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Beijing locals have adapted to the proliferation of rules not with complete obedience, but discernment of which can be safely ignored. Northerners are thus often unruly.
2021 Letter | Dan Wang
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This engine has some strict limitations, specifically the count of polygons it can process: There’s an extra 248 KB of RAM available used to store processed geometry, this amount accounts for up to 2048 triangles or 1706 quadrilaterals, although this limit is reduced by using polygon strips (as opposed to individual polys)
That’s when I first ran across the idea of the Persistent Uniform Resource Locator or PURL. I noticed that some of the URLs were starting to all have the same hostname purl.fdlp.gov. PURLs were created by Stuart Weibel and Erik Jul at OCLC in 1995, and were picked up by the GPO in 1997 as a way to mitigate broken URLs. The FDLP and GPO are still using PURLs today.
A Bit About PURLs
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