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Re:Twitter is at its best when verified accounts can’t tweet by Kye on Thursday July 16, 2020 @02:18PM (#23862014)
I know of them, but I can never remember them, and I wouldn't know how to search for them. I'm not sure what they were thinking when they came up with inaccessible accessibility terms.
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Re:Twitter is at its best when verified accounts can’t tweet by lxdesk on Thursday July 16, 2020 @08:35PM (#23865626)
Neat fact: I learned the other week that this exact format(first, last, number of characters in between) is how old Forths compressed the word encoding. It has a very low collision rate.
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Re:Twitter is at its best when verified accounts can’t tweet by chrisweekly on Thursday July 16, 2020 @10:28PM (#23866331)
That comment is a perfect example of what I love about HN; a polite tangential discussion about abbreviations unearthing a wholly unexpected connection to a clever technical hack. Thank you for sharing! :)
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Re:Twitter is at its best when verified accounts can’t tweet by chrisweekly on Saturday July 18, 2020 @11:01PM (#23886678)
"I wouldn't know how to search for them"

I don't believe you are incapable of typing "a11y" into your browser's location bar.

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