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▲ nofunsir 9 hours ago

The plans have been on display in a cellar. Beware of the leopard.

▲bawolff 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

This isn't really applicable. The plans have been talked about for a while very publicly.

▲MBCook 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I don’t understand what this is supposed to mean.

▲NikolaNovak 9 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It's a hitchhiker guide to the galaxy reference, where sure, something is technically available but not clearly published and there are hoops even for those who know what they're looking for.

(No clue if it's applicable here, I'm not aware of this case, but I believe that's the reference if it helps :)

Edit : exact quote, as Arthur's house is about to be demolished for a highway bypass:

"But the plans were on display…”

“On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.”

“That’s the display department.”

“With a flashlight.”

“Ah, well, the lights had probably gone.”

“So had the stairs.”

“But look, you found the notice, didn’t you?”

“Yes,” said Arthur, “yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.

▲Dylan16807 9 hours ago | parent [-]

It's not at all applicable.

▲zygentoma 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I believe it's a reference to the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy – where the plans to remove the protagonists building to build a bypass road was hidden in this way.

▲fragmede 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

nofunsir is a stoichastic parrot, matching to a bit in Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, wherin the protagonist should have known to protest a plan to demolish his home where plans where clearly documented in a hard to find place that they could not have known about. It is not a good pattern match, because git has been discussing this in public on documented mailing lists for years.

▲nofunsir 8 hours ago | parent [-]

No I'm not. Real thumbs here. If anything this paragraph sounds like LLM slop

▲fragmede 8 hours ago | parent [-]

Run it through pangram if you want, I wrote it with my human brain. What I did not do, however, was parrot an inapplicable quote.

In what way has git's discussion of their move been hidden away in a metaphorical basement?

▲pcthrowaway 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

That comment was short enough that you'd really have to be naive to think a tool could reasonably detect if it was authored by an LLM.

Additionally, as someone who read Hitchiker's guide to the Galaxy ~3 decades ago, I managed to suspect it was a reference to it, even if the reference wasn't the most applicable

▲nofunsir 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I'm sure the cellar was also documented, Arthur eventually found it, did he not?

Mailing lists are basements in 2026

▲fragmede 8 hours ago | parent [-]

Since 1999, we've had Google to help people find things. True, a mailing list isn't an Instagram reel delivered directly to your face with audio and blasted out on Fox News, but if one was interested in the development of git, an LLM or a Google search would readily tell you about the existence of those mailing lists.