Definitely LLM. No humans write that many comments.

ChrisMarshallNY 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Ahem...

My code usually clocs at 50/50 (or thereabouts)[0]. Has, since my very first real engineering project (in 1987)[1]. I discuss in detail, here[2].

But one reason that I like LLMs, is that they help me to write even more documentation. I have found that I can instruct an LLM to revise my documentation, and make it even more effective.

[0] https://github.com/ChrisMarshallNY (My GH profile. Pretty much everything there, is like that -has, since long before LLMs were a broken rubber on the drug store shelf).

[1] https://littlegreenviper.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/TF30... (Downloads a PDF)

[2] https://littlegreenviper.com/leaving-a-legacy/

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petu 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Human could write that many comments to get enough base64 text for a design. Maybe to even get some of the highlighted characters in places they want (roughly equally spaced apart).

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ivolimmen 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Since LLM's are mimicking our code my guess we do...

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NamlchakKhandro 41 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I do

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

> No humans write that many comments.

Especially in a case like this, I would definitely write a lot of comments to aid in understanding, thus increasing trust so people would try it out and tinker with it.

	▲	boomboomsubban 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Plus the main point of this code is to have people look at it, the function is secondary to being an easter egg.

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Tiberium 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Honestly it's a bit of a shame. I checked and they could've shortened their base64 payload by 304 chars by removing all comments except the top two congratulatory ones, or by 524 if they removed those too.

	▲	OtherShrezzing 4 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Would they still get the highlighted "PEACE FOR ALL" text throughout the shortened string? It looks like the length, and presence of those characters, was an explicit design choice.
	▲	lemagedurage 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Maybe they added the comments to get a longer payload for the sake of the shirt's design. The comments can be more cute/awe inspiring for people who aren't as familiar with bash but like solving puzzles as well.
	▲	yborg 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		The HN optimizing T-shirt compiler is the next stage here :D
	▲	saidnooneever 5 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		im just sad it didnt render a qr code leading to malware :'). the different ways ppl look at obfuscated codes and scripts hah