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Not many people know this, but similar to image alt text, the tag was originally introduced for accessibility reasons, so that people with autism and similar conditions can experience the web in the same way as more neuro-typical folks do. The tags should be invisible in the average browser, unless you've got sarcasm highlighting turned on. Unfortunately, the feature hasn't really caught on, and it remains unsupporte…
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> maybe a little training on why customizing a programming language with macros is bad Both the author and the reviewer had passed C++ style certification. They knew why it was bad. They just got a little lazy and wanted to write their code in a way that felt familiar to them, and figured it was harmless. I got a bit grumpy at having to drop what I was doing right away to fix their mistake due to their laziness.
also, just to be clear. the macro only included open and close curlies? if so that's silly, as it is literally 2x the work to type. if they also included some sort of state that had to be managed, then it starts to verge towards reasonable.
Relatedly, I have a string of text that, when pasted into Windows 11's Notepad, consistently causes it to crash. I don't know who to report this to.
Took me right back one of many detentions I served at school, when Mr B Swales set us the challenge of finding a grammatically correct English sentence with five ands in a row. The answer was as follows: The landlord of the "Dog and Partridge" pub commissioned a signwriter to letter a new board outside. On looking at the work, the landlord declared that he liked the colour but would prefer more spacing between Dog an…
Why did that lead to detention?
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Also, Therefore, And, Anyway, But, Who, Why, Besides, However. Each in caps 5 times with the same word with a period and space after each word and newline at the end is what I have found so far. Can anyone find others? Edit: added words that work found in other comments, and found more.
Interestingly, "Or. Or. Or. Or. Or." doesn't trigger it.
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Probably just getting triggering excessive backtracking on some regex.
Ironic, from the authors of RE2. They know the correct way to implement regexes. Though, when I worked on Google's indexing system, some researchers were having machine learning generate regexes to run on every page in the visible web... and mis-implemented the feature to re-compile the regex to DFA (which re2 effectively lazily converts to NFA via memoization) for every single page load. The speed of the indexing sy…
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Took me right back one of many detentions I served at school, when Mr B Swales set us the challenge of finding a grammatically correct English sentence with five ands in a row. The answer was as follows: The landlord of the "Dog and Partridge" pub commissioned a signwriter to letter a new board outside. On looking at the work, the landlord declared that he liked the colour but would prefer more spacing between Dog an…
When I come across posts like these, I just wonder, "How in the world did the user discover this in the first place?!" Let's place bets: A) The user just let autocomplete "take it away" (not sure about this one since they were able to access the console) B) Pen Testing? C) Error copy and pasting? D) Actual dialog in a sci-fi post-apocalyptic love story where a robot discovers the Turing test and attempts to set itsel…
Years ago in school, maybe about 1992 or so, I managed to make xdm (X Display Manager) crash and dump me a root window by simply holding down a key until the buffer ran out. I remember wondering how anybody didn't discover this before me. Similar behavior with the university phone system (repeatedly pressing '0') eventually dropped me an outside line that I didn't have to pay for (yes, for you young folks, we used to…
The number required was pretty high, but you could get to it by copy pasting an already typed (In the emergeny dialer) number for a while, crashing the lockscreen until the next reset
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I'm curious what the closest sentence you would allow yourself to write would be.
I'd go with, "Someone I don't know came into this room and took everything," or even, "Someone came into this room. I don't know them, but they took everything." I'm not against a neuter pronoun where it's justified, but there was no need for "themselves" here, and it was worse than several alternatives.
> or even, "Someone came into this room. I don't know them, but they took everything."
"Them" would still be plural by your earlier logic though. Unless you're suggesting that you think "themselves" is plural and "themself" would be the singular?
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"Someone came into this room. I don't know them, but they took it upon themselves to take everything." What would be the correct pronouns here in your view?
Not who you're asking, but I would say 'themself' here. I can't see that it's ('themselves' is) not plural. (Edit: Actually the more I think about that the less I'm sure what I'd say..)