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- snittySIGBOVIK papers are almost always a delightEDIT: From their 2026 publication>Permission to make digital or hard copies of portions of this work for personal use is granted; permission to make digital or hard copies of portions of this work for classroom use is also granted, but seems ill-advised
- gnabgibPopular in:2024 (515 points, 125 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=401970132021 (431 points, 165 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27929730
- layer8Tangentially related, the only way for a Java properties file to be invalid is if it contains an invalid Unicode escape sequence (“\u” not followed by four digits, and not preceded by an odd number of “\”).
- zenincognitoThe actual paper is also highly entertaining - https://www.mcmillen.dev/sigbovik/2019.pdf
- brisket_bronsonFigure 6 represents the string “gggijgziifiiffif”, which by pure coincidence happens to accurately represent the authors’ verbal reaction upon learning that “unquoted strings” were a feature intentionally included in the Perl language
- criemen> Apparently in the brave new world of neural nets, Anything Goes™Quite some foresight indeed!
- sadboi_fandangoJackson Pollock was writing perl code all along
- TMWNN