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A comment on 93% of Paint Splatters Are Valid Perl Programs (2019).

Re:93% of Paint Splatters Are Valid Perl Programs (2019) by psnehanshu on Thursday November 12, 2026 @10:13AM (#50468689)
Why is this OCR program evaluation paint splatter as letters?
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Re:93% of Paint Splatters Are Valid Perl Programs (2019) by JK-Swizzle on Thursday November 12, 2026 @12:09PM (#50470615)
I’m with this guy. When are we adding every possible paint splatter to Unicode so that OCR can be more accurate in situations like this?
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Re:93% of Paint Splatters Are Valid Perl Programs (2019) by ktm5j on Thursday November 12, 2026 @01:38PM (#50472026)
Yeah, I feel like this is more about 90% of random strings being valid perl programs.. the paint splatters have nothing to do with it.
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