• the_river_cass [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    it's a bot war. someone got mad at the first bot and made a bot to tell it how shitty it is and then someone made a bot to tell the second one that the first is helpful sometimes.

    this has been happening for years and most subs just ban the bots to prevent the tidal wave of spam as they jerk each other off into infinity.

    • WoofWoof91 [comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      whoever came up with the "Hi, [post containing keyword], i'm dad." bot needs a slap
      i once saw the damn thing insert a 6 paragraph long post into itself

      • post_trains [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Hi, a spectre is haunting Europe — the spectre of communism. All the powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Pope and Tsar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police-spies. Where is the party in opposition that has not been decried as communistic by its opponents in power? Where is the opposition that has not hurled back the branding reproach of communism, against the more advanced opposition parties, as well as against its reactionary adversaries? Two things result from this fact: I’m dad.

        • the_river_cass [she/her]
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          4 years ago

          how do you find the end of the clause with regex? I can only think of ways to do it with a natural language parser and my brain literally won't tell me the dumb way to do it...

          • Owl [he/him]
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            4 years ago

            You look up whatever regex library you're using's eagerness/laziness settings and pay very careful attention, because no two regex systems are the same, and anyone who claims they are is a smug script kiddy.

            • the_river_cass [she/her]
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              4 years ago

              yea but <noun phrase> is a hard pattern to match for, whatever your laziness settings

                    • sysgen [none/use name,they/them]
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                      4 years ago

                      Now that has the be the most cursed shit I've heard in a while comrade.

                      Why not make it compile into befunge while we're at it?

                      No but more seriously compiling code into regex is not always possible and when it is possible it it tends to be an absolute nightmare. I think a basic parser would be more efficient to implement, even if it means coding it in Rust or C instead of python.

              • Owl [he/him]
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                4 years ago

                Oh god. I thought we were just going for the next word (chain of unicode letter characters, I know that's not actually correct all the time either). If you want to identify noun phrases... yeah don't use a regex. But also just don't get into a situation where you need to do that in the first place.

                • drowns [he/him]
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                  4 years ago

                  The person who got me into programming basically told me "don't get yourself into situations where you need regex, just find something else to do." While not really possible in a lot of cases, it does stand as good, practical advice.