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		robocat on March 11, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A word used only by Postgres developers For example quirks mode in Internet Explorer: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Document/co... `if (document.compatMode == "BackCompat") { // in Quirks mode }`

markstos on March 11, 2022 [–]

That’s using backcompat in source code, like “CompatMode”. Thankfully dictionaries aren’t full of all the variable names that exist in source code.

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