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opus3: improve wording and fix typos, thank you IanJ - tgtimes - The Gopher Times
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HTML Author: Josuah Demangeon <me@josuah.net>
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2022 21:27:36 +0100

opus3: improve wording and fix typos, thank you IanJ

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DIR diff --git a/opus3/article-100rco-uxn.mw b/opus3/article-100rco-uxn.mw
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Uxn portable assembly language
.PP
The web is well-known for its drift toward \fIplatform effect\fR:
reproducing the features of the underlying operating system from
-one of its application, in this case, the web browser.
+one of its applications, in this case, the web browser.
This is largely made possible through javascript, and the advent
of WebAssembly can only contribute more to this.
.
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ platform on things as small as a 32bit microcontroller:
.
.QP
Currently, there are ports (not all are complete) for GBA, Nintendo
-DS, Playdate, DOS, PS Vita, Raspberri Pi Pico, Teletype, ESP32,
+DS, Playdate, DOS, PS Vita, Raspberry Pi Pico, Teletype, ESP32,
iOS, STM32, STM32, IBM PC, and many more.
.
.DS
DIR diff --git a/opus3/article-bitreich-radio-auto-generated-music.mw b/opus3/article-bitreich-radio-auto-generated-music.mw
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ The #bitreich-radio title display has been fixed too.
.PP
I hope, this increases the listening experience.
.PP
-All recommendations, especially about more auto-generated music, is welcome. We need to escape the copyright mafia trap.
+All recommendations, especially about more auto-generated music, are welcome. We need to escape the copyright mafia trap.
.PP
Sincerely yours,
Chief Music Manager (CMM)
DIR diff --git a/opus3/article-ploum-forever-computer.mw b/opus3/article-ploum-forever-computer.mw
@@ -7,8 +7,8 @@ never sleeps while trying to raise the bar over and over. It plays with
the limit of physics to keep the Moore's Law dream going.
.
.PP
-By Building faster computers, hardware engineers offer more resource to
-software makers, allowing to build more ambitious projects.
+By Building faster computers, hardware engineers offer more resources to
+software makers, allowing them to build more ambitious projects.
The computer performance discipline sure have been worked up thoroughly.
.
.PP
@@ -16,19 +16,19 @@ If the software comsumes all the extra computing power for its own goal,
then we are conjointly building very fast snails.
.
.PP
-This conquest for aa better cost/performance balance is one direction
+This conquest for a better cost/performance balance is one direction
for evolution of computers, but it as well possible to imagine a
race for better reliability and durability instead.
.
.PP
-Ploum offers a vision of what a computer maximizing durability of
+Ploum offers a vision of what computers are like when maximizing durability of
the hardware, but also the software ecosystem, so that a computer
built today still be useful in 50 years without upgrades (not
preventing upgrades to happen).
.
.PP
An old knife is still a piece of metal that can be sharpened over
-again to be able to cut long after it was built. Can it be the same
+again to be able to cut long after it was built. Could this also be true
for computers?
.
.DS
DIR diff --git a/opus3/article-tgtimes-100-years-of-radiodiffusion.mw b/opus3/article-tgtimes-100-years-of-radiodiffusion.mw
@@ -2,18 +2,18 @@
100 years of radiodiffusion
.
.PP
-Internet existed forever: books and printed press have always been
+The Internet existed forever: books and printed press have always been
around for communicating ideas and information, and evolved
-progressively to become what Internet is today.
+progressively to become what the Internet is today.
.
.PP
Letters were carried by messengers riding horses, postal train, or
airplanes. Long-range communication evolved from here slowly for a
-lot of time, but accelerated a lot on these recent years.
+lot of time, but latency and bandwidth improved a lot these recent years.
.
.PP
The common pattern: a new discovery in electronics permits a new way
-to communicate information on a long-distance, with a lighning-fast
+to communicate information on a long-distance, with a lightning-fast
adoption all around the world:
.
.IP "1919 "
@@ -21,13 +21,13 @@ wireless telegraphy and music transmission on Germany, Netherland
and United-States
.
.IP "1920 "
-daily radio programmes in England, United-States and URSSR
+daily radio programmes in England, United-States and USSR
.
.IP "1921 "
-radio broadcasting on Eiffel Tower with a 900W power intensity
+radio broadcasting on Eiffel Tower with 900 W power intensity
.
.IP "1922 "
-foundation of BBC and arrival of 2000W broadcastings
+foundation of BBC and arrival of 2000 W broadcastings
.
.PP
A few years before, the long-range communication tool was paper.
DIR diff --git a/opus3/article-tiny-creatures.mw b/opus3/article-tiny-creatures.mw
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ A world of tiny creatures
Ants. Is that what we would look like to the eyes of a giant? What
if one of those giants had the curiosity of looking down on our
world, watching all our tiny activities, our tiny trades, our tiny
-farming, our tiny meals, our tiny families, our tiny lives.
+farming, our tiny meals, our tiny families, our tiny lives?
.
.PP
E.O. Wilson was one of these giants, looking at the ants: the real
@@ -14,6 +14,6 @@ study of insects.
.
.PP
After 92 years of passionated life, E.O. Wilson is fading away,
-joining the soil, which he spent its life observing. Closing its
+joining the soil, which he spent its life observing. Closing his
own book, while at the same time inviting everyone to open their
eyes, and watch, carefully, this world of tiny creatures.
DIR diff --git a/opus3/article-unix-calendar-command.mw b/opus3/article-unix-calendar-command.mw
@@ -2,9 +2,9 @@
The UNIX calendar(1) command
.
.PP
-It is probably there sitting on \fC/usr/bin\fR, the
+It is probably there sitting in \fC/usr/bin\fR, the
calendar(1) command can offer you a fair dose of flexibility that
-lack to web-based or smartphone-based calendars.
+lacks in web-based or smartphone-based calendars.
.
.PP
By storing events on a single file of text edited by hand, calendar(1)