Post B6KgrjcCGjgfGKK4TA by Lili@donotsta.re
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 (DIR) Post #B6KYMzOWkfwNail160 by Rairii@labyrinth.zone
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       i saw that MIPS CE on N64 thing. was excited until i realised they used claude (claude is on one of the commits and "a blocked user has committed to this repo" doesn't show up?! i ended up realising something was up because there was an em-dash in a comment).at least the repo has documentation for interesting little endian mode hardware issues. including an unaligned uncached write thing that's eerily similar to what happens on GC/Wii.
       
 (DIR) Post #B6KacN94veVZVNzhpI by csilverman@mastodon.social
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       @Rairii Is the em-dash thing really a reliable tell? I use that all the time, (or space-hyphen-space in  code comments) 😬
       
 (DIR) Post #B6KacNKmE9rk5fT33o by Rairii@labyrinth.zone
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       @csilverman it was the first time i saw such a thing (an actual unicode em-dash? in a comment?), and somewhere else there was a ± (U+0081) in a comment too, basically i was like "what? surely that'd be actual effort to type?"
       
 (DIR) Post #B6KbZG2wxvxyZeCrey by wizzwizz4@fosstodon.org
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       @Rairii @csilverman ± is four keystrokes on my keyboard:• Hold Left Shift.• Press AltGr. (This combo is my Compose key.)• Press = (interpreted as +). Release Left Shift.• Press -, completing the "Compose + -" sequence, typing ±.But the style I use for comments is nothing like what I've seen from AI, and I too also be suspicious if I saw non-QWERTY characters in program source (unless I remembered typing them myself).
       
 (DIR) Post #B6KbZk0rYG7dVrScZU by jernej__s@infosec.exchange
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       @Rairii @csilverman I use en-dashed all the time, including in comments, but I also modified my keyboard layout to make them easy to type.
       
 (DIR) Post #B6KbyouwSCL7xneLjM by csilverman@mastodon.social
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       @jernej__s @Rairii It might be easier on Macs: Shift-Option-hyphen, or Opt-hyphen for en dashes. Also, part of my job is editorial work—checking text and making sure it matches our style guide—so I'm pretty used to those keyboard shortcuts at this point.I just get worried when I start hearing these "you can always tell AI by the fact that it uses X" because a lot of times, X is a convention used in professional writing. I come from an academic background, so I probably use a lot of AI tells.
       
 (DIR) Post #B6Kc2tufp1SAcETCwC by Rairii@labyrinth.zone
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       @csilverman @jernej__s it certainly made me look into the commit history and lo and behold, claude was there
       
 (DIR) Post #B6KcE4RD20eYRX0xiy by csilverman@mastodon.social
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       @Rairii @jernej__s yep, I'd imagine that settles it.(Also, I do wonder how Claude Shannon would feel about a future where the first thing computer people do when they see his name is curse and close the tab)
       
 (DIR) Post #B6KgrjcCGjgfGKK4TA by Lili@donotsta.re
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       @Rairii @csilverman Shift+Alt+9=± on Polish keyboard on Linux although I'd never use non-ASCII characters in code
       
 (DIR) Post #B6LmNb5EDdw0zssH2m by a@pdx.social
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       @Rairii @csilverman I have definitely put both — and ± in comments. Nice and easy on Plan 9. :-) But then, I occasionally forget other environments can’t handle things like naming the alpha channel α, for example. 🤣
       
 (DIR) Post #B7fLFxCu625nXm6hOK by ale_el_yoshi@mastodon.social
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       @Rairii This means that can also be possible to port MIPS Windows CE to the PS1, PS2 and PSP, with the PS2 also being better suited for a MIPS Windows NT port?
       
 (DIR) Post #B7fLFxNXSUbE4l5By4 by Rairii@labyrinth.zone
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       @ale_el_yoshi as I understand it, MIPS CE needs an MMU (and I don't think it supports R3000 either), which means no PS1 and no PSP