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Re: on Saturday July 18, 2026 @04:34PM (#48962090)
New New here is that the original Conjecture is now established as a pair of Corollaries.

Final revision to appear on arXiv on Tuesday.

Re: on Wednesday July 08, 2026 @05:43PM (#48837808)
Knee-jerk dynamism and crowd-following has led to catastrophic risks and unreasonable costs to those who build and operate online systems. Orion is taking a more considered approach and is developing static content technology that blurs the traditional distinction in responsiveness between static and dynamic systems. I think Joe is onto something with this approach, and I am eager to see where he can take it. – Paul Vixie, Internet Pioneer
Re: on Sunday July 05, 2026 @03:47PM (#48797351)
What you want is bidirectional sync with git, so you can use Agentic AI locally and git push your changes.

What you want is Orion.

Re:Markdown Is Not LaTeX on Tuesday May 26, 2026 @10:41AM (#48280518)
Just use double-dollar for everything as the Editor.md developers originally introduced in 2015. Simple, painless, and intelligent.

Using a single-dollar is asinine.

Re:Markdown Is Not LaTeX on Tuesday May 26, 2026 @10:26AM (#48280300)
You are such a bore. Read the motivating preamble in Gruber's spec- that's the part the GFM standardization process stayed faithful to.

Up until Microsoft got involved.

Re:Markdown Is Not LaTeX on Tuesday May 26, 2026 @10:23AM (#48280277)
Boring, useless content. You must love the sound of your own voice when you read back the nonsequiturs you have offered in this comment section.
Re:Markdown Is Not LaTeX on Tuesday May 26, 2026 @10:05AM (#48280074)
Ok, sycophant
Re:Markdown Is Not LaTeX on Monday May 25, 2026 @06:08PM (#48272531)
There is absolutely no point to your post. We are discussing GFM, which is also linked to in the article you didn't read.
Re:Markdown Is Not LaTeX on Monday May 25, 2026 @02:30PM (#48270045)
Seven years ago? Who cares?
Re:Markdown Is Not LaTeX on Monday May 25, 2026 @07:39AM (#48265711)
Yawn.
Re:Markdown Is Not LaTeX on Sunday May 24, 2026 @07:54PM (#48262216)
They are not supported by GitHub’s GFM, and you are being incredibly bad faith about this fact.

If you are comfortable calling Markdown a futile exercise in avoiding proprietary control of a universal, simple document format for wide interoperability across natural languages, programming languages, and monopoly interests, then you and I are Microsoft vs Sun over Java in the 1990s.

Re:Markdown Is Not LaTeX on Sunday May 24, 2026 @06:43PM (#48261746)
Yawn. Nobody uses it to parse GFM unless they are over 60.
Re:Markdown Is Not LaTeX on Sunday May 24, 2026 @06:41PM (#48261736)
The spec is linked to in the article. Do you know how to click on a link, or do you use Braille?
Re:Markdown Is Not LaTeX on Sunday May 24, 2026 @06:33PM (#48261686)
Great, but Jupyter notebooks aren’t written in Markdown.

Next?

Re:Markdown Is Not LaTeX on Sunday May 24, 2026 @02:38PM (#48259859)
Updated again, and translated to 11 languages besides English.

Peace.

Re:Markdown Is Not LaTeX on Sunday May 24, 2026 @01:17PM (#48259144)
If it really was this simple GitHub would have publicized this spec instead of being intentionally vague and opaque about it.

But you know what’s best.

Re:Markdown Is Not LaTeX on Sunday May 24, 2026 @01:09PM (#48259074)
Naive, and cloistered. Not a great look. Maybe 5 people and their friends use Pandoc, so it doesn’t have to be robust.
Re:Markdown Is Not LaTeX on Sunday May 24, 2026 @12:57PM (#48258954)
Idiotic take. Clearly you didn’t click on the link.

Besides, I updated the article for clueless people like you, so give it another shot.

Re:Markdown Is Not LaTeX on Sunday May 24, 2026 @12:29PM (#48258651)
I’m an engineer, not an influencer.

Learn the difference by dealing with substance, not personability.

Re:Markdown Is Not LaTeX on Saturday May 23, 2026 @07:07PM (#48252494)
Besides, nobody gives a crap about Wikipedia file formats. They are not specs that others may implement independently.

GFM is a spec, not a vendor format.

Re:Markdown Is Not LaTeX on Saturday May 23, 2026 @06:52PM (#48252401)
Perhaps I should say syntax, but really how are you supposed to know what is meant when someone writes $1.50, $2.00 or $\text{more}$.
Re:Markdown Is Not LaTeX on Saturday May 23, 2026 @06:48PM (#48252365)
Wrong. As the article states, MathJax has nothing to do with Markdown. Never did. For that matter, neither did KaTeX. It just inteprets text some grammar parser delivers to it and delivers MathML.

The embrace and extend problem appears when you incorporate LaTeX’s grammar into Markdown.

Re:Markdown Is Not LaTeX on Saturday May 23, 2026 @06:30PM (#48252233)
I guess you qualify as one of those sycophants I spoke of towards the end.
Re:Free Orion Stem Blog on Friday April 12, 2024 @11:59PM (#40020379)
Secure SSG engine w/ Incremental Builds and online CMS markdown editor.

Built in KaTeX / Asymptote / Mermaid support.

Re:Apache HTTPd Server Developers Considered Harmful on Tuesday February 20, 2024 @12:55PM (#39444419)
Most customers are running it behind a proxy server as part of their middle-tier webapp stack, so this isn't even a tiny fraction of the existing user base.

And despite the decade-long warfare against its userbase by the community of glorified morticians at Apache HTTPd Server Project, it still has a growing customer-base!

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