Minor updates to FAQ, thanks file

The FAQ has a better title for a question.

The thanks file was very slightly shortened.
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@@ -7118,27 +7118,20 @@ worked](faq.html#unsupported),
often **EXTREMELY HARD** (for certain
definitions of '`HARD`' :-) ), such as
[1988/phillipps](thanks-for-help.html#1988_phillipps),
[1992/vern](thanks-for-help.html#1992_vern),
[2001/anonymous](thanks-for-help.html#2001_anonymous),
[2004/burley](thanks-for-help.html#2004_burley) and
[2005/giljade](thanks-for-help.html#2005_giljade); fixing entries like
[1985/sicherman](thanks-for-help.html#1985_sicherman) and
[1986/wall](thanks-for-help.html#1986_wall) to
[2001/anonymous](thanks-for-help.html#2001_anonymous) and
[2004/burley](thanks-for-help.html#2004_burley); fixing entries like
[1985/sicherman](thanks-for-help.html#1985_sicherman) to
not require `-traditional-cpp`; fixing
entries like [1991/dds](thanks-for-help.html#1991_dds) to work with
[clang](faq.html#clang) (or, as in the case of
entries like [1991/dds](thanks-for-help.html#1991_dds) (or, as in the case of
[1989/westley](thanks-for-help.html#1989_westley), a true masterpiece in
obfuscation, to work as much as possible); porting entries like
obfuscation, as much as possible) to work with [clang](faq.html#clang); porting entries like
[1998/schweikh1](thanks-for-help.html#1998_schweikh1) to
[macOS](faq.html#macos_compile); fixing code like
[macOS](faq.html#macos_compile); porting entries like
[2001/herrmann2](thanks-for-help.html#2001_herrmann2) to work in [both 32-bit and
64-bit](faq.html#32bit); providing [alternate code](faq.html#alt_code) where useful/necessary;
improving all [Makefiles](#makefiles); writing [scripts](#try) to greatly simplify running many
improving all [Makefiles](#makefiles); writing [scripts](#try) to greatly simplify running many
of the entries; and other important fixes.
Cody also wrote the feature-rich [sgit](https://github.com/xexyl/sgit) to easily
run `sed(1)` on files in git repos which we sometimes use to help edit the website.
Cody Boone Ferguson also used one of his own tools to detect many dead links.
While the tool was not perfect it went a long way to uncover a good number of
bad, broken or otherwise invalid links. It was a very laborious task to copy and
@@ -7147,17 +7140,19 @@ Machine](https://web.archive.org) in an effort to try and find otherwise lost
content. A good number of links that now refer to something in the [Internet
Wayback Machine](https://web.archive.org) replace bad, broken, or otherwise
invalid links are thanks to Cody's efforts! Another tool he wrote detected
inconsistent award titles in the `README.md` files (used to generate the
inconsistent award titles in the `README.md` files (that we use to generate
`index.html` files) and the CSV file that he generated from our SQL file.
Cody also greatly improved the manifests and checked that the generated html
He also wrote the feature-rich [sgit](https://github.com/xexyl/sgit) to easily
run `sed(1)` on specified files under git that we sometimes use to edit the
website, greatly improved the manifests and checked that the generated html
files look good and are presentable, suggested CSS rules for
image responsiveness and other improvements, and he greatly improved the FAQ.
image responsiveness (and other CSS improvements) and he greatly improved the FAQ.
Cody also wrote some of the [website scripts](bin/index.html), improved and
bug fixed others, co-developed the [JSON parser and tools](https://github.com/xexyl/jparse) with
us, as we now make extensive use of JSON, and helped test and fix the submit
server for IOCCC28 and beyond.
server and mailing list for IOCCC28 and beyond.
**THANK YOU VERY MUCH** for your extensive efforts in helping improve the IOCCC
presentation of past IOCCC entries, fixing almost all entries that no