Popularity ≠ superiority. Proprietary text document formats is yet another proof of Microsoft’s crookedness—their subpar products only able to stay afloat by unethical anti-competitive behaviour.
Popularity ≠ superiority. Proprietary text document formats is yet another proof of Microsoft’s crookedness—their subpar products only able to stay afloat by unethical anti-competitive behaviour.
I use markdown for pretty much everything, and I agree with the overall notion of this rundown, but —
Yeah, maybe that’s not the gotcha the author thought it would be.
Markdown — so stupid simple even stochastic parrots can figure it out is a slogan that will age like milk.
And another great thing about Markdown: if the system doesn’t “support” it, it’s still totally readable. The formatting doesn’t get in the way of readability.
While true, doesn’t have anything to do with my comment?
Markdown was created in 2004 by John Gruber.
“LOL”, I guess?
Keeping in mind it’s an advertorial for their apps…
Not sure what they mean by “weird characters”, but chatbots add zero-width Unicode characters as a watermarking mechanism, and LLMs output their own tags to mark different sections.
(the “stochastic parrots” expression is already a contradiction, but whatever)