Let's fix the RSS feed so it doesn't re-post articles every time their titles are edited (forgot the hyphen in "re-post")
post by Postal_Scale · 2012-01-28T22:17:01.927Z · LW · GW · Legacy · 10 commentsLorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
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comment by Dorikka · 2012-01-29T00:51:34.601Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
This looks like it is in Latin. Why?
Google Translate does not appear to help.
Replies from: endoself, Anubhav↑ comment by endoself · 2012-01-29T01:00:51.715Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
This is a standard piece of filler text. Either Postal_Scale conveyed all the information they intended in the title, but was not able to submit a post without a body, or they forgot to add in the actual text before submitting.
Replies from: Dorikka, RobertLumley↑ comment by Dorikka · 2012-01-29T03:41:26.617Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Oh. How do you know this? Does the Latin say something that makes it obvious, or is it obvious because it's posted in a language many of us don't know, or is it nonsense, and that's how you know it's just filler?
In other words, why are you less confused that I am?
Replies from: VincentYu, Vladimir_Golovin↑ comment by Vladimir_Golovin · 2012-01-29T06:00:15.802Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Anyone who worked as a print or web designer will recognize it instantly. I can recite its first five words from memory. It's just a dummy text you put into your page layouts to visually test them.
↑ comment by RobertLumley · 2012-01-29T13:40:17.130Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
I was confused as well and had downvoted because of it. Thanks for explaining.
comment by billswift · 2012-01-29T03:18:17.920Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Yes. I am getting really tired of some posts appearing in my RSS reader two or three times.
ADDED: While discussing problems, could someone do something about the fact that when I right click on a PDF link and then "Save As", FF tries to save "click.html", rather than the pdf, about a third to half the time.
comment by kpreid · 2012-02-04T03:35:32.739Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
RSS fundamentally has this problem, because it does not identify posts uniquely, so RSS readers have to guess at what new things are the same as old things. (The URL is usually a sufficient key, but that doesn't work here because LW changes the non-lookup-key "slug" when the post changes.) LW should switch to using the Atom feed format which has a field for unique post identifiers.