submitted 2 years ago by AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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Context: The CIA intern picked the wrong tweet to unleash the bot farm on. It's totally natural to talk about Iran in some tweet about El Salvador.

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[-] replaceable@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

~~That shouldnt be possible, this mistake can only be made by humans, to computers these are completely different words~~

[-] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

Whomst among us has never forgotten to ensure that a query is case sensitive?

[-] replaceable@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

~~Its not case sensitivity a and á are just different letters to the computer~~

[-] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

That would be a great point, if "they will go" and "Iran" weren't both spelled with an á in Spanish.

They are exactly the same spelling.

[-] replaceable@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

I had no idea, i guess i will take the L then

[-] blobjim@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

depending on how you do string comparisons they can be. See Java's Collator class.

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