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top 5 unsolved problems in computer science (lemmy.today)
submitted 2 days ago by LodeMike@lemmy.today to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.today/post/30790048

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[–] tatterdemalion@programming.dev 18 points 2 days ago (8 children)
  1. Yes I hate this so much.
  2. Use a better window manager.
  3. Use a better web stack.
  4. Don't most browsers support this?
  5. https://wormhole.app/
[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

I love it so much when ~~reddit~~ lemmy clients think they are smarter and they renumber points 5 to 1 as 5 to 9..

edit: oops, still sometimes writing reddit instead of lemmy after almost 2 years..

[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's not the client, it's markup.

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

this is not a defined thing in markdown, just the markdown renderers of some clients do it

[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This here is apparently the original source of the markdown specification, and there it clearly says that this is the correct behaviour: https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax#list

Ordered lists use numbers followed by periods:

  1. Bird
  2. McHale
  3. Parish

It’s important to note that the actual numbers you use to mark the list have no effect on the HTML output Markdown produces. The > HTML Markdown produces from the above list is:

If you instead wrote the list in Markdown like this:

  1. Bird
  2. McHale
  3. Parish

or even:

  1. Bird
  2. McHale
  3. Parish

you’d get the exact same HTML output

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

hmm, you are right. it's not actually a bug in the renderer then

[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 1 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

The only difference to the standard that I see is that the standard says it should be 1,2,3,4,5, while at least for me it renders as 5,6,7,8,9.

But that's probably because it doesn't render as HTML and thus doesn't rely on HTML to do the numbering.

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