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  • Of course you can use XML that way, but it is unnecessarily verbose and complex because you have to make decisions, like, whether to store things as attributes or as nested elements.

    I stand by my statement that if you’re saving things to a file you should probably use XML, if you’re transferring data over a network you should probably use JSON.








  • Put your feet on the brake (right foot) and clutch (left foot), press both fully. Release the handbrake.

    Put the first gear or the reverse gear in, depending on the direction you want your car to go at first.

    Remove your right foot from the brake completely, the left one from the clutch at the same time very slowly until you can feel that the car is moving. When that happens, keep it in that position for 2 or 3 seconds, you will get a feeling for it over time. Then release the clutch completely.

    After you’ve released the brake, you can already slowly and carefully press the gas pedal if you want, that will cause the car to get moving faster than if you don’t.




  • No, it doesn’t.

    The Wikimedia projects are made by volunteers, almost none of the money goes to actually making the content. Some of it does go into keeping the servers running or into software development.

    And some of it goes into expanding an ever-increasing bureaucracy, which is tasked among other things with enforcing intransparent “global bans” or lighter sanctions against contributors the WMF doesn’t like (opinions of the editing community don’t matter at all on these). If they had less money, perhaps they would lay off some of their trust and safety team and not catch some people who are making useful contributions by evading global bans.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Guy_Macon/Wikipedia_has_Cancer

    There are so many more worthy free knowledge organizations to donate to: OpenStreetMap, FOSS projects (e.g. Software in the Public Interest), even Miraheze.