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by anjbe 4y ago
How does Markdown decouple content from presentation?
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by anjbe 4y ago
Implicit end tags, which are completely unambiguous, have been a feature of HTML literally since its inception.
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In turn, probably descended from “RTFM”—on Slashdot people who commented despite obviously not having read the article were told to “RTFA,” which eventually led to “TFA” as a general term to refer to the original article.
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by anjbe 4y ago
And not just because of that. In XHTML‐as‐XML, where <div> does not implicitly end the paragraph, what you posted is still invalid because <p> cannot contain <div>.
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The Ur‐Quan Masters, better known as Star Control 2. http://sc2.sourceforge.net/ According to Wikipedia: > Released to critical acclaim, Star Control II is widely viewed today as one of the greatest PC games ever made,
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by anjbe 4y ago
> In my defense, here's a source that agrees with my conception: https://debate.fandom.com/wiki/Steelmanning > > Steelmanning involves arguing against the strongest possible version of the other side&#x27
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> the best possible form of their argument would probably involve dropping that -- even if it's actually a significant motivation If a point is so significant, then the result of dropping it would no longer be “their argument.” Doin
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> It's usually described as, "construct the best possible form of your opponent's argument." If they made some weak points in their argument, steelmanning would involve either ignoring those or reconstructing them to
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by anjbe 4y ago
> I don't think we should preemptively avoid points within an issue just because our opponent is either weak or strong on them. When steelmanning, the points avoided are points your opponent never made.
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This is not correct. What you’re describing sounds like how HTML5 standardized parsing of invalid HTML, but that is not the same thing as implicit closing tags, which have have always been valid, correct HTML producing an unambiguous, cle
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Popularity does not always correlate with quality, but Gutenberg’s “Top 100 Downloads” page is worth checking out: https://gutenberg.org/browse/scores/top
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LibriVox is great. As you mentioned, the quality varies, but some are real gems. My personal favorites are the Jeeves stories narrated by Mark Nelson: https://librivox.org/my-man-jeeves-by-p-g-wodehouse/ https:/&
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> "Standard" Ebooks also make their own non-standard editorial changes I take the name to mean that their books all follow a “standard” (i.e., single, consistent) style guide. > to modernize the language of the books. SE wil
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Early on, a major selling point of DuckDuckGo was that it filtered out SEO parked domain pages.
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> I can't see how anybody who has faith could be upset about it, though; to be upset about it, it seems to me you would have to have doubts yourself, and fear that discussion might turn up more facts that would cause you even more d
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by anjbe 4y ago
In the first paragraph of the link you posted, Richard Carrier calls Tim O’Neill “an asscrank, a total tinfoil hatter, filled with slanderous rage and void of any competence and honesty.” Surely if Carrier’s opinion of O’Neill is relevant t
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Richard Carrier is about the least disinterested individual one could cite on the subject of Jesus mythicism. His “celestial Jesus” view requires an ahistorical Jesus, which plausibly explains his vociferous attacks against anyone holding t
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It’s fun when reading very old books and correspondence to see how conventions have changed. For instance, in the 1780s, George Washington and his contemporaries often closed letters with variations of “I am, dear sir, Your most obedient hu
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by anjbe 4y ago
> So the parsing support is there. And it is used, e.g. tar Yes, the parsing support is there, so software written in the GNU style does build and run correctly on BSD systems. But although you bring up tar (a command that is well known
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by anjbe 4y ago
According to Dennis Ritchie, find(1) was developed by a different group at Bell Labs which explains the difference in style. “…We were somewhat put off by the syntax of their things. However, they were clearly quite useful, and they were a
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by anjbe 4y ago
A far more egregious error is pretending that -h/--help is some sort of universally implemented or agreed upon practice among command‐line tools.
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The cat command is rather infamous for using -v to mean “visual” (as in, convert invisible characters to something visible). But the infamy is not that it used -v for something other than “version”—I doubt that convention existed in 1983, w
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by anjbe 4y ago
“-help” being equivalent to “-h -e -l -p” is not a GNUism. It’s described by POSIX. If a utility takes the options “-a” and “-o something” and uses POSIX getopt(), then these are all equivalent: cmd -ao arg path path cmd -a -o arg
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by anjbe 4y ago
I tend to avoid doing this, for reasons someone else described in a comment ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30993390 ): some programs spit --help output to stdout, but others to stderr, so you wind up running it a seco
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But it’s not overly pedantic. POSIX is literally a formal standard, and that standard does not provide a mechanism for long options. Other “POSIX (i.e. Unix‐like) systems” like the BSDs do not generally use long options, nor do they general
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I always default to “man foo”, because of the occasional tool that when presented with -h or --help creates a file with that name; even if there’s no manpage, “man foo” will never have any undesired side effects. Nearly every tool does ha
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Mandoc, the default manpage formatter on OpenBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD, macOS, and some Linuxes (as well as web frontends like manpages.debian.org and man.archlinux.org), can convert manpages to Markdown, or to HTML directly: https://
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by anjbe 5y ago
One interesting effect of Twitter’s onion address: your 2FA options are limited. Any WebAuthn/FIDO/U2F keys you have registered with your Twitter account won’t work, because the key registration is tied to the domain name. I have
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OpenBSD’s dd(1) natively supports printing status with SIGINFO. If you run “stty status ^T”, then during dd you can press Ctrl-T to get an informational message including progress and rate of transfer. $ dd if=/dev/zero of=&
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by anjbe 5y ago
> Does mailbox.org even include the "From:" address in the DKIM signature? According to the spec, the “From:” field must be included in every DKIM signature. https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc

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