Markdown Now Has a UTI in Apple's Version 27 OSes

markx2•about 2 hours ago

I saw this in my feed reader this morning and my first thought was "How do you get a Urinary Tract Infection in an OS?"

nozzlegear•42 minutes ago

Same here, at first I thought Gruber was using it ironically since he doesn't seem very fond of his own creation. But no, it really is "UTI."

ghoulishly•about 2 hours ago

A dirty pipe

borghives•about 2 hours ago

There was an article in the top page yesterday complaining about acronyms. I can see its point now because UTI means something else in my family.

k310•38 minutes ago

I was married to a Registered Nurse. Enough said.

Who here remembers when MCI was myocardial infarction?

It became MI after, well, you know ...

justsomehnguy•12 minutes ago

Despite having nothing common with I thought about the same.

justsomehnguy•about 2 hours ago

I still hate it for needing a two line feeds to get a newline.

But yeah, while I didn't encounter any encoding problems with md it would help somewhat for everyone to expect Unicode.

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