“This wouldn’t have happened if you had told me where you keep the f**king catnip, Susan!”
palordrolap
Some middle-aged guy on the Internet. Seen a lot of it, occasionally regurgitates it, trying to be amusing and informative.
Lurked Digg until v4. Commented on Reddit (same username) until it went full Musk.
Is on kbin.social but created this profile on kbin.run during a week-long outage.
Other Adjectives: Neurodivergent; Nerd; Broken; British; Ally; Leftish
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Cake day: June 4th, 2024
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Depends on the size of the company.
[I have told this story elsewhere before]
I thought I was so clever once. I taught a word filter about “th” thinking that would solve the problem, but it still got stuck on Scunthorpe. mfw.
Had to step through what it was doing. It had hit a rule that treated ‘oo’ the same as ‘u’ which, at least sound-wise, is valid for some words in some dialects. e.g. Consider “book”, which is identical to “buck” for many people. You can imagine why that might want to be caught.
To save you the head scratching, it had spotted the ‘c’ then a double-‘o’ then the ‘n’ and threw it out as containing a known racial slur.
The filter was for a random string generator so that it wouldn’t generate strings with bad words in them. Seemed like a good idea at the time.
Since it was unlikely that it was going to generate “Scunthorpe” anyway, the problem remained unfixed.
Managers might not like people but they don’t want to get rid of them. There’s no cheap thrill from micromanaging an AI.
There’s also a Fediverse plugin for WordPress if you already have a host. Caveat: I have only seen it on Fediverse directories. No idea whether it’s any good.