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One Plus One Equals Two (2006)

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82 points lemper | 1 comments | 22 Oct 24 08:21 UTC | HN request time: 0.198s | source
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cubefox ◴[22 Oct 24 14:58 UTC] No.41914942[source]▶
Oh, so the λ in lambda calculus was just a poor man's circumflex.

Unrelated, but why doesn't Hacker News have support for latex? And markdown, for that matter?

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gabrielsroka ◴[22 Oct 24 15:26 UTC] No.41915234[source]▶
It supports https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc
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yjftsjthsd-h ◴[22 Oct 24 15:33 UTC] No.41915316[source]▶
Sure, but that's it's own not-quite-markdown thing, which is extra annoying because it's just close enough that people think it is markdown and do things like writing code blocks with ```. IMHO it'd be much better to just actually do markdown, or at least a strict subset.
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wholinator2 ◴[22 Oct 24 16:31 UTC] No.41916012[source]▶
Yeah but could it even be changed at this point? I'd imagine that once the ball gets rolling, changing any kind of formatting rules for a site with over a decades worth of (hundreds of thousands, tens of millions? ) of posts would be pretttty hard to get past committee
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1. cubefox ◴[22 Oct 24 19:14 UTC] No.41917640[source]▶
Simple solution: apply the new formatting code only to new comments, that is, comments written after the date the new formatting was supported.