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We will never solve the Scunthorpe Problem.

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Hasn’t it been proven unsolvable?

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49 points

Impossible. There is always some mf named like cum-sock, smh

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28 points

some mf named like cum-sock

Excuse me? My family BUILT this country!

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Proven? I don’t think so. I don’t think there’s a way to devise a formal proof around it. But there’s a lot of evidence that, even if it’s technically solvable, we’re nowhere close.

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11 points

Have you tried adding a few more kilobytes of regex?

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I mean, you could just use a vaguely smarter filter. A tiny "L"LM might have different problems, but not this one.

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15 points

So a TLM?

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6 points

TJA suggests a TLM.

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6 points

Awww, it’s trying its best!

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Indeed; it definitely would show some promise. At that point, you’d run into the problem of needing to continually update its weighting and models to account for evolving language, but that’s probably not a completely unsolvable problem.

So maybe “never” is an exaggeration. As currently expressed, though, I think I can probably stand by my assertion.

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9 points

Scunthorpe Problem

If only one could buttassinate censorship…

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31 points

Don’t you mean buttbuttinate?

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23 points

bottombottominate

FTFY

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37 points

It’s a clbuttic

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3 points

Truly in a clbottom of its own

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4 points

It causes so much dawizard.

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4 points

there’s a very trivial solution that always works actually, it’s called “stop being a prude”

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18 points

Luckily the feck attribute is too obscure to be in the line of fire.

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The problem was named after an incident in 1996 in which AOL’s profanity filter prevented residents of the town of Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire, England, from creating accounts with AOL, because the town’s name contains the substring “cunt”.

haha

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What is a ‘charset’ in this depraved persons mind? A corset? Must be a mighty kinky corset.

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77 points

It’s replacing all instances of arse and ass with bottom…but doing so in about the most naïve way possible.

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8 points

Aah yeah, thanks!

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1 point

Someone needs to learn regular expressions.

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Nah too many false negatives. Vulgar language must be wholly extinguished

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29 points

It’s got an arse in there

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79 points

Holy shit, 10,000 commits because each change was individual (I’m assuming automated).

https://github.com/mrdoob/three.js/pull/29798

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oh god

yeah, no. haha

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And they’re all with different commit message:

“switched arse to bottom to create a more uplifting vibe”

“took arse out and put bottom in to keep my language warm and friendly”

“thought bottom would sound a lot nicer than arse, so I used it”

And so on…

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57 points

Those commit messages though 🤣

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43 points

They automated randomization of the commit messages? Wtf?

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Gotta appreciate the level of commitment on this commit…

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lol😁

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wtf it was real?

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