@KitFox I suspect it's because of two related things: 1 - just the subject itself is troubling to most people (the idea of a distinction about rape), and 2 - the fact that he is questioning it is indicative of the disparaged side of the issue.
What if I go and down vote a whole bunch. Then everybody will notice and wonder 'why all the down votes today?' and i"ll be all like 'I did it because they suck.' and Kit will say 'Oh. I see.' and then that wil explain everything, and we can get back to talking about balrogs.
Imagine that you want to write something about colors and you know that red or blue would work in that context. How do you write that? I've seen these styles:
Red or blue
Red, or blue
Red/blue
Why is this sign used as a substitute for 'or'? I mean, in computer engineering, '|' represents 'or'...
@RegDwightАΑA Actually, no, it's not out in the open. None of us can see the voting patterns of other people. Like the email field in the profile. we can individually see our own, but not anybody else's.
unless maybe you're a mod.
@KitFox right. and even if the answer turns out to be 'no'... why does that make it off-topic?
I was working with a base64 encoding script, but it is throwing a lot of warnings in JSLint.
Can someone tell me what's the meaning of these symbols in JavaScript?
>>,<<,|,&
Here's an example of code with those symbols:
if ((c > 127) && (c < 2048)) {
utftex...
Why the disparity. And why use 'No.'? Is it from the French?
And the hash or pound sign seems a weird choice too, is there a history or any reason involved?
As @Mahnax answered to this question, the footnotes' sequence symbols is as follows (Chicago Manual of Style Online):
* (asterisk; but do not use if p values occur in the table; see 3.78)
† (dagger)
‡ (double dagger)
§ (section mark)
|| (parallels)
# (number sign, or pou...
what -is- the origin of 'A'? (that's rhetorical; I happen to know because I was there. to be truthful, it wasn't me but I was in the room at the time. Serifs -were- my idea though. Well...I told the guy writing to put some curlicues in there, and that's what came out. I came up with the name 'serif'. Sort of. I had this half cough sneeze thing going on and... Hey...is that Carlo?
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Have no fear of that, for even upon retiring from the Internet for your AN-H transgression, rest assured that the vast unspoiled Hinternet still awaits you.
@RegDwightАΑA If you think the ring finger on my left was inadvertently twitchier than the index finger on my right, then you are howling up the wrong tree. Modulo spurious lexical or phonologic substitutions, most of my own typos derive from fatfingering an alphabetically standard (viz. QWERTY/ASDFG/ZXCVB) keyboard, something spellcheckers would do well to consider. But I half-suspect you already knew that, so I'll try to bare with you.
@ΜετάEd You can't amuse a typography balrog. Their only reaction is rage — rage and aggression. Rage and aggression and devouring, gnashing of teeth, biblical or Tolkienesque carnage.
I don't see why non-solid things could not be hit by certain kinds of physical objects, but I do agree with Kit that they need some kind of magical strength on top of the physical.
What is the origin of the | (pipe symbol) in typesetting?
Imagine that you want to write something about colors and you know that red or blue would work in that context. How do you write that? I've seen these styles:
Red or blue
Red, or blue
Red/blue
Why is this sign used as a substitute for 'or'? I mean, in computer engineering, '|' represents 'or'...
If that's a commit number, I'd use the octothorpe (#).
What is the meaning of <<= and |= in C?
I recognise << is bitshift etc. but I don't know what these are in combination.
As @Mahnax answered to this question, the footnotes' sequence symbols is as follows (Chicago Manual of Style Online):
* (asterisk; but do not use if p values occur in the table; see 3.78)
† (dagger)
‡ (double dagger)
§ (section mark)
|| (parallels)
# (number sign, or pou...
“Bear with me,” the standard
expression, is a request for
forbearance or patience.
“Bare with
me” would be an invitation to undress.
Source
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