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		sestep 64 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Scripts I wrote that I use all the time For anyone else reading this comment who was confused because this seems like the opposite of what you'd expect about Nix: Hacker News ate the asterisks and turned them into italics.

fragmede 64 days ago [–]

use a backslash. \*

(had to use a double backslash to render that correctly)

latexr 64 days ago | [–]

Or two consecutive asterisks: ** becomes *

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