> The source code consists of 660,000 words, which is 12% more words than the entire English edition of the novel War and Piece.

Typo, or is there a spoof I should go read?

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4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

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dotancohen 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Perhaps he was dictating.

Does it say anything else? Just 'Aaaarggghhhh'?

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Hamuko 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Doubt it considering that Daniel Stenberg is Swedish. English dictation when you speak English as a second language with an accent is quite annoying.

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Tistron 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Voice input works really well for people speaking English with a Swedish accent. I think the accent of most educated Swedes is mostly a case of prosody. For sure there are some sounds we say slightly differently than native English speakers. We often have some trouble with /s/ and /z/, but I don't know, "war and peace", I think that's easily understood.

Source: voice typing this with Swedish vocal chords, and only had to correct "different lives" to "differently", and add /[^\w\s]/.

	▲	aitchnyu 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Android voice input works with kids using both English and native words, here in India. The country runs schools in 25+ primary languages, each with dialects, so a TV/phone with voice input is more marvelous than the nitpicks discussed here.

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dotancohen 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I understand completely. You don't want to know what the machine produced, when I asked it for "a new display".

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iso1631 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

War and Peace is about 590,000 words. Tiny compared to the full Harry Potter collection (about 1 million words over the 7 books), but long for a single book.

	▲	perching_aix 4 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		They're referring to the typo in the title, "Piece" vs "Peace". I also thought they were contending the word count before noticing. Even remarked how I find this a weird metric, given that code is not prose [0], but then I deleted that once I picked up on what's going on. [0] comparing the output of `wc -w` with the word counts of books I'm reasonably sure will be super off edit: ran a calc, substituting out symbols (but not underscores), digits, and comments yields a 390K word count compared to the 660K cited. not excluding the comments yields 600K, so more than a third of all words in the sources are comments.
	▲	Accacin 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		The ten main Malazan books are 3.3 million words, apparently. No wonder it took me such a long time to get through them.