Misspellings are misspellings. They happen, nothing to get worked up about as long as you can decode what was said. But whatever, if it annoys you, it annoys you.
In this case the person went through the effort to make an image macro/meme, which still had a misspelling in it. Why would you go through all that effort without double checking the spelling? It reeks of laziness.
But my memory here, was someone was explaining it as a potential joke in a typical social fashion, where you’d expect people to have a bit of chuckle but know that’s not really the case.
The person I was replying to just said "woooosh" and then clarified that I was definitely missing a joke. They've since disappeared (probably because they realized they were wrong) but they were not engaging in the banter you describe; they were wrongly asserting that the spelling was intentional and that I missed the joke. The original poster of the meme then clarified that it was indeed a mistake.
It’s the kind of response that sucks the fun out the internet. It just teaches people, no-one will appreciate a bit of playing around and everything becomes a little more sterile.
I've been on the internet for over 30 years and conversations like this have been occurring since before my time here. I'm still having fun; if you can't have fun maybe you should log off for a bit.
Yeah except in the context of the post/article, it seems pretty far fetched for someone to be referring to the “scrapping” of books (assuming that’s what you meant; it’s strange that neither you nor the person who posted “whoosh” was willing to clearly state what the supposed joke was).
Misspellings annoy me, especially when they’re common like this one. Trying to explain away the misspelling as some kind of “joke” annoys me even more.
Thanks! Yeah I guess it might be hard for some people, but I speak some French and Spanish and it's not hard for me to remember to ¡use proper exclamation points in Spanish! or «use guillemets instead of quotation marks in French». This feels like the same sort of thing.
Yes, it’s relevant in this day and age, because it’s still incorrect to do it the other way (at least in English and with $£¥ and a couple others, as another commenter pointed out).
When I read “20$” my first thought is that the person writing it didn’t pay attention in elementary school.
And being lenient about it on the web leads to the behavior leaking into the real world on things like shop signs.
Don’t even get me started on people who (mostly IRL) write things like “0.99¢” which makes me want to give them a cent and tell them to keep the change.
It seems like maybe the commenters here thus far are missing the (obvious from the title) fact that this is not affiliated with Musk or “X” at all? I admire the aggressiveness of this move and I’ll be rooting for them.
Your reading comprehension leaves a lot to be desired.
I never said it was my only criterion, but working for a company that treats its workers like shit, is run by an asshole billionaire who’s actively a danger to society, and is full of toxic pricks like Andrew Bosworth, especially if you stick around after all of those things are publicly known, shows a staggering lack of judgment and good moral character. See also: OpenAI, Anthropic, SpaceX, Twitter, Tesla, Amazon, and Google (perhaps to a lesser extent).
I’m a staff engineer and routinely review resumes and conduct interviews. If you have Facebook on your resume as a position, especially any time in the last couple of years, it’s likely going to result in a No from me, dawg.
Not only do journalists do this all the time now, it’s even a thing within the companies themselves. I previously worked for a company that had been running for 10 years and had over 500 employees and close to $100MM in annual revenue. Every single meeting, one of the executives would use some form of “we’re still just a startup” as an excuse when asked tough questions.
This comes off as the writing of a teenager who’s just been caught and thinks they’re smarter than the adults who caught them. Which checks out because Sam Altman pretty much always acts like an entitled teenager despite being a grown-ass adult.
Just shut the hell up, and fight it out in court, like any competent lawyer will tell you.
There is no good reason to use Twitter, and there hasn’t been for years. Any reason to stay is overshadowed by the fact that by using it you’re helping a fascist billionaire chud destabilize governments around the world and indirectly murder thousands or millions of poor people.
In this case the person went through the effort to make an image macro/meme, which still had a misspelling in it. Why would you go through all that effort without double checking the spelling? It reeks of laziness.
The person I was replying to just said "woooosh" and then clarified that I was definitely missing a joke. They've since disappeared (probably because they realized they were wrong) but they were not engaging in the banter you describe; they were wrongly asserting that the spelling was intentional and that I missed the joke. The original poster of the meme then clarified that it was indeed a mistake.
I've been on the internet for over 30 years and conversations like this have been occurring since before my time here. I'm still having fun; if you can't have fun maybe you should log off for a bit.
Yeah except in the context of the post/article, it seems pretty far fetched for someone to be referring to the “scrapping” of books (assuming that’s what you meant; it’s strange that neither you nor the person who posted “whoosh” was willing to clearly state what the supposed joke was).
Misspellings annoy me, especially when they’re common like this one. Trying to explain away the misspelling as some kind of “joke” annoys me even more.
Thanks for clarifying! cc @aev_software@programming.dev
What was the joke?
We’re talking about AI bots scraping GitHub in this post. Nothing to do with books.
Are you claiming that “AI scrappers” is a valid term and not just an (all too common) misspelling? If so, I’ll need to see a source on that, please.
“A kid growing up today will never be smarter than AI” is depressing as fuck.
Also I have two kids and they’re both vastly smarter than “AI” in most ways.
The word is “scrapers,” as in to scrape.
Death knell.
Where are you from? In English it's always the case that you put the dollar sign before the number.
Thanks! Yeah I guess it might be hard for some people, but I speak some French and Spanish and it's not hard for me to remember to ¡use proper exclamation points in Spanish! or «use guillemets instead of quotation marks in French». This feels like the same sort of thing.
I understand that it’s different in other languages, but I often see this behavior from native US Americans who only speak English.
Yes, it’s relevant in this day and age, because it’s still incorrect to do it the other way (at least in English and with $£¥ and a couple others, as another commenter pointed out).
When I read “20$” my first thought is that the person writing it didn’t pay attention in elementary school.
And being lenient about it on the web leads to the behavior leaking into the real world on things like shop signs.
Don’t even get me started on people who (mostly IRL) write things like “0.99¢” which makes me want to give them a cent and tell them to keep the change.
Literally every year since the internet was created: the dollar sign goes before the number, my dude.
It seems like maybe the commenters here thus far are missing the (obvious from the title) fact that this is not affiliated with Musk or “X” at all? I admire the aggressiveness of this move and I’ll be rooting for them.
Your reading comprehension leaves a lot to be desired.
I never said it was my only criterion, but working for a company that treats its workers like shit, is run by an asshole billionaire who’s actively a danger to society, and is full of toxic pricks like Andrew Bosworth, especially if you stick around after all of those things are publicly known, shows a staggering lack of judgment and good moral character. See also: OpenAI, Anthropic, SpaceX, Twitter, Tesla, Amazon, and Google (perhaps to a lesser extent).
I’m a staff engineer and routinely review resumes and conduct interviews. If you have Facebook on your resume as a position, especially any time in the last couple of years, it’s likely going to result in a No from me, dawg.
Not only do journalists do this all the time now, it’s even a thing within the companies themselves. I previously worked for a company that had been running for 10 years and had over 500 employees and close to $100MM in annual revenue. Every single meeting, one of the executives would use some form of “we’re still just a startup” as an excuse when asked tough questions.
This comes off as the writing of a teenager who’s just been caught and thinks they’re smarter than the adults who caught them. Which checks out because Sam Altman pretty much always acts like an entitled teenager despite being a grown-ass adult.
Just shut the hell up, and fight it out in court, like any competent lawyer will tell you.
There is no good reason to use Twitter, and there hasn’t been for years. Any reason to stay is overshadowed by the fact that by using it you’re helping a fascist billionaire chud destabilize governments around the world and indirectly murder thousands or millions of poor people.