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Re: How Postgres stores data on disk – this one's a page turner

#4

Title missing the leading "How"

I believe HN auto-strips such "filler" words, needs to be added again by a mod

Perhaps it should not? Why would such a silly feature be explained over and over rather than removed?

Re: How Postgres stores data on disk – this one's a page turner

#5

Title missing the leading "How"

I believe HN auto-strips such "filler" words, needs to be added again by a mod

I did add it into the title originally, must've been stripped. Thanks for the heads up, didn't know HN had this "useful feature".

Re: How Postgres stores data on disk – this one's a page turner

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post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I believe HN auto-strips such "filler" words, needs to be added again by a mod

Perhaps it should not? Why would such a silly feature be explained over and over rather than removed ?

Yeah, especially when it changes the meaning in silly ways.

My brain spent quite some time trying to figure out what the headline was trying to say.

Re: How Postgres stores data on disk – this one's a page turner

#7

Title missing the leading "How"

I believe HN auto-strips such "filler" words, needs to be added again by a mod

The submitter can edit the title after it has been auto-modified. It doesn't take a mod to do it unless some amount of time has passed.

Re: How Postgres stores data on disk – this one's a page turner

#8
post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I believe HN auto-strips such "filler" words, needs to be added again by a mod

Perhaps it should not? Why would such a silly feature be explained over and over rather than removed ?

Because there are a lot of articles in the news that add this word for no reason.

Re: How Postgres stores data on disk – this one's a page turner

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post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Perhaps it should not? Why would such a silly feature be explained over and over rather than removed ?

Because there are a lot of articles in the news that add this word for no reason.

Ahhh.. wouldn't that be better by using a percentage of filler words/total words in title threshold?? I don't know if a feature simply strips out the filler words in title, it's not always useful and rather harmful is what I would argue.

Re: How Postgres stores data on disk – this one's a page turner

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I believe HN auto-strips such "filler" words, needs to be added again by a mod

The submitter can edit the title after it has been auto-modified. It doesn't take a mod to do it unless some amount of time has passed.

Can't see any way of modifying the title, unless I'm missing something – maybe I missed the edit window.
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