea was that you didn't want young kids opening the driver side door and stepping out into traffic.
I always heard that was sort of a retroactive justification, and the real reason is that a driver's side sliding door would have interfered with the fuel filler. The second-generation Chrysler minivans solved that problem by introducing a mechanical interlock, so that you couldn't open the driver's side slider while the fuel door was opened.
In the Palo Alto/Mountain View/Sunnyvale area I see Waymo, Nuro, and unmarked-but-we-all-know-it's-Apple autonomous vehicles quite frequently. A few times a week at least.
Cruise specifically operated in SF where I agree they have been a very common sight.
> That's possibly the most inefficient way of saying "AWS bought Fig" but I guess it makes some people happier to frame it that way
Often that kind of language is employed when the actual transaction was structured as an asset sale coupled with en-masse hiring of the team, rather than a true acquisition of the company as a complete entity, which is not an unusual scenario when a company is in distress.
Good ergonomics for Perl-style quick and dirty text processing were part of the original design goals for Ruby. Those parts of the language are still there. You can write code that feels more concise than Python yet, IMO, tends to be more readable/maintainable than Perl can stereotypically be. Modern style guides, however, de-emphasize that style of Ruby since it might not be the most appropriate in the context of say a large Rails project.
... Electrolytic capacitor manufacturers have to publish Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) just like everyone else, disclosing exactly what's in there (with CAS numbers and everything), what the health and safety risks are, and giving advice on treating an exposure. They don't have to give the exact percentages or recipe for making the electrolyte, and they can omit mention of constituents that are known harmless (e.g. water), but they certainly can't put random dangerous chemicals in their products without saying so.
A big usecase for C is embedded systems projects where wrangling cross-compilers, debug dongles, etc. can become a big headache especially when trying to keep multiple developers' local toolchains in sync or when managing multiple projects with different requirements for the development environment.
PlatformIO is a dream for this, running build on a project automatically downloads the required toolchains for the target and orchestrates the build process for you.
The key dimension for refracting astronomical telescopes is the diameter of the primary lens, which is 36 inches at Lick and 40 inches at Yerkes.
However, my understanding is that the Yerkes lens has suffered cracks around its perimeter and the telescope has been stopped down with baffles to mitigate the optical problems these cracks would otherwise cause, such that presently the Lick telescope has a larger clear aperture.
