DanielLC comments on Log-normal Lamentations - Less Wrong

12 Post author: Thrasymachus 19 May 2015 09:12PM

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Comment author: DanielLC 19 May 2015 10:44:09PM 3 points [-]

Please get rid of the formatting. Copy it into notepad and then back or something.

Comment author: [deleted] 20 May 2015 10:12:20AM 2 points [-]

That is a good method. I use Notepad as an intermediate stop for every copy-paste, as for example Excel tends to put quirky invisible characters into fields that I don't want in a database.

Comment author: gjm 20 May 2015 10:42:48AM 1 point [-]

Many applications have a "paste just the text" function (sometimes behind an operation called "paste special" that allows other less-usual ways of pasting too). This may or may not actually be easier or better than going via a text editor.

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 22 May 2015 12:10:49PM 1 point [-]

Fixed.