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Comment by cgijoe

3 months ago

Sorry, I am unfamiliar with ripgrep. Is this simply scanning for the string `_0x112fa8`? Could we do the same thing with normal grep -r?

yes. ripgrep just does it faster, is all.

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  • I feel like you were trying to help here, but anyone can do this for themselves. Providing information in this way sort of indicates that you don't believe that the person you're replying to can do it on their own, and for that reason it's considered rude.

    • I was, I was also seeing if the hackernews braintrust would freak out at AI much like reddit does, so it was sort of tongue-in-cheek experiment. And freak out they did.

    • I see what you mean, but I actually think there is a place for copy/pasting AI responses. I think of it as a kind of cache, surely a HN comment being served to n users means less resources used and faster access than if all n did their own AI query. But then of course you don’t get exactly your preference e.g. you might prefer a terser response than what is pasted here. Interesting to see how the etiquette around this plays out over time.

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    • Also, HN hates machine generated replies, especially the lengthy and overly verbose slop variety -- I think that probably eclipsed any perceived rudeness.