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Vapor chambers and heat pipes are exceptional at moving heat from a relatively small part of them to distribute it around the whole. This is because the heat dumps into a liquid wh…

At some point I think I read a more complete justification, but I can’t find it now. There is evidence that it came about as a byproduct of the interaction of the HTML parser and J…

When a process crashes, its supervisor restarts it according to some policy. These specify whether to restart the sibling process in their startup order or to only restart the cras…

The other comment explains this, but I think it can also be viewed differently. It’s helpful to recognize that the inner script tags are not actual script tags. Yes, once entering …

This was my first submission, and the above comment was what I added to the text box. It wasn’t clear to me what the purpose was, but it seemed like it would want an excerpt. I onl…

Discussing why parsing HTML SCRIPT elements is so complicated, the history of why it became the way it is, and how to safely and securely embed JSON content inside of a SCRIPT elem…

You understand it correctly: it doesn’t remove any value from fixup; instead it just means you can fixup to whatever and move the commit visually to where you want it — doesn’t hav…

You can interactively rebase after the fact while preserving merges even. I usually work these days on stacked branches, and instead of using —-fixup I just commit with a dumb mess…

No but I think I saw that it’s a thermal pad, one with comparable thermal transfer characteristics to the high end (non-conductive) pastes.

TECs are wonderful little devices with operating characteristics unlike comparable devices. They can be designed to move a specific amount of heat or to cool at some delta-T below …

Several years ago I replaced the thermal paste in my MacBook Pro and I did it in two steps: first to high-end paste; and second to liquid metal. The results were impressive, and I …

Yes, that’s correct. All of these measures, of course, stand as a courtesy and are trivial to bypass, as ema notes. Finding cryptographic-strength measures to identify LLM-generate…

Unicode has a range of Tag Characters, created for marking regions of text as coming from another language. These were deprecated for this purpose in favor of higher level marking …

HyTime was Kimber’s work, and I found this reflections of his on “worse is better” to be quite refreshing, especially when contrasting the formality of SGML against the flexibility…

HTML didn’t make sense to me until I realized it’s built on a state machine and its rules are based on what’s on the stack of open elements. For example, a number of tags trigger a…

The story of XHTML is instructive to the field of software design. There are plenty of good resources on the web if you search why did XHTML fail ? HTML parsing at least is determi…

The memory test is missing some deprecated and non-conforming elements. The HTML spec doesn’t have a single comprehensive list either, so it can be a little tricky to define or nam…

Took me a while to process your response; thanks for providing to so much to think about. And yes, it is indeed nice meeting other SGML enthusiasts! Can’t say I’m familiar with the…

Fun fact: this is very close but slightly inaccurate. I used to think this is how it worked before scrutinizing a rule in the HTML tree-building specification. The tag leads the pa…

I’ve become quite a fan of writing in SGML personally, because much of what you note is spot-on. Some of the points seem a bit of a stretch though. Any type-checking inside of SGML…

DOM\HTMLDocument is a huge boon. Niels Dosche incorporated lexbor into PHP to do so, and it maintains the same interface as DOMDocument once it’s instantiated. In case people aren’…

Fun fact: HTML void elements came first. XML brought in "empty elements" by adopting SGML's "null end-tag" (NET), part of the SHORTTAG minimization (though it changes the syntax sl…

For better or worse XHTML, also known as the XML serialization of HTML, cannot represent all valid HTML documents. HTML and XML are different languages with vastly different rules,…

> Is not valid HTML, it's merely valid grammar syntax for a loose parser. It's an incredible journey writing a spec-compliant HTML parser. One of the things that stands out from th…