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Re: Part of my code makes Copilot crash

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post #40

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I added "gender" (an IANA registered JWT claim) to my JWT payload schema and found Copilot will not provide any suggestions after that. Not on the same line, nor in the rest of the file. After removing the word gender entirely, it works again. https://www.iana.org/assignments/jwt/jwt.xhtml

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Oh look I found that person I always argue with on the internet that can't admit when they're wrong.

Re: Part of my code makes Copilot crash

#132
post #69

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Yeah I call BS. The "word filter" answer was selected as the valid answer by a third party (not OP).That's what the OP replied to another comment : > Heargo 24 days ago > Thanks, I'll try as soon as I get the problem again (somehow it's not bugged anymore...). Looks like it was just a temporary issue with no evidence that's it's due to a word filter.

FYI, there is in fact a bad word filter in GitHub Copilot. When it was first released, the list was stored client-side in obfuscated form and I had a lot of fun decoding it: https://twitter.com/moyix/status/1433254293352730628 The Register wrote about it too: https://www.theregister.com/2021/09/02/github_copilot_banned... They have since moved the bad word list server-side to prevent people from figuring out what's o…

I stand corrected. Impressive work!

Re: Part of my code makes Copilot crash

#133
post #48

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It's gonna come soon enough. The backlash is already mounting. I'm just honestly super exhausted by any of the insanity right now, not even only regarding this topic. It's just complete black-and-white thinking these days, no matter about what it is. Extremes only. The stronger your opinion the better, how else would you feel like you exist? Almost no one with a rational, centered overarching perspective. Twenty year…

> The backlash is already mounting. Is it? To me it feels like it's getting worse and worse, but that might be my bubble.

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Re: Part of my code makes Copilot crash

#135
post #81

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Regardless of what Copilot suggested for "gender", it would've offended someone , and I think that's what Microsoft wants to avoid. Not even woke so much as it is trying to avoid potential controversies.

You would think they would just avoid adjusting this, right?

If they don't "adjust" this, each user gets a random-ish result from all the code out there-- depending on mostly-unrelated context, it suggests a lot of genders or just 2.

In turn, you can guarantee both groups of people end up upset.

Re: Part of my code makes Copilot crash

#136
post #48

I hope to god that one day we will all see this nonsense for what it is: absurdly hilarious.

It's gonna come soon enough. The backlash is already mounting. I'm just honestly super exhausted by any of the insanity right now, not even only regarding this topic. It's just complete black-and-white thinking these days, no matter about what it is. Extremes only. The stronger your opinion the better, how else would you feel like you exist? Almost no one with a rational, centered overarching perspective. Twenty year…

I feel like it's only going to get worse with social media.

Twitter is so idiotically designed that it just makes things worse and worse.

With Twitter, they don't distinguish between positive engagement (retweets, positive replies) and negative engagement (critical quote tweets, critical replies)... their algorithm just stupidly sees the engagement and amplifies the tweet.

There's no wonder that a lot of the most extremist politicians (on the right and left) built their followings on Twitter.

I don't mean to make it political, but the last president of the united states was able to build a massive following almost exclusively through one political platform... (which he later got banned from)

For some reason, YouTube's decided to jump on the same bandwagon by removing dislikes (if there is no feedback from dislikes, then people will stop clicking them).

Re: Part of my code makes Copilot crash

#137

Has it been somehow confirmed that this was the cause of the issue or was it just that one guy's speculation? I don't see anything that confirmed this as the cause. Am I missing something in the linked content?

There's a whole bad word list meant to suppress output. It's stored client side.

https://twitter.com/moyix/status/1433254293352730628?t=NIpgb...

Re: Part of my code makes Copilot crash

#139
post #48

I hope to god that one day we will all see this nonsense for what it is: absurdly hilarious.

It's gonna come soon enough. The backlash is already mounting. I'm just honestly super exhausted by any of the insanity right now, not even only regarding this topic. It's just complete black-and-white thinking these days, no matter about what it is. Extremes only. The stronger your opinion the better, how else would you feel like you exist? Almost no one with a rational, centered overarching perspective. Twenty year…

To be honest, I think most people aren't at the extreme but the most extreme voices are amplified so loudly that it seems like there are many more of them than there actually are. Unfortunately, corporations and politicians are placating these amplified voices instead of the majority of reasonable people - much to their own detriment and the detriment of of society at large.
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