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17:38
Woo spooky.
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Eventually, every epidemiologist becomes another statistic, a dedication to record-keeping which their colleagues sincerely appreciate.
 
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userr2684291
userr2684291
19:16
@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ It even imports the hoverbox message thingy.
Coolio.
(Tempted to say neato keen but I only have a single data point so far.)
@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ Anyway, setting aside probability, a math-assisted way to die can be pretty gruesome – imagine getting disintegrated (taken the derivative of?). (... That's it, I've got nothing else.)
@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ Well, I fixed it, but that wasn't the worst thing.
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@userr2684291 Well, astronauts could have died because of that unit conversion error which is kinda the math part of physics but it's not the mathematician that's dying
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userr2684291
Now that's a lowercase L.
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@userr2684291 If you copy-paste an xkcd link (link, not image) then it'd onebox and show the alt text on mouse over
userr2684291
userr2684291
19:33
@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ That's not the alt text for that picture (could be, but that's not what people normally mean by alt text).
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Eh, I've seen it being called like that often enough on Stack Overplow
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Also, I think in HTML the attribute title (or rather, its value) corresponds to the text in the hoverbox.
@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ Alt (alternative) text is what's shown when the image isn't loaded (either due to an error or deliberately – browsers for blind people use these, or so I've heard).
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Yeah, and yeah
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Sometimes when you have a slow connection as well, or when you deliberately set your browser to show this alternative text.
I.e., not load images.
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In lots of sites alt text has become hover-over text as well though, including SE
Hmm, it's probably more accurately called hover text but I don't feel like doing search queries right now
userr2684291
userr2684291
19:47
I've probably heard it a bunch of times, but I always use some circuitous way of describing it (hoverbox message thingy being my go-to way of expressing it).
Mouseover text, or hoverbox text work.
But I'm sure the way you put it is fine.
userr2684291
userr2684291
20:04
@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ Has it? I inserted an image into an answer using SE's version of Markdown, and I included some description. In the preview, the underlying JS, or whatever, converted that into a value of a corresponding alt attribute. It created a title attribute as well and left it empty.
When I used pure HTML the title attribute wasn't generated at all.
By the way, you probably didn't/can't see the image I posted above, but it showed that the asker used a lowercase L instead of an uppercase i as a personal pronoun.
Which of course isn't obvious at all in the serifless (yes, I'm arousing the wrath of gods) font most people see.
Ah, serifless isn't even unheard of.

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