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@Jyotsna_Yadav by the time my drugs start asking me questions it is a bit late for that.

@zleap

It would not be considered a bug or even related to activity pub in anyway.

@skyblond

@zleap

Standard markdown nor all of the flavors of markdown I know support this. However some do support inserting HTML directly, which is the way you'd usually go about it (but as you saw has its own issues).

It is possible the WriteAs forum has a custom version of markdown that supports it somehow, but I doubt it.

My guess is that WriteAs simply wont support what you are trying to do.

@skyblond

@skyblond

Nothing sorry, I linked you earlier when the problem was still a bit of a mystery, figured you did something special. Now that we figured out it is stripping only Gargron could help potentially, or if someone out there knows a work around in general.

@zleap

@zleap

Wonderful, but you should tag gargron too, would you like me to tag him into this?

@skyblond

@Xoktz Looks amazing!

@pseudoriemann well people do sent messages all the time, though SOS is uniquely regular.

But if you just saw a flashing light in the distance or random tapping in a building would you even think its a message or morse code even if its regularly spaced?

@ccc

I am proficient enough with almost any language (aside from a few obscure ones) that the language itself, in terms of syntax, isnt a huge limiting factor for me.Most of the time I never even get far enough into my considerations to think of the language quality itself. The very fact that C++/C is compiled will often cause me to reject or select it as an option there alone. For example I love haskell conceptionally but almost never use it because it is compiled (there is an interpreted version but that has its own limitations as it is less popular).

Compiled to system-level binaries (and therefore platform dependent even if the code itself isnt platform dependent) will often rule out half the languages i want to use right off the bat. If I'm using a scripted language the fact that the code can be run directly and in its current form can be run on any system is often the very first requirement.

@cy

@trinsec TIL, thanks for that.

@trinsec Fair, Though I think a pretty standard pocket should handle it well. Unless your a lady (not sure your gender) in which case none of the clothing is build well for most knives anyway.

@trinsec Fair point. But still less exposure than your typical person who would have had those queues, plus the auditory ones. So if the general public only picks up on it half the time I'd expect a deaf person to know about it even less, at least on average.

The translation example you gave to me doesnt entierly strike me as an advantage. Typically in a movie it is intended that the viewer wont know the translation. Part of the story line is the expectation that the viewer needs to infer what is happening by tone and guess what is said, adding tot he mystery and the plot. So to have scenes translated that were meant to not be understood, to me at least, seems like a violation of the artistic integrity of the movie more so than an advantage.

That said if your watching a movie the second time through to know what is said during a foreign language scene might at least be a cool sort of trivia or insight.

Most of the subtitles I watch are from Netflix actually. so my view of the quality of subtitles is entirely correlated to whatever the quality of the netflix subtitles happen to be. with that said I always assumed the subtitles for most movies were universal and distributed with the movie itself and not reinvented for every broadcaster.

@trinsec perhaps not. It is about the length of a pencil or a pen. So to me it is as convient as a pen.

Also I would rather have it longer and slender than bulky. A typical folding knife ina shirt pocket where I kep pens would be too wide and bulky whereas this fits in well enough.

@2ck Well I'm mostly curious to get a sense of if this is something that would be effective in an everyday emergency situation. For example if your stuck on a mountain top and you flashed out SOS with your latern repeatidly how likely is it that a hiker or someone in the distance who noticed the light would recognize it as SOS. Similarly if someone were trapped and tapping out SOS on a pipe and a random person heard it, would they recognize it as an emergency call.

If you have to rely on context then it sounds to me that the answer in your case is, and should be, no.

@hector

not having a seperate sheath would be the main advantage. It includes a light and bottle opener which could be seen as advantages too but that could be done with a fixed blade too.

but yea its mostly the fact taht the "sheath" is attached so you dont loose it or have a seperate piece to mess with. Which to me is a nice advantage. Plus i dont know of too many fix blades that are this slender and easily carried in a shirt pocket.

@trinsec

@mur2501 I used to love swiss army knives as a kid but as I got older they came to feel cheaper and bulky and better multi-tool designs came about. so while I love the brand just because they hooked me as a kid I havent bought a swiss army knife in a while.

I really wish they would re-invent it and do something new, highquality, expensive, but with the spirit and branding of Swiss Army... I feel like they are just circling the drain as a company riding out the same old design for decades.

@a1batross

My projects can be big, but not interdependent. Like a huge API layer is fine since each component tends to be pass through and very isolated.

@cy @ccc

@trinsec well it is much thinner than a typical folbable blade, but also much longer. so while the volume is about the same the overall length is probably twice that of a folding knife with the same blade size.

@a1batross

Well I've coded in python before, and I'm doing it again. So clearly I do think it is workable and has a place. Though after this project I might use it a little less.

@cy @ccc

I just got a SOG Baton Q2 knife in the mail today. I think this is going to become my new everyday carry, I really like the design.

It is essentially a fixed blade folding knife, which you would think is a contradiction. But the knife blade and handle themselves are fix and its actually the sheath that folds down and away. I never saw a knife like this before. I generally dont like folding knives as they can under certain circumstances fold on you while using them and potentially cause a huge injury. But fixed blade knives tend to be big and not really well suited as an every day carry. This one seems to solve that problem giving you the convenience and size of a foldable knife while still being fixed blade.

Really really impressed with the innovation on this knife considering knives are so rarely innovative.