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A sequel to a meme from yesterday. in c/animemes@lemmy.ml
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Inside the Suspicion Machine (www.wired.com)
 

Obscure government algorithms are making life-changing decisions about millions of people around the world. Here, for the first time, we reveal how one of these systems works.

XKCD #2819: Pronunciation in c/xkcd@lemmy.world
[–] dot20@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

IIUC the problem is that they updated the pronunciation without updating the spelling: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Vowel_Shift

XKCD #2819: Pronunciation in c/xkcd@lemmy.world
Linux Best Practices in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
[–] dot20@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Eh, this is a classic joke by now. There's those jokes on the Windows side too (like the 'delete system32' one).