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Ah, *TeX, the ultimate outcome of what I see is what I meant. (Also, if folks don't know about overleaf it... shockingly doesn't suck as an online LaTeX engine)
Sydney, Australia
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I have my whitespace set to visible in my IDE for exactly things like this. And yes, WP5.1's reveal codes was a similarly useful thing. WYSIWYG is far inferior to WYSIWYM.
Colorado Plateau
#same
Brooklyn, New York
So much THIS!
It's bad enough in native apps but browser-based services have taken it to a new level (looking at you, Confluence)
It's bad enough in native apps but browser-based services have taken it to a new level (looking at you, Confluence)
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God, I miss "Reveal Codes" from WordPerfect. It made fixing formatting problems *so* much easier over watching your entire document re-format because you delete a single paragraph break.
The struggle is real. 😬
📌 Lincoln, NE ❤️️ Sherman, TX
Yeah, I get this anxiety too.
And it can actually be an issue. The best case is that at some point in the future you click into that space and start typing, only to find everything in bold. Easily fixed.
The worst case is that you find one of the chaotic, baffling stupid dead ends in Microsoft Word's layout engine and lose hours fighting it to get what you're sure should be a relatively simple layout.
And it can actually be an issue. The best case is that at some point in the future you click into that space and start typing, only to find everything in bold. Easily fixed.
The worst case is that you find one of the chaotic, baffling stupid dead ends in Microsoft Word's layout engine and lose hours fighting it to get what you're sure should be a relatively simple layout.
London, United Kingdom
And this is why web developers keep opening the developer tools to look at the page markup, and why grey-beards fondly remember Word Perfect's "Reveal Codes" feature.
To avoid errors like this, we render all text and pipe it through OCR before processing, fixing a handful of irregular bugs by burying them beneath a smooth, uniform layer of bugs.
To avoid errors like this, we render all text and pipe it through OCR before processing, fixing a handful of irregular bugs by burying them beneath a smooth, uniform layer of bugs.
From Paleofuture, “Technology, Ranked”, a list of the 100 most important technologies ever invented by humans. Among the items on the list (one of which is the top pick) are the fork, the electric guitar, cotton gin, nuclear weapons, anesthesia, GPS, Prozac, and the wheel. Fire is #2:
Tags: best of listsAncient peoples harnessed fire in ways that allowed them to control their environment. For example, aboriginal Australians were able to keep bushfires under control by shaping and manipulating what they destroyed-reinvigorating the land and limiting the number of fires that had the potential to get out of control.
It’s fire. It’s kinda important.
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It all comes down to the limbic systems and your prefrontal cortex. Your monkey brain vs. your human brain. And the one thing that has been shown to weaken your limbic response and strengthen the response of your prefrontal cortex? Mindful meditation. (via @christopherjobs)
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Das Leben ist kein Ponyhof!
I assume this browser extension will be released this afternoon.
Boston, MA
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space ^
milky way
What's an astronaut doing in rural Mississippi? Did they get kidnapped?
Nashville, Tennessee
ALT: That night, retired USAF pilots covertly replaced the '62' with '50'.
San Diego, California
The Vitamin Myth: Why We Think We Need Supplements: 
A fascinating and potentially important read — especially if, like me, you’re a vitamin taker.
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As my former father-in-law (licensed pharmacist) used to say - "the only thing vitamins do is make your pee & poop more expensive"
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Wow - "In 2007, researchers from the National Cancer Institute examined 11,000 men who did or didn't take multivitamins. Those who took multivitamins were twice as likely to die from advanced prostate cancer."
Some studies say multivitamins have no effect, some say they potentially increase risk to die from cancer. Now I'm wondering if they increase the risk to get cancer in the first place?
Some studies say multivitamins have no effect, some say they potentially increase risk to die from cancer. Now I'm wondering if they increase the risk to get cancer in the first place?
Taipei, Taiwan