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Yet the top answer is "this is gibberish". Go figure.
by jojobas 3y ago
Yet the top answer is "this is gibberish". Go figure.
- spurgu 3y agoWell the top answer was written 3 days ago, the correct one 3 hours ago. Give it some time.
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- tylersmith 3y agoIt was just as confidently incorrect then as it is now.
- MiguelX413 3y agoI agree, why did they even say it if it was never correct?
- saagarjha 3y agoIt looks correct to me?
- MiguelX413 3y agoWell it wasn't, as established by the parent parent parent ... comment.
- saagarjha 3y agoI disagree with it.
- MiguelX413 3y agoYou disagree that the code belonged to MS-DOS 3.30 COMMAND.COM?
- saagarjha 3y agoNope. I just think that going “this seems like it was just some randomly chosen bit of real code” is an accurate description of the snippet.
- moron4hire 3y agoWelcome to StackExchange?
- kragen 3y agowell, it sort of is gibberish. it starts in the middle of a system call, omitting to state not only the system call's arguments but even which system call to invoke; that's no way to write a program
- raverbashing 3y agoYeah The code is not gibberish, but the way it was put there, missing information, etc, makes it so
- kragen 3y agoyeah, exactly
- vkaku 3y agoGo and upvote the real answer below that one.
- nicetryguy 3y ago> Yet the top answer is "this is gibberish" They're not wrong really. It is gibberish on it's own. We don't know where in memory that it starts or the places it is referencing in the jumps. If it were ASM source code those jumps would likely contain labels instead of just raw dogging memory locations. The fact that it just so happens to be from COMMAND.COM from MS-DOS 3 is a wonderful bit of detective work, but it doesn't make the snippet any less gibberish.
- pavel_lishin 3y agoBy that definition, any language I don't speak is gibberish, and yet if someone asked me "what does 'Je n'ai pas mangé depuis six jours' mean", replying that it's gibberish is obviously wrong.
- deanishe 3y agoSeems to me, your comment presumes a certain completeness on the part of the utterance/code snippet that isn't necessarily given.
- n6h6 3y agoThat's not really a good comparison, no. The code snippet is more comparable to a sentence fragment, which more often than not is "gibberish". For example, taken out of its original context, this sentence fragment from your comment is meaningless: "that definition, any language"
- SomeoneFromCA 3y agoNo it is not "gibberish". Gibberish would be a stream of invalid opcodes, zeros and FFs. The code is incomplete, true, but it easily deducable what it is doing. The only thing that looks strange is IRET, but not entirely misplaced.
- tetha 3y agoIsn't it stack overflow wisdom by now to always look for the second or third answer?
- SomeoneFromCA 3y agoIt is not on stackoverflow.
- account42 3y agostackexchange = stackoverflow
- pwdisswordfishc 3y agoIt's the same perverse FGITW mechanics though. Worse even, given that the RC site did not implement the change of unpinning accepted answers. Also it's regularly subject to herd voting from Hot Network Questions visitors.
- alecco 3y agoAnd likely will remain the "accepted" answer, unless who made the question comes bothers to come back to it. This is a huge problem with SO, the person making the question is not usually the most qualified to decide and they usually won't come back to check for further answers. One of many reasons I stopped answering a long time ago.
- bdhcuidbebe 3y agowell lets see what happens when they train a llm on all this ”knowledge”.. oh wait
- shawn_w 3y agoThat's why "accepted answer" isn't supposed to be treated as "best answer", but just "answer that helped the asker" (and, yeah, often it's the blind leading the blind). IIRC they recently changed the default sorting of answers to not always put the accepted one first to try to help with that common misconception.
- pwdisswordfishc 3y agoActually, the best answer was written by the question poster himself. Who is probably still not going to mark it as accepted out of a misguided sense of politeness.
- tejohnso 3y agoThey said they don't think their answer is best because the question was "What does it do" not, "Where is it from".
- pwdisswordfishc 3y agoThat's an excuse. The real reason is to avoid drama by withdrawing Internet points. Some people can be very salty about this.