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Comment by AnthonyMouse

3 days ago

At which point we're back to, why is Microsoft acting like a government and treating their users like property of the crown instead of autonomous adult human beings who should be free to choose what software they want on their own PC?

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Barbing  3 days ago

all five letters of that answer are in your username :)

  • defrost  3 days ago

    Are you thinking of a single five letter word, two words of three and two letters, or an entire sentence that only uses 5 distinct letters?

    Consider being less cryptic, for the sake of those with English as a fourth language.

    • Barbing  2 days ago

      Sorry, that was yesterday's HN Wordle! (that's the New York Times-acquired wordplay game Wordle, quite the popular wordplay game--just joking that I created a word game of my own)

      Useless reflection to ignore below (forewarned!)

      I hesitated to post; in the end, the value of the comment was so low, I expected non-wordplay-fans to scroll past and lose nothing, so I left it in the hopes at least one person would find the answer themselves and be pleased about it.

      thanks

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    • berdario  3 days ago

      (also a non-native speaker here, mildly annoyed by the obscure joke from GP)

      Wordplay are exactly the kind of stuff that LLMs excel at, so I asked Gemini flash, and I got

      > snarky play on words by suggesting that the answer to AnthonyMouse's question is "Money."

      > Here is the breakdown of how they arrived at that:

      > The Username: AnthonyMouse

      > The Letters: The word "Money" can be formed using the letters found in M-o-n-t-h-o-n-y M-o-u-s-e

      (Gemini's answer is actually longer, I just kept the interesting bit)

      Amusingly, this answer exhibits a similar problem to the "how many r in raspberry" problem (it forgets how to spell correctly), since

      AnthonyMouse != M-o-n-t-h-o-n-y M-o-u-s-e

      But it seems that it got to the correct answer (or an incorrect but plausible :) ) despite that

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