jonny (good kind)1d ago
It was only a matter of time before some AI-addled guy saw me quoting fucked up parts of the Claude code source, thought it was my code, and say it was just a skill issue and I just need to {prompting superstition} but it finally happened.
Show threadjonny (good kind)1d ago

man what is going on.

edit: since this post is spreading a bit further than I'm used to my posts spreading, I feel obliged to add: we have suspended this person for below racist comment and you may want to as well, and I am leaving this post up for moderation receipts purposes for now, but please do not go harass/brigade him.

Show threadjonny (good kind)1d ago
i usually try not to dunkpost but i also usually don't get called little buddy
Show threadjonny (good kind)1d ago
i have not yet blocked because this guy is saying that claude code must have been written by hand because it has comments in it and i am utterly fascinated that kinds of guys like this can even exist
Show threadCondor Puma Serpiente1d ago
@jonny That's the most old man shit I've ever read lmfao
Show threadLuca Hammer1d ago
@brad @jonny he even does the double space after punctuation stuff.
Show threaddraNgNon1d ago
@luca HEY, now, that's an independent axis @brad @jonny
Show threadLuca Hammer1d ago
@draNgNon @brad @jonny Not sure if I correctly interpreted your comment. To me, using double spaces in the Fediverse in 2026 indicates unwillingness to change. Classic old man behavior.
Show threadZack Weinberg1d ago
@luca @draNgNon @brad @jonny I'm not claiming to not be an old man here, but two spaces after a period was the style when I learned to type so that's what my fingers do when I'm not thinking about it and it's such a trivial thing that I'm not going to put in the effort to rewire my fingers.
Show threadNick1d ago
@zwol Same, except I have actually tried to stop (just because it is unnecessary when not in physical print), but it's really hard; it's just deeply ingrained in my typing reflexes. @luca @draNgNon @brad @jonny
Show threadZack Weinberg
@internic @luca @draNgNon @brad @jonny There's actual research demonstrating that having a little extra space after sentence-ending punctuation does help readability, but the computer ought to be taking care of that for you (serious typesetting engines generally do, but browsers don't; this is one of the several typesetting-related things I *wanted* to tackle during my brief time at Mozilla but got nowhere with because I was unable to locate the code that would need to be changed).
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Show threadNick1d ago
@zwol Right. On a computer my feeling is that I should indicate the semantics (a period followed by whitespace to indicate the end of the sentence), and then the layout should be determined separately (possibly with user-defined preferences in a browser). I know LaTeX will ignore multiple spaces after a period, and I actually thought HTML rendering generally ignored multiple spaces as well (unless you use the non-breaking space HTML entity or are inside a pre tag). @luca @draNgNon @brad @jonny