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Including “And. And. And. And. And.” in a Google doc causes it to crash

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Re: Including “And. And. And. And. And.” in a Google doc causes it to crash

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Post by JasonFruit »

dataflow wrote: post #197
JasonFruit wrote: post #196

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Honestly, while I might say such a sentence, I wouldn't allow myself to write it.

I'm curious what the closest sentence you would allow yourself to write would be.

I'd go with, "Someone I don't know came into this room and took everything," or even, "Someone came into this room. I don't know them, but they took everything." I'm not against a neuter pronoun where it's justified, but there was no need for "themselves" here, and it was worse than several alternatives.

Re: Including “And. And. And. And. And.” in a Google doc causes it to crash

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Post by marvin »

nephanth wrote: post #183
ManBlanket wrote: post #138

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I'm sure you're great. Nothing against you, but please don't do that. Just write what you mean if you can't handle some people misinterpreting a sarcastic remark. Let's think about this for a second. What's the point of sarcasm? If you have to tell people you're being sarcastic, are you still being sarcastic? Not sure what territory, "/s" blunders into, but I'm confident it's not sarcasm. It's something else that see…

Indicating sarcasm is not necessarily ruining it though. Look at IRL sarcasm, it will generally be accompanied with the right tone of voice and expression / body language that make its presence unequivocal. That doesn’t necessarily ruin it

The very best sarcasm is so perfectly balanced and indistinguishable from the real deal, that it will leave its audience wondering but not missing the potential for sarcasm. Then the person that delivered it will promptly move on, before the audience gets a chance to really think about it.

Re: Including “And. And. And. And. And.” in a Google doc causes it to crash

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Post by vl »

KMag wrote: post #123
Alex3917 wrote: post #96

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Probably just getting triggering excessive backtracking on some regex.

Ironic, from the authors of RE2. They know the correct way to implement regexes. Though, when I worked on Google's indexing system, some researchers were having machine learning generate regexes to run on every page in the visible web... and mis-implemented the feature to re-compile the regex to DFA (which re2 effectively lazily converts to NFA via memoization) for every single page load. The speed of the indexing sy…

But why it even happened?

Typically you run Flume over docjoins in your project’s quota. If you screw up, all that should happen is that your Flume job is out of quota.

Re: Including “And. And. And. And. And.” in a Google doc causes it to crash

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Post by quakeguy »

KMag wrote: post #187
danuker wrote: post #170

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Parent comment is onto something. You sound traumatized.

I was a couple years out of school, and felt a lot of responsibility. It wasn't really a big deal, but it didn't feel like it at the time.

What a great story nevertheless.

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Post by CaptainNegative »

justinpombrio wrote: post #169
AlexMuir wrote: post #144

Took me right back one of many detentions I served at school, when Mr B Swales set us the challenge of finding a grammatically correct English sentence with five ands in a row. The answer was as follows: The landlord of the "Dog and Partridge" pub commissioned a signwriter to letter a new board outside. On looking at the work, the landlord declared that he liked the colour but would prefer more spacing between Dog an…

Here's 21 in a row, by Martin Gardner: Wouldn’t the sentence ‘I want to put a hyphen between the words Fish and And and And and Chips in my Fish-And-Chips sign’ have been clearer if quotation marks had been placed before Fish, and between Fish and and, and and and And, and And and and, and and and And, and And and and, and and and Chips, as well as after Chips?

Can't one just keep recursing further?

Only with very careful intonation and appropriate pauses after a comma can someone read Gardner's above sentence aloud such that a listener can fully grok the connection between "and" and "and,", and "and," and "and", and "and" and "and", and "and" and "and", and "and" and "And,", and "And," and "and", and "and" and "And", and "And" and "and", and "and" and "and,", and "and," and "and", and "and" and "and", and "and" and "and", and "and" and "And,", and "And," and "and", and "and" and "And", and "And" and "and", and "and" and "and,", and "and," and "and", and "and" and "and", and "and" and "and".

(sentence due to Python 3).

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Post by loxias »

TMWNN wrote: post #150
kappuchino wrote: post #85

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try /s at the end of "offending" sentence, most people will look at it more kindly.

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Huh, that's confusing to me.

_Big_ Adams, Twain, Barry, Pratchett, and most things sardonic, sarcastic, and satiric right here, who's also "autistic AF" as the kids say.

"/s" is stupid, always has been. I'm not sure if sarcasm is sarcasm if it comes with metadata, but if you're gonna use metadata, use balanced tags!

Edit: I read the link, and laughed at it. If anything, I get into trouble using sarcasm /too/ often (esp. as a kid), I know a few other aspies like this too. I think all one can say on the topic is that if you're on the spectrum your "sarcasm center" might be poorly deficient OR pumped up into overdrive.

I know it's a long rant on this point but I really wish more people understood that with ASD sometimes these things manifest as a deficiency...but sometimes as the opposite of a deficiency (a surfeit?).

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Post by u2077 »

ManBlanket wrote: post #138
kappuchino wrote: post #85

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try /s at the end of "offending" sentence, most people will look at it more kindly.

I'm sure you're great. Nothing against you, but please don't do that. Just write what you mean if you can't handle some people misinterpreting a sarcastic remark. Let's think about this for a second. What's the point of sarcasm? If you have to tell people you're being sarcastic, are you still being sarcastic? Not sure what territory, "/s" blunders into, but I'm confident it's not sarcasm. It's something else that see…

Just as a side note, I thought /s meant serious. I think I’ve might’ve have seen it used in both contexts.
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