Maybe I’ve missed the intentions of markdown, but the ability to easily read the plain text version has always been the killer feature.

Rendering as html is a nice bonus.

I understand there are plenty of useful things to say “but what about…” to, like inline images, and I use them. But they still detract from what differentiated markdown in the first place.

The more of that you add, the more it could have been any document format.

I tried the example with my local post code and of course it didn’t work as I’m not in the US.

Or you end up with five different mediocre solutions where the best parts are randomly distributed amongst all five.

Does anyone actually work like this? Have they ever?

At the least it misses all the feedback loops between the stages. Even the actual waterfall model isn’t as linear as the one given as an example.

People are buying what these things facilitate (lights, tvs, air conditioning, etc in the case of electricity)

I think the AI folk have generally done a terrible job of connecting the dots to show people what they are actually getting.

It’s worth noting that some things mentioned above already existed before electricity. So people needed to be shown that electric light is in almost all ways better, cheaper, more convenient than existing alternatives.

I often think of Jack Vance’s “Eyes of the Overworld”. They hid the reality of a decaying world behind a fabulous facade.

- oversized

- completely lacking in style

- not technically capable for the role it finds itself in!

https://www.accc.gov.au/

And there are also separate bodies for each state.

Kenya believe it!

Anyway, I’m done here. Abyssinia.

… been looking for it for ages!