You Sound Like a Bot

Re:You Sound Like a Bot by GuB-42 on Friday February 16, 2024 @12:56PM (#39400541)

"xkdc 1:20,000" is totally wrong. It is not xkdc, it is xkcd, it is not 20,000, it is 10,000, and it is not a ratio, it is an absolute number. And it is not even about exclaiming commonly known facts but rather the opposite, that is people asking about facts that should be commonly known.

And yet, so many people understood the reference, me included, even ChatGPT got it. I always find it fascinating when a messages manages to pass well even though all of its individual parts are wrong.

Is there something deep about it, maybe? Probably not. Maybe we can turn that into some commonly known fact to tell the lucky ten thousand.

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Re:You Sound Like a Bot by MSFT_Edging on Friday February 16, 2024 @02:01PM (#39401481)

I was so mad typing I couldn't even get the "xkcd" part right. lol.

Basically what I was getting at, the other end of "don't make fun of someone for not knowing" is "Don't yell at people for saying commonly known facts because there's always someone who is finding out for the first time".

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