stan_rogers

9년 전discuss

Not without scheduled jobs (crons or the equivalent) or always-live processes, no. If you're leaning on a runtime the server owns and your own code is never invoked, you are (or your account is) not using any CPU time.

stan_rogers

12년 전discuss

That's sort of vestigial when you compare it to the old Industrial Arts track in Ontario high schools. As I recall, Grade 9 Electricity was a common course required for both the Electricity (what you'd need to know as an apprentice electrician) and Electronics (prep for a technician/technologist program at a College of Applied Arts and Technology) courses in grades 10-12, and both programs required additional courses in drafting and the basics in sheet metal, wordworking and machine shops as well (things you'd need to practically apply what you were taking in your core courses). Unfortunately, the way things were arranged meant that opting for the IA track in Grade 9 pretty much meant giving up university as an option since you'd have to give up the credits in things like history, geography and CanLit that were required at the grade 9 and 10 level for an OSSHGD (Grade 13 diploma). And there was a big gender divide as well, at least at the time. It's a damned shame that the only approach considered for fixing the system was to (mostly) dump it.

stan_rogers

13년 전discuss

Ships are usually pretty sane, at least y military standards. Officers' mail tends to be addressed to the wardroom (the Naval equivalent of the Officer's Mess). Other ranks' mail goes to their mess, which is generally designated by bulkhead number and port/starboard. (Rank s, of course, optional, and not expected on civvy mail.) The "street" is the ship's name, city is the home station (and where the mail is sorted and dispatched) and there is usually a separate postal code for each ship. So, for a fictional Canadian Able Seaman:

  Ralph Rackstraw
  19 Starboard,
  HMCS Pinafore,
  CFB Halifax, NS (, CANADA - optional)
  X1X 1X1

The system in Oz at least used to be similar. Which is great if you're actually posted to a vessel. That isn't always the case in Canada; we air types, the folks what flies and fixes the helicopters, are nominally "Air Force" and are seconded to ships for voyages only, remaining on squadron strength back at our home airfield, so unless one is vigilant about changing addresses every few weeks, important mail may be headed to your post box at the barracks while you're at see and to the ship while you're at home.

stan_rogers

14년 전discuss

It's not a matter of there being no work-around. MarkDown is meant to be as much for ease-of-use for the content creator/editor as it is to be a readable alternative text source. And HTML isn't always the desired output, so why should users have to know anything about HTML unless they're creating HTML?

stan_rogers

14년 전discuss

One word: poetry. Traditional break behaviour (new para) is great between stanzas/verses; not so much between lines. (It's also the primary reason why the tag still exists in HTML.)

stan_rogers

14년 전discuss

The primary reason is to provide for Chinese proper name marks (where underlining has a semantic meaning) and occasionally for misspellings (in English, we'd probably add the editorial text [sic]). As a decoration, it is useless, but there are circumstances where it has semantic meaning. (The and tags were promoted back to respectability for the same reasons, since using for text that is not stressed or for text that would traditionally be bolded without implying extra importance is just as semantically incorrect as using and for stress and importance would be. Arbitrary spans don't imply any semantic meaning. Where I would have used previously, I'd now use . The tag marks the text as special rather than just arbitrarily styled.)

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