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if a tree structure is important for your data you can easily handle the problem by wrapping the data in a container and only showing the container to the user. probably a better solution anyway because it means that the computer can enforce good structure at the container boundary. who cares

however, there is one other domain where the concept of a “path” is relevant, other than the filesystem… and it’s kind of important…

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“kids these days don’t understand tree directory structures” i sleep :Eevee_neutral:

“that means they don’t understand URLs” i weep :Eevee_crying:

will they let me play this with the N64 controller they announced

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got THPS on switch because it's on sale and completing all the challenges except “score lots of points” because <del>i can’t</del><ins>that’s how i play Tony Hawk</ins>

today’s issue is “if the scrollbar is on the left instead of the right (because of a right‐to‐left directionality) and the background of the element changes, safari won’t repaint the part of the element underneath where the scrollbar would have been on the right‐hand side”

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a lot of safari’s painting operations assume a left‐to‐right top‐to‐bottom writing mode and simply fail to paint the correct part of the viewport if it isn’t that

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gdi safari stop having bugs with writing modes check your dang software

this is a subtoot of

people {
who: write;
their: css;
like: this!important;
it: takes;
up: so;
much: space;
and: distracts;
from: the(content);
which: "i came";
to: see;
}

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i showed up to read your webpage, not a thousand lines of CSS

today i learned that the Atom files i handwrote back in 2018 were wrong

my dream brain came up with the phrase “boths and bothers” which i now really feel like ought to mean something

THE NONDESIRING PROTAGONIST
THE FEMALE AGENT
SOCIAL EXPECTATIONS OF WOMEN
CLASS AND POWER
SUBCONSCIOUS V. INNER GODDESS
FIGHTING THE PATRIARCHY
CONSTANT ADVANCES: LIVING WITH
SEX V. DESIRE V. SEXUALITY
SEX AS A WEAPON

y’all i don’t think i’m gonna finish this boomer romance book

i don’t want to tear into some rando’s whole fanfiction concept but why would anybody decide that what pokémon really needs is “smarter Ash”

the pertinent RFCs are quite unambiguous that both extensions are valid

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KIBI “support .markdown anywhere you support .md you fools” Gô

feeling like an imposter, mostly on account of not being qualified or experienced in any way ♪

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