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submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

This would get a discount from me too tbh

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The problem is, you can't easily define "sometimes" - is Y in M1RY4M a vowel? It's WAY easier to write a program that uses the 23456789BCDFGHJKLMNPQRSTVWXZ alphabet to generate base-28 codes than one that excludes all possibilities where an English-speaking human could possibly interpret the Y as a vowel.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yes that's true but this was a joke about how linguistically Y is only sometimes a vowel. The idea of having a program randomly decide when to include and exclude it is funny to me.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

having a program randomly decide when to include it

"Not randomly," the company's underutilized AI expert rises from his chair, "that's a job for me!"

$30,000 later, the system that rejects would-be vowels with "99.5% accuracy" is unveiled. Two weeks after that, a customer is given the code 69BJ4KKK88 and shares it on social media.