What if it were just a really big Expert system?

That’s usually the thing that you call AI players or COM players in computer games.

An irrelevant but interesting take is that this applies as an analogue to a lot of stuff in electronics related space.

• It is harder to receive data than to transmit it, because you need to do things like:
  • match your receiver’s frequency with that of the transmission (which might be minutely different from the agreed upon frequency), to understand it
  • know how long the data will be, before feeding into digital variables, or you might combine multiple messages or leave out some stuff without realising
• this gets even harder when it is wireless, because now, you have noise, which is often, valid communication among other devices

Getting back to code, you now need to get in the same “wavelength” as the one who wrote the code, at the time they wrote the code.

Probably doesn’t follow the spec very closely.

It doesn’t require you to put a double space in the end off a line to get to the next. This is similar to a lot of other implementations you see on web pages.
But it does at least follow through with single level ordered and unordered lists (bullets and numbering) and even automatically adds a bullet when you press Shift+Enter
Also, single line code and code blocks, work.
Then there is the usual italics and bold and even a quote block.

It also converts most of them while you type, instead of you having to wait until sending it, which is better than UIs that don’t even have a preview button. I like Preview buttons.

I’d say, it’s good enough for casual stuff.

OIC. I should have thought about that.
And here I was considering making this the default way of doing a strikethrough.

On the other hand, perhaps we should update the screen readers to make that work. Maybe it can be added as a category of stuff that is to be explained separately.

The least I can do is install a screen reader and know what it does with this.

Google Translate’s “Listen” option seems to work well with it though.

WhatsApp good enough?

You mean ̶s̶t̶r̶i̶k̶e̶t̶̶h̶r̶o̶u̶g̶h̶? Yeah. It can be done without markdown.

Yeah!

Why do you need to capitalise the ‘e’ and add an ‘i’ and a ‘t’, when you already have something much less bloated like ed

ed, man! !man ed

I actually have multiple HDDs of the same model with only their serial numbers different.

I usually just open partitionmanager, visually identify my required device, then go by disk/by-uuid or by disk/by-partuuid in case it doesn’t have a file system. Then I copy-paste the UUID from partitionmanager into whatever I am doing.

Fucking around in /sys feels like I’m wielding a power stolen from the gods

I presume you have had to run on RAM, considering you removed all drives

unless you want to make your day a lot more fun

Edit

That is bloat!

Just look at the number of files required to build it. Just for a text editor!

A single Makefile and a source file should be enough!

Just use ed man!

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You put the double ‘un’ but forgot the double ‘dead’.

Oh, I didn’t realise you were actually catching the thing mid statement.

Still:

• A dead un-dead would be a re-dead, not very alive
• Considering the 2x dead person is still capable of commenting, I would assume it came back after re-death and is now in some other condition.