> journalctl supports -f, which by your own account you were already using for tail, so I'm not clear what's worse there
Yeah, this is a bit of an odd complaint. If I were this bothered by having to type those, I'd just make an alias to "journalctl --follow --nopager"` and would have forgotten about it years ago.
> The unordered list markup symbol is a dash -. The other two Markdown options are * and +. But * is ambiguous and + is unpopular and there must be one way only!
THANK YOU for getting rid of the asterisk. As a former org-mode user it has always bugged me when people use the asterisk for lists, not headings. :)
Yeah the trailing slash cargo cult just goes to show the author has no idea what he/she is doing. Even more pointless is a pretentious space before the slash. It appears many extant uses of the bogus slash result from WordPress filters and their fragile nature (never change a running WP system aka WP trainwrecks) rather than manual insertion.
I've never heard of this. When / how / why would you use the trailing dot? I checked my sites and they redirect to the non-trailing version. Is that bad?
> Well, these browsers "helpfully" fix the URL to change backslashes into regular forward slashes, I suppose because people sometimes type in URLs and get their forward and back slashes confused.
More likely because Windows has historically used \ rather than the / that's standard in Unixish systems. Windows people are used to typing \, so it's indeed somewhat helpful for the browser to accept either (e.g., in file:// URLs).
They still have a point, though. There are virtually no platforms that don’t support forward slashes, yet there are abstractions in place to avoid simply using slashes. This may be irrelevant, but it’s still a useless layer of complexity.
Aaand you've just learned all the formatting HN has :). That, and URLs automatically turn into clickable everywhere except the body of a self-submission (i.e. submitting a text instead of a link). Any other formatting here is just convention.
> the users had, instead of altering the formatting appropriately, removed this automatic numbering, because Microsoft Word doesn't make these sorts of distinctions clear and explicit.
You can get into much worse situations than this once you leave the "happy path" in LaTeX.
Yeah, this is a bit of an odd complaint. If I were this bothered by having to type those, I'd just make an alias to "journalctl --follow --nopager"` and would have forgotten about it years ago.
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