What's up with all those equals signs anyway?
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What's up with all those equals signs anyway?
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Re: What's up with all those equals signs anyway?
#2I love how HN always floats up the answers to questions that were in my mind, without occupying my mind.
I, too, was reading about the new Epstein files, wondering what text artifact was causing things to look like that.
Re: What's up with all those equals signs anyway?
#3https://web.archive.org/web/20260203094902/https://lars.inge...
Did the site get the HN kiss of death?
Re: What's up with all those equals signs anyway?
#4I love how HN always floats up the answers to questions that were in my mind, without occupying my mind. I, too, was reading about the new Epstein files, wondering what text artifact was causing things to look like that.
Same here. I did notice what I think was an actual error on someone's part, there was a chart in the files comparing black to white IQ distributions, and well, just look at it:
https://nitter.net/AFpost/status/2017415163763429779?s=201
Something clearly went wrong in the process.
Re: What's up with all those equals signs anyway?
#5TLDR "=\r\n" was converted to "=\n"
Re: What's up with all those equals signs anyway?
#6CLRF vs LF strikes again. Partly at least.
I wonder why even have a max line length limit in the first place? I.e. is this for a technical reason or just display related?
Re: What's up with all those equals signs anyway?
#7TLDR "=\r\n" was converted to "=\n"
Author seems to think Unix uses a character called "NL" instead of "LF"...
Re: What's up with all those equals signs anyway?
#8CLRF vs LF strikes again. Partly at least. I wonder why even have a max line length limit in the first place? I.e. is this for a technical reason or just display related?
I am just wondering how it is good idea for a sever to insert some characters into user's input. If a collegue were to propose this, i d laugh in his face
It's just sp hacky i cant belive it's a real life's solution
Re: What's up with all those equals signs anyway?
#9CLRF vs LF strikes again. Partly at least. I wonder why even have a max line length limit in the first place? I.e. is this for a technical reason or just display related?
I haven't seen them other than in the submission - but if the length matches up it may be that they were processed from raw email, the RFC defines a length to wrap at.
Edit: yes I think that's most likely what it is (and it's SHOULD 78ch; MUST 998ch) - I was forgetting that it also specifies the CRLF usage, it's not (necessarily) related to Windows at all here as described in TFA.
Here it is in my 'notmuch-more' email lib: https://github.com/OJFord/amail/blob/8904c91de6dfb5cba2b279f...
Re: What's up with all those equals signs anyway?
#10CLRF vs LF strikes again. Partly at least. I wonder why even have a max line length limit in the first place? I.e. is this for a technical reason or just display related?
I am just wondering how it is good idea for a sever to insert some characters into user's input. If a collegue were to propose this, i d laugh in his face It's just sp hacky i cant belive it's a real life's solution
When you post a comment on HN, the server inserts HTML tags into your input. Isn't that essentially the same thing?