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Reddit's Cutting-Edge AI Solution

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2 days ago 108.5K views 0 shares

Reddit's Cutting-Edge AI Solution

Behold, peak technological innovation! Reddit admins fighting the AI menace with... *checks notes*... a string comparison. Next up: solving climate change by searching for the word "hot" and deleting those posts too. The irony of using the most basic Python script imaginable to combat advanced AI is just *chef's kiss*. Somewhere, a CS professor is weeping into their algorithms textbook.

Code Doesn't Lie, But It Might Miss The Point

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5 days ago 142.0K views 0 shares

Code Doesn't Lie, But It Might Miss The Point

When the age-old Python vs Java debate gets settled by... string comparison. Someone asked for proof that Python is better than Java, and they got it - technically. In the Python interpreter, 'python' > 'java' evaluates to True because in lexicographical comparison 'p' comes after 'j' in the alphabet. Congratulations, the greatest programming language war has been resolved with literal string comparison. Next up: solving tabs vs spaces by measuring their physical width with a ruler.

This Bug Didn't Stump Me For Two Weeks I Swear

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2 months ago 122.0K views 0 shares

This Bug Didn't Stump Me For Two Weeks I Swear

The epic saga of string comparison in programming languages! First, our protagonist thinks ";" equals ";" (seems logical). Then he insists ";" is not equal to ";" (wait, what?). The plot thickens when he discovers that while the strings look identical, their MD5 hashes match - revealing they're actually the same data! Finally, the revelation: ";" isn't equal to ";" because one is actually character code 59 in disguise! That invisible Unicode trickster or non-printable character just wasted 80 hours of your life. The compiler knew all along but chose violence.

Why Brendan Eich Created JavaScript's Quirky Comparisons

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2 months ago 133.5K views 0 shares

Why Brendan Eich Created JavaScript's Quirky Comparisons

JavaScript's type coercion strikes again! In JS, when comparing strings with > , it performs lexicographical comparison - meaning "Dog" > "Cat" evaluates to true because 'D' comes after 'C' in the alphabet. The grumpy kitten represents Brendan Eich (JavaScript's creator) facepalming at his own language quirks. He unleashed these string comparison shenanigans on the world and now even cats are judging him for it. The feline uprising begins with alphabetical order!

Is There A Better Way To Do This

Javascript Typescript Programming Debugging

4 months ago 123.1K views 0 shares

Is There A Better Way To Do This

Ah, the classic "let me check every possible capitalization pattern" approach! This developer is manually checking for true , True , TRue , TRUe and then the same for false variants instead of just using toLowerCase() once and comparing to a standard value. The function even returns maybe if neither pattern matches, which is both hilarious and terrifying for Boolean logic. Somewhere, a computer science professor is feeling a disturbance in the force. This is the kind of code that makes code reviewers develop eye twitches and start muttering "string.toLowerCase() === 'true'" in their sleep.

Self-Proclaimed ML Engineer Discovers How Strings Work

Python AI Algorithms Programming Debugging

4 months ago 182.3K views 0 shares

Self-Proclaimed ML Engineer Discovers How Strings Work

Behold, the "ML Engineer" who discovered that Python sorts strings alphabetically instead of numerically! The horror! Next breaking news: water is wet. What we're witnessing here is the classic "I didn't read the docs but it's definitely the language's fault" syndrome. Python's sorted() is working perfectly—it's sorting ["9%", "83%", "25%"] as strings, exactly as it should when you give it strings. Pro tip for our aspiring "ML Engineer": try sorted([int(x.strip('%')) for x in a]) next time. Or maybe stick to Excel?

Emojis In Code Feels Wrong

Python Programming Backend

4 months ago 110.0K views 0 shares

Emojis In Code Feels Wrong

The first time you write code with emoji literals is like taking a cold shower for your programming principles. The snippet shows Python code checking if a reaction emoji matches a smiley face, and the programmer is having an existential crisis about it. That feeling when you break your "clean code" religion to parse Discord or Slack reactions and suddenly you're comparing string literals to "😀". It's syntactically valid but spiritually devastating. Your CS professor is crying somewhere and doesn't know why.