lharding comments on Rationality Quotes October 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: lharding 03 October 2013 08:40:08PM -1 points [-]

In the land of the blind, the one eyed man is king^Wa dangerous heretic^W^W^Wangry that no one cares about visual design.

[where ^W represents the EMACS "delete word" command and my annoyance at LW's lack of a strikethrough formatting option]

Comment author: somervta 05 October 2013 10:40:48PM 3 points [-]

In the land of the blind, the one eyed man is k̶i̶n̶g a̶ ̶d̶a̶n̶g̶e̶r̶o̶u̶s̶ ̶h̶e̶r̶e̶t̶i̶c̶ angry that no one cares about visual design.

That what you meant?

Comment author: [deleted] 13 October 2013 01:36:32AM *  0 points [-]

The standard digraph visualization for U+0008 BACKSPACE is ^H.

Comment author: fubarobfusco 13 October 2013 03:37:36AM 0 points [-]

Those aren't backspaces.

Comment author: [deleted] 13 October 2013 09:30:19AM 1 point [-]

I'll concede the point that I forgot the unicode hex code.

However, I have just now checked in Vim, less, wikipedia.org/wiki/Backspace#^H and The jargon file (text search for ^H).

Comment author: MugaSofer 13 October 2013 03:48:19PM *  -1 points [-]

No, those literally aren't backspaces. They're

the EMACS "delete word" command

according to the OP.

ETA: ... and according to the Wikipedia article you cited as well. So there's that.

Comment author: sixes_and_sevens 05 October 2013 04:01:35PM 0 points [-]

I've taken to using <strike>not very subtle subtext</strike>.

Comment author: lharding 03 October 2013 08:42:02PM 0 points [-]

I suppose modifying a proverb thus may count as quoting myself, in which case I offer to retract this one upon nonzero level of consensus that I've broken the rules.

Comment author: Oscar_Cunningham 03 October 2013 09:14:28PM 9 points [-]

I think you're breaking the rules.

Comment author: [deleted] 04 October 2013 03:43:19AM 1 point [-]

You could post that in the Best 15 Words thread instead.

Comment author: shminux 03 October 2013 09:20:55PM *  -1 points [-]

Huh, I expected ~~strikethrough~~ to work like it does on Reddit, but alas...

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 04 October 2013 02:35:03AM 1 point [-]

Use this.