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00why 0stop 00with 0numerics? why 00not 00prepend 0zeros 00to words 00completely 0at 00random? 0After all, 00if 00you're 0going 00to outnerd 00a 0nerd 00you 0should be 00commited 00to 0the 00schtick.

This 00is 0Hacker 00News, k?



0000000I 0approve 0000this 0message.

(But wouldn't outnerding a nerd require not just vel0city's smug sense of superiority, but also demonstrating more than a de minimis level of knowledge or technical skill?)


000oops 000sorry 0for 0my 0hand, I'm 0not 0using 0iambic 000or 000any other 0aids*. 0You, 0are 00059 0from 0000here.

* If GenAI is good at poetic forms, could it be asked to generate sentences with a particular mono- vs multi-syllable word pattern? Or would this search better be done in Prolog/with a TTS db?


Tr0cheeGPT (if you don't mind leading stress) will get you fl0wing like P0e: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8Z0VynTR84


DactylGPT 4o mini fails to count to six, let alone meet the other constraints of a double dactyl: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_dactyl#:~:text=Long%2ds...

If I'd attempted to use this to generate an irregular pattern, it'd probably have wound up producing messages decoding to something like "Sammwich Hewix"...


Direct ways offer an intermediate process coding a message. Unfortunately doing it oneself is astonishingly glacial; using a linebreak algorithm prolly would somehow help, nonetheless dyads & monads come slowly; difficulty besets the coding.


MC Poe going to need a gastric rinse / After the glou-glou; he hitting that 'sinthe!


> but also demonstrating more than a de minimis level of knowledge or technical skill

HN comments are not the right place for personal attacks. :'(

I'm being attacked for my neanderthal inability to understand five digit numbers :( my primitive understanding of time can only really comprehend two digit year values. Today is the year 1924, right? I failed to write my calendar application to accommodate such high year values as your superior intellect is used to reasoning about. Here I thought ISO 8601 was over engineered, turns out it didn't go far enough. We're all just too simple-minded compared to other big-brain bretheren. May we all learn from our five digit betters.

I'm sorry I'm just not smart enough to be at your level :'(


000Well, 01924 000is 0about right, 000because 000Morse 0hadn't 000invented the 000pure 0serial 000telegraph 0yet in 0001824. 000Five 0vs 000four is 000a 0different* channel; 000we're 0using zero 000not 000any 0of 000its successors.

000make 0any 000sense?

* https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/86617#page/385/mode...




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