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Sleep paralysis demon (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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What does your sleep paralysis demon ask you?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

ACKSHUALLY ... markup languages do not produce a formatted document. They define semantic elements of the document. The formatting is done by the compiler (whatever it is in the individual context) based on styles defined by a styling language.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

That's true! Although many people use makeup to do styling using the default styles... Which is... Not great.

But regardless I think my point still holds, it's not providing instructions for a machine, it's the data the instructions act on. But the difference between data and instructions is a blurry one