CarlRJ

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by CarlRJ 7y ago
The "solution" is to make it "not a list" by escaping every first "." in your first example with a backslash. Yeah, this one _is_ annoying. I'm not one to post chess games, but I've run into this one
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by CarlRJ 7y ago
Indeed, Gruber has resisted efforts to more thoroughly specify parts of the syntax (resolving ambiguities in parsing), saying that the original form works for his needs. This "power vacuum" has led to things like CommonMark ( http
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by CarlRJ 7y ago
That's why we'll record them in base 97. Much more compact, therefore easier to read.
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by CarlRJ 7y ago
YouTube keeps offering YouTubeTV and their other services with pop-up boxes where the two choices are "yes", or "skip trial", which sounds like they're offering a yes/yes choice: yes sign up for the trial, or s
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by CarlRJ 7y ago
And while one such data point pair isn't conclusive, getting, say, a dozen matching pairs might identify a user with high enough correlation to be useful.
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by CarlRJ 7y ago
The nominal purpose of the Raspberry Pi is education. The Raspberry Pi Foundation (RPF) sells Pi's commercially and they fold the profits back into their education program. They present Python as a good language to use on the Pi (for t
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by CarlRJ 7y ago
On the other hand, it has been suggested that quite a few deaths that are actually suicide using a gun get reported as "gun cleaning accident", presumably to lessen the impact on relatives (however slightly).
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by CarlRJ 7y ago
They weren't in K&R. I recall a story about a standardization meeting, on the way to ANSI C, where representatives from some European(?) country that didn't have some of the necessary punctuation on their country-specific keyb