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by dang 7mo ago

ryandrake 7mo ago
[2020] and wow, what a title. It looks like someone was trying to decide between "How Wake-On-LAN works" and "How does Wake-On-LAN work" and "How do Wake-On-LANs work" and just picked a random combination of words from those choices.
- Aurornis 7mo ago
  English is not the author's primary language. I think they did a great job for writing in a secondary language.
  - ryandrake 7mo ago
    Yea, now I feel bad. It's just kind of funny that there are so many ways to get English either right or wrong, seemingly randomly.
- yyhhsj0521 7mo ago
  They did a much better job than a JavaScript developer writing Java.
- wat10000 7mo ago
  This sort of thing is quite common for non-native speakers. The fact that you can say "how does X work" and "how X works" but not "how does X works" is not particularly obvious, and easy to mix up.
- deleted 7mo ago
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- ErroneousBosh 7mo ago
  He's Norwegian and studied in Wales. How good are you at blogging in your third language? Ich? Nicht so gut, aber Ich kann veillicht ein bisschen posten auf Deutsch. Agus co dhiù, bha Beurla an dàrnan cànan agamsa. So if my posts in English (proper English, not North American "Simplified English") are a bit squint at times, blame that.
chungy 7mo ago
Somehow, the bad grammar gives something special by signifying an LLM didn't write it. Then again, an LLM could probably help clean up the grammar.
- jayd16 7mo ago
  I'm sure we'll start to get 'authentic' bad grammar LLMs that actually mussy up your grammar for that natural feeling.
  - dyauspitr 7mo ago
    You can do that now. Just ask it to use bad grammar and introduce spelling mistakes and it does.
- michaelbuckbee 7mo ago
  This is one of those slippery slope things where Grammarly did "just" Grammar and then slowly got into tone and perception and brand voice suggestions and now seems to more or less just want to shave everything down to be as bland as possible.
  - jerf 7mo ago
    All you have to do is prompt your AI with a writing sample. I generally give it something I wrote from my blog. It still doesn't write like I do and it seems to take more than that to get rid of the emdashes, but it at least kicks it out of "default LLM" and is generally an improvement.
    - stavros 7mo ago
      It's fine. We can't have it both ways. I prefer bad grammar to Claude blandness, so I think the author should just write how they write.
  - ErroneousBosh 7mo ago
    I tried using an LLM to help me write some stuff and it simply didn't sound like I'd written it - or, it did but in a kind of otherworldly way. The only way I can describe it is like when I was playing with LPC10 codecs (the 2400bps codec used in Speak'n'Spells, and other such 80s talking things). It didn't sound like me, it sounded like a Speak'n'Spell with my accent, if that makes sense. No? Okay, if not, if you want I could probably record another clip to show you.
havblue 7mo ago
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by dang 7mo ago

[stub for offtopicness]

[2020] and wow, what a title. It looks like someone was trying to decide between "How Wake-On-LAN works" and "How does Wake-On-LAN work" and "How do Wake-On-LANs work" and just picked a random combination of words from those choices.

Aurornis 7mo ago
English is not the author's primary language. I think they did a great job for writing in a secondary language.
- ryandrake 7mo ago
  Yea, now I feel bad. It's just kind of funny that there are so many ways to get English either right or wrong, seemingly randomly.
yyhhsj0521 7mo ago
They did a much better job than a JavaScript developer writing Java.
wat10000 7mo ago
This sort of thing is quite common for non-native speakers. The fact that you can say "how does X work" and "how X works" but not "how does X works" is not particularly obvious, and easy to mix up.
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ErroneousBosh 7mo ago
He's Norwegian and studied in Wales. How good are you at blogging in your third language? Ich? Nicht so gut, aber Ich kann veillicht ein bisschen posten auf Deutsch. Agus co dhiù, bha Beurla an dàrnan cànan agamsa. So if my posts in English (proper English, not North American "Simplified English") are a bit squint at times, blame that.

chungy 7mo ago

Somehow, the bad grammar gives something special by signifying an LLM didn't write it. Then again, an LLM could probably help clean up the grammar.

jayd16 7mo ago
I'm sure we'll start to get 'authentic' bad grammar LLMs that actually mussy up your grammar for that natural feeling.
- dyauspitr 7mo ago
  You can do that now. Just ask it to use bad grammar and introduce spelling mistakes and it does.
michaelbuckbee 7mo ago
This is one of those slippery slope things where Grammarly did "just" Grammar and then slowly got into tone and perception and brand voice suggestions and now seems to more or less just want to shave everything down to be as bland as possible.
- jerf 7mo ago
  All you have to do is prompt your AI with a writing sample. I generally give it something I wrote from my blog. It still doesn't write like I do and it seems to take more than that to get rid of the emdashes, but it at least kicks it out of "default LLM" and is generally an improvement.
  - stavros 7mo ago
    It's fine. We can't have it both ways. I prefer bad grammar to Claude blandness, so I think the author should just write how they write.
- ErroneousBosh 7mo ago
  I tried using an LLM to help me write some stuff and it simply didn't sound like I'd written it - or, it did but in a kind of otherworldly way. The only way I can describe it is like when I was playing with LPC10 codecs (the 2400bps codec used in Speak'n'Spells, and other such 80s talking things). It didn't sound like me, it sounded like a Speak'n'Spell with my accent, if that makes sense. No? Okay, if not, if you want I could probably record another clip to show you.

havblue 7mo ago

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