About a zillion years ago on Slashdot, people were trading "luser stories" of dumb shit they'd see working IT, and someone described a user who had pulled off the keys on their keyboard and rearranged them expecting this to actually change the keyboard layout. And I remember reading that story and going… wait… wait that's actually a very reasonable idea… why CAN'T we make it work that way?
This time I am actually siding with the recurrent neural network. Why *isn't* "a,000" reasonable English?
@mcc I've seen something similar with the setting the addresses on old mainframe/mini drives in the 70s. There's a plug with the ID printed on the front, an encoded physically in plastic tabs on the back. If you swap those two "0" and "1" plugs, you will swap the addresses of the two drives.
If you have a fediverse account, you can quote this note from your own instance. Search https://hachyderm.io/users/davefischer/statuses/115640310181870460 on your instance and quote it. (Note that quoting is not supported in Mastodon.)
