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|    Alexander Koryagin to Anton Shepelev    |
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|    05 Aug 21 18:14:40    |
      MSGID: 2:221/6.0 610c0060       REPLY: 2:221/6.0 610bbd62       PID: SmapiNNTPd/Linux/IPv6 1.3 20210704       CHRS: LATIN-1 2       TZUTC: 0300       TID: hpt/lnx 1.9.0-cur 2021-08-03              Hi, Anton Shepelev! -> Ardith Hinton       I read your message from 05.08.2021 13:28               AS> Life was slower in the past, and many technical innovations were        AS> gained not so much by disciplined engineering and research, but by        AS> hard and painful trial and error, like groping in the dark, through        AS> several generations of masters and craftsmen. Thomas Eddison wrote        AS> about his method that failure is the discovery another of way that        AS> does not work. This approach is not always inferrior in that in can        AS> lead to inventions that modern engineers, going by the more direct        AS> route, overlook.              It's interesting -- do we use today any of Thomas Eddison's inventions?       I've caught myself at the idea that we don't.              Bye, Anton!       Alexander Koryagin       english_tutor 2021       ---         * Origin: nntp://news.fidonet.fi (2:221/6.0)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 14/0 30/0 90/1 103/705 105/81 120/340 123/131 129/305       SEEN-BY: 154/10 218/700 221/1 6 226/30 227/114 702 229/101 424 426       SEEN-BY: 229/700 1016 1017 240/1120 5832 249/206 317 261/38 282/1038       SEEN-BY: 301/0 1 101 113 317/3 322/757 335/364 342/200 460/58 712/848       SEEN-BY: 920/1 4500/1 5020/1042 5058/104       PATH: 221/6 301/1 229/426           |
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