Rofl. Adobe really needs to work on their crash messages. Just changing the screen to a white box that says "Not enough memory." that you can't close out of is not a very good error.
There's a pending tag wiki edit which actually makes no changes at all as far as I can make out. As far as I can see there's a bug somewhere, the side by side diffs show no change and the markdown diffs show no change either. (Shows 7 identical lines skipped). I can't see any <!-- extra space ...
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Now this happened before, but the problem now is that the side-by-side rendering option has disappeared too:
so there's no way for me to see any changes. (I'm tempted to reject as 'too minor' anyway.)
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Yup, we're discussing technology and society this semester.
@balpha, I've got another question, since you've implemented a chat bot. My professor wants to know what kind of question would identify a bot over a human.
I'm sort of confused about what Mr. Disappointment is saying to me in this comment. Thoughts, anyone? I think I'm just misunderstanding his argument (or something).
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> To condemn this would be to stifle intellectual considerations and even ambitions,
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hyperbole, but a lot of good writing uses slightly obscure language, so perhaps this editing policy would constrain the quality of posts in that way if it's not allowed.
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> I can trace the logic of doing so right down to us all using text-speak as standard, because, well, the masses understand it.
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I personally do sort-of like the idea of editing lots of posts down to simple English for understandability, but think we should also let people who want to distinguish their posts with more unique writing styles do so.
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(I haven't actually looked at the original answer in question yet.)
The way I read it, he's basically arguing that we shouldn't edit something out (or edit a translation/replacement of it) simply because it's not commonly seen or understood.
If the answer as a whole is understandable, then a less-commonly-understood summation at the end is perfectly acceptable.
@JeremyBanks Ah, I got lost at the hyperbole there.
@JeremyBanks Right, I think that's cool. I've seen some metaphor-style posts from Eric Lippert that are great. So I agree with that in general. Just in this specific case, I don't see how that little latin phrase is helpful / insightful.
I guess he's just trying to prevent a slippery slope. Currently that edit is in question. If it becomes commonly acceptable and encouraged to make that edit, then the next border case becomes in question. And so on until we reach his hyperbole example.
@David Right. I certainly wouldn't want that. I was sort of speaking to the specific case. I guess a more general discussion would have to take into account the slippery slope.
@jadarnel27 Agreed. For the specific case I would say that it's enough of a border case and, while it arguably doesn't add to the answer, it also doesn't detract from the answer in any way, it's simply not worth an edit fight or raising to the moderators' otherwise very precious time.
@jadarnel27 Incidentally, I would tend to think the poster may have been using the phrase to clarify why he posted an answer contrary to what the asker wanted, rather than being condescending. Colloquially, "A word to the wise" usually emphasises a statement which is meant to be taken as an important hint.
As in this sentence: "A word to the wise, @TimStone doesn't like it when you ping him for no reason."
@YiJiangsProble_ Someone with an increasingly large number next to their avatar in chat, if I had to guess (@TimStone could probably confirm that though)
@mosh - "The miranda rights are the rights of someone who is arrested. In C++, the miranda rule is that if a programmer does not provide constructors, one is provided for you" - i lold :P
Turns out the transition from IS department of one to one of thousands of technical staff at a Fortune 500 company isn't the easiest thing in the world.
This suggested edit shows only
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Now this happened before, but the problem now is that the side-by-side rendering option has disappeared too:
so there's no way for me to see any changes. (I'm tempted to reject as 'too minor' anyway.)
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