kattfisk
I’m still pissed at being forced to write in a passive voice in university. It’s awkward and carries less information, and makes it seem like nobody had any agency, science just kind of happened on its own and you were there to observe it.
I don’t know why anyone would prefer something like “An experiment was conducted and it was found that…”
To the much better “We conducted an experiment and found…”
I think this makes more sense when read together with the announcement that they are moving to unify their compute and consumer graphics architectures.
His comments about this catering to developers also make more sense in that light.
Don’t go by any general rules. If you are unsure, take it home and sit down with your mushroom guide book and go through all the ways of identifying it and separating it from similar species until you are sure, or you give up and throw it away.
Just off the cuff here are a couple of examples that violate the advice given above, golden chanterelle is very spicy but perfectly edible; gyromitra esculenta (“false morel”) does not have lamelles, is supposed to be mildly flavoured, but is deadly toxic.
Getting Saudi Arabia to sign a commitment to human rights and take part in a women’s rights forum opens them up to political pressure that would not otherwise exist.
The powerful nations will never let the UN be a supernational police agency. That doesn’t mean it has no value.