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Re:(Not) to Write a Pipeline by hbarka on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @12:38AM (#36502384)
Agreed. If there was a thesis in there, I wouldn't have mind reading through but it became tldr and I wanted so hard to find the life lesson. I also don't understand what's hip with ignoring the uppercasing of the initial letter in sentences. In code or short tweets, fine, but in composition of an essay it looks unscholarly and pretentious.
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Re:(Not) to Write a Pipeline by placesalt on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @04:04AM (#36503677)
> In code or short tweets, fine, but in composition of an essay it looks unscholarly and pretentious.

I think a good general rule is: for a single sentence, not capitalizing the first letter (and not using a period) is fine. Longer than that and it both makes parsing more difficult and looks strongly like an affectation. There is a practical purpose for sentence start/end punctuation.

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