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Re:Who Lusts for Certainty Lusts for Lies by scubbo on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @06:04PM (#37666393)
I, uhhhh.....I would like to know what TFA is meant to stand for, because I assume it is not "the ſucking article", but that was my first thought. Maybe "featured"? Google is only giving me "Teach For America" or "Trade Facilitation Agreement".
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Re:Who Lusts for Certainty Lusts for Lies by idrios on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @06:19PM (#37666532)
This is the kind of question that doesnt need to be answered with certainty. "The fucking article" is definitely the most fun interpretation of "TFA".
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Re:Who Lusts for Certainty Lusts for Lies by iudqnolq on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @06:15PM (#37666495)
it is the fucking article. or "featured" if you're feeling classy.
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Re:Who Lusts for Certainty Lusts for Lies by mjochim on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @06:50PM (#37666907)
I like to read it as The Fine Article.
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Re:Who Lusts for Certainty Lusts for Lies by klyrs on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @06:53PM (#37666939)
Does "fornicating" sound more polite to you?
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Re:Who Lusts for Certainty Lusts for Lies by scubbo on Wednesday September 27, 2023 @12:21AM (#37670080)
It does - but note that I made no mention of disapproving of impoliteness!
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Re:Who Lusts for Certainty Lusts for Lies by terr-dav on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @07:41PM (#37667467)
If TFA is derived from RTFA (itself I assume derived from RTFM), then "the fucking article" seems the most correct, official, and proper.
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Re:Who Lusts for Certainty Lusts for Lies by xp84 on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @08:18PM (#37667877)
I feel that the presence of this term here means that HN is the successor to the venerable Slashdot. Kind of comforting that there’s a straight line from the site that I spent so much time on 20 years ago, to this one.
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Re:Who Lusts for Certainty Lusts for Lies by dredmorbius on Wednesday September 27, 2023 @01:53AM (#37670704)
"The (Fine|Fucking) Article".

As others have noted, derived from RTFA (read TFA), which comes from RTFM (read the fine manual).

I don't know if RTFA/TFA originated at Slashdot, but both were certainly heavily used there, as noted in ... this fine Wikipedia article:

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slashdot>

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