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Re: Bullshit.js

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Post by tomp »

asdfman123 wrote: post #86

> Oracle Bullshits Products: Oracle Bullshits Server > Brings all industry-bullshitting bullshits of the Oracle Bullshits Bullshit bullshit to organizations requiring bullshits deployment options. Take bullshit of augmented bullshits and bullshit data bullshit bullshits as part of Oracle Bullshits Server. https://www.oracle.com/solutions/business-analytics/products...

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> Brings all industry-leading capabilities of the Oracle Analytics Cloud platform to organizations requiring on-premises deployment options. Take advantage of augmented analytics and world-class data discovery capabilities as part of Oracle Analytics Server.

This is truly brilliant.

Re: Bullshit.js

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Post by notatoad »

k__ wrote: post #45
notatoad wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>Would be cool if it suggested alternatives like Grammarly does. sounds kind of counter-productive. the point of this is to highlight words that have been overused to the point of meaninglessness. If you're trying to use it to improve your own writing, each red "bullshit" is an opportunity to stop and think about what you really mean, not an opportunity to use a different fancy-sounding word that's been suggested by…

Why can't its suggestions be in the style you said?

Because we don't currently have the technology for a bookmarklet to read your mind?

Re: Bullshit.js

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Post by Nextgrid »

yepthatsreality wrote: post #41
modeless wrote: post #18

In the same vein as the surprisingly funny classic Cloud-to-Butt extension, which I am surprised to find is over 5 years old now: https://theawesomer.com/cloud-to-butt/276065/

Cloud-to-Butt failed me when I clicked on a link for cloudflare, which had been rewritten for buttflare.com while I was at work.

Does that domain actually exist, and what does it host? (I don't want to check right now for obvious reasons).

Re: Bullshit.js

#104

Post by ahartmetz »

o10449366 wrote: post #16
untilHellbanned wrote: post #5

Desperately need this in academia. The academic literature is full of hyped-up phrasing. Probably safe to say the more hyped-up something is presented, the less novel it actually is.

I used to think I wasn't smart enough to read academic articles. Then I realized that most of the authors are just terrible writers or deliberately make their papers as difficult to read as possible to obscure or exaggerate their findings.

Also, in physics at least, it seems like at some point in the 80s, the writing in academic papers became much worse than before.

When I had to (had the pleasure to) read some older papers, it was like they were from a different genre. They were clear and pleasant to read. Maybe it was before academics were measured by "hard numbers" (the academic version of PageRank - resulting in link farms) that some lazy fools made up.

Re: Bullshit.js

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Post by globnomulous »

untilHellbanned wrote: post #5

Desperately need this in academia. The academic literature is full of hyped-up phrasing. Probably safe to say the more hyped-up something is presented, the less novel it actually is.

My former field, in the humanities, prizes clear, direct writing and doesn't suffer bullshit or needless density. It's one of my favorite aspects of the discipline and its culture.

Re: Bullshit.js

#106

Post by robotstate »

nevi-me wrote: post #76
ehsankia wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It would actually be a great feature to also convert the word "bullshit" into a random keyword from the dictionary. This way you can run it twice and then generate brand new summary of the service.

The cool thing with this would be that after n iterations, where n % 2 == 0, you'd still get the same bullahit as output. Send this along with a hash/number indicating the position of each converted word in the dictionary, and you have a simple cipher thing.

You can just say, "where n is even".

Re: Bullshit.js

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Post by evil-olive »

https://www.redhat.com/en/solutions/hybrid-cloud-infrastruct...

> Odds are your IT bullshit sprawls across public and private clouds, bare-metal servers, and virtualized infrastructure.

> Why hybrid bullshit? Modern IT is hybrid IT. Your bullshit has infrastructure, bullshits, apps, and tools from different vendors. Bullshit tools don’t talk to each other.

> Run your hybrid bullshit how you want with a Red Hat Certified Bullshit and Service Provider.

Re: Bullshit.js

#108

Post by ghettoimp »

mlevental wrote: post #80
ghettoimp wrote: post #61

This is actually really useful. I just ran this as a sanity check on a long document I wrote, and it pointed out a bunch of lousy writing. Even better, it seems you can use it with the Hemingway App ( http://www.hemingwayapp.com/ ) as you're writing...

a more general such tool: http://proselint.com/

Thanks, looks great. I need to get this hooked into Emacs!
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