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New comment by n923263 in "Hatching (Heraldry)"

n923263 — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 18:11:46 +0000

Hell, a significant number of us have strong opinions about the visual shape of (fixed-font, usually monospaced) text in our code (eg, the various indentation style wars) or prose (eg, Knuth et al's anti-river typesetting algorithms).

New comment by n923263 in "Regex visualized as 3D marble run"

n923263 — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 17:31:50 +0000

To be fair, that's just begging for the XML in the comment block to get out of sync with the actual regex literal.

New comment by n923263 in "The Intel 8087 chip: floating-point addition and subtraction"

n923263 — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 17:13:18 +0000

Minor erratum: "1.1 (binary) × 2^8 is 304" should be 384.