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Re:Markdown Now Has a UTI in Apple's Version 27 OSes by markx2 on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @11:13AM (#48818970)
I saw this in my feed reader this morning and my first thought was "How do you get a Urinary Tract Infection in an OS?"
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Re:Markdown Now Has a UTI in Apple's Version 27 OSes by ghoulishly on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @11:25AM (#48819135)
A dirty pipe
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Re:Markdown Now Has a UTI in Apple's Version 27 OSes by nozzlegear on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @12:51PM (#48820379)
Same here, at first I thought Gruber was using it ironically since he doesn't seem very fond of his own creation. But no, it really is "UTI."
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Re:Markdown Now Has a UTI in Apple's Version 27 OSes by borghives on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @11:13AM (#48818966)
There was an article in the top page yesterday complaining about acronyms. I can see its point now because UTI means something else in my family.
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Re:Markdown Now Has a UTI in Apple's Version 27 OSes by ChrisArchitect on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @01:39PM (#48821042)
Related:

Acronym Fatigue Series Introduction: why I'm wary of acronyms

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48811339

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Re:Markdown Now Has a UTI in Apple's Version 27 OSes by justsomehnguy on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @11:12AM (#48818952)
I still hate it for needing a two line feeds to get a newline.

But yeah, while I didn't encounter any encoding problems with md it would help somewhat for everyone to expect Unicode.

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Re:Markdown Now Has a UTI in Apple's Version 27 OSes by k310 on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @12:55PM (#48820442)
I was married to a Registered Nurse. Enough said.

Who here remembers when MCI was myocardial infarction?

It became MI after, well, you know ...

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Re:Markdown Now Has a UTI in Apple's Version 27 OSes by justsomehnguy on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @01:21PM (#48820800)
Despite having nothing common with I thought about the same.
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