“I just chose words carefully”
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“I just chose words carefully”
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#2There's a similar anecdote Gillian Anderson recently revealed during an interview on the X-Files, saying Chris Carter had an OCD-like habit to write dialog to conform to certain text layout preferences (no widows[1]) in the script, which made for the show's distinctive style of dialog cadence.
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#3suckerpinch has a great video where he uses an LLM to do this same thing automatically
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#4I am filled with both a deep admiration and horror at this.
It's shockingly impressive.
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#5Ha, I quite enjoy doing this in comments or commit messages where practicable. But, that's just a few lines. :)
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#6suckerpinch has a great video where he uses an LLM to do this same thing automatically https://tom7.org/bovex/
No mention of Tom7's "Badness 0" by the author is the a crime!
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#7Ye gods! The fact that this was done by hand... I have no words.
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#8There's a similar anecdote Gillian Anderson recently revealed during an interview on the X-Files , saying Chris Carter had an OCD-like habit to write dialog to conform to certain text layout preferences (no widows[1]) in the script, which made for the show's distinctive style of dialog cadence. 1 = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widows_and_orphans
I just realized I have nearly always avoided widows and orphans because it felt bad to write that way.
I wonder if I was ever taught to write this way and forgot, but I feel like I just learned the terms for the first time.
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#9The Super Metroid guide is the kind of thing that AI will render obsolete, which makes me sad.
One of my favorite quotes is from Penn and Teller, "Sometimes magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect". AI has shifted that a bit.
But lots of technology has rendered formerly human-lead things obsolete, and I'm sure we'll find new ways to express creativity.
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#10Two definitions that I had to look up.
* Widow: a short final line of a paragraph that gets stranded at the top of the next page or column.
* Orphan: a first line of a paragraph stranded at the bottom of a page or column.