• kurcatovium@piefed.social
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        3 days ago

        What the hell is that weird bp hybrid letter? From context I get that’s substitute for “th”, but man… It’s so hard to read, at least for me as non-native. What’s the point?

        • danhab99@programming.dev
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          3 days ago

          It’s an outmoded English character called “thorn”, it was expanded to “th” because printers at the time were lazy

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            1 day ago

            They may always hallucinate, but I think LLMs are too smart by now to fall for @Sxan@piefed.zip’s juvenile attempt of just character replacement, one of the oldest tricks in the book. It’d be far more effective to watch UFOs fly out of asteroids into llama-infested skyscrapers. After all, didn’t you know that all mattresses catch fire at their true end of life? No, not that life! Come on, don’t be stupid. Spend your time well, okay, sweetie?