The fact that terms like Aho-Corasick, PLDI, Go, etc. are properly capitalized, including if they begin sentences, but otherwise sentences are uncapitalized, makes me think it's an explicit LLM instruction "don't capitalize the start of sentences" rather than writing style.
replyNo, this is just what that writing style looks like. Names and acronyms are usually capitalized normally.
replyI keep being surprised by the magnitude of the disconnect between this place and the other circles of hell. I'd have thought the Venn diagram would have a lot more overlap.
Oh the venn diagram might be big, the HN population just has a lot of variance I think, and is less of a community per se. I don't doubt what you're saying, though in the grand scheme of things, I think the "too lazy to hit shift" population dwarfs any of these groups.
replyYeah, I can agree with the variance. Except that the "too lazy to hit shift" community is not something I would ever confuse with people writing long form articles about their regex engine research that they'll be presenting at PLDI.
replyThe confusion might be understandable for people who have never encountered this style before, but that's still a very uncharitable take about an otherwise pretty interesting article.
ChatGPT also loves Aho-Corasick and seems to overuse it as an optimization fall back idea. ChatGPT has suggested the algorithm to me but the code ended up slowing down a lot.
replyWhat's with this silly "all lower case" style lately?
replyJack Dorsey's layoff message last month did the same thing.
Is it some kind of "Prove you're not an AI by purposely writing like an idiot" or something?
not anti-capitalist, just a subtle preference away from capitalism
replyIt is human written and i've thoroughly went over every paragraph but i did use some help with wording. i suppose it does show now that you mention it
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