| ▲ | ragebol 4 days ago | ||||||||||||||||
*local maximum. Maxima is plural, maximum is singular. /pedantic Now I'll read the actual article | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | azangru 4 days ago | parent | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||
> Maxima is plural In Latin. I am surprised this word hasn't been internalised enough to just use the regular English plural marker. Maximum / maximums. | |||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | AndrewDucker 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||
It's because they've used the plural of "Trait" in an ungrammatical way, and so used the plural of "maxima". Traits aren't a local maxima - the trait design is a local maximum. Or traits are at a local maximum. The traits themselves aren't a maximum (or maxima (or maximae)). | |||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | smitty1e 3 days ago | parent | prev [-] | ||||||||||||||||
If one squints, this is the heart of the article: scope. The lust to get to a final, complete set of types across all projects for the system for all time will never be satisfied. The question moves to who has the preferred shims. | |||||||||||||||||