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Re:Type-safe, K-sortable, globally unique identifier inspire... by codeulike on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @03:06PM (#36511059)
If I and O are already excluded and you also exclude U that removes a lot of potential rude looking three letter combinations like *** and *** and *** and also the four letter ones like **** and **** and the dreaded ****. Of course because you have A then **** is still a possibility but very very unlikely
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Re:Type-safe, K-sortable, globally unique identifier inspire... by titanomachy on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @03:39PM (#36511533)
Wow I didn't know HN even had obscenity filters, and I've been here for many years.

Guess that's a credit to the general civility of the community.

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Re:Type-safe, K-sortable, globally unique identifier inspire... by rbera on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @03:45PM (#36511620)
That explains it, I was very confused by what I assumed was self-censoring, since the comment didn’t actually clarify anything. I wish there was an accepted way to disambiguate asterisks from server side filters.
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Re:Type-safe, K-sortable, globally unique identifier inspire... by macintux on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @03:50PM (#36511656)
I assumed this was a riff on the classic bash.org transcript.

http://www.bash.org/?244321

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Re:Type-safe, K-sortable, globally unique identifier inspire... by Aeolun on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @07:47PM (#36514371)
But we know there are no server side filters here. At least I never had any profanity censored by anything other than the Mk 1 brain.
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Re:Type-safe, K-sortable, globally unique identifier inspire... by taberiand on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @04:28PM (#36512132)
No obscenity filters, but there is a pretty good password filter I hear. For example, my password 'hunter2' will be all **** to you
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Re:Type-safe, K-sortable, globally unique identifier inspire... by 9dev on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @04:34PM (#36512217)
Isn’t it nice how some traditions do stick around. It’s been a while, Cthon98!
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Re:Type-safe, K-sortable, globally unique identifier inspire... by redler on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @08:51PM (#36514930)
Sadly, this is one of those things that, soon, if not now, only the olds will know about.
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Re:Type-safe, K-sortable, globally unique identifier inspire... by astrospective on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @10:31PM (#36515634)
Like telling people asking for game cheats to use Alt-F4.
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Re:Type-safe, K-sortable, globally unique identifier inspire... by AceJohnny2 on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @04:30PM (#36512156)
you accidentally the whole thing
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Re:Type-safe, K-sortable, globally unique identifier inspire... by EGreg on Thursday June 29, 2023 @01:53AM (#36516841)
I think the point
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