AbelianGrape

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[–] AbelianGrape@beehaw.org 5 points 1 week ago

For those unaware, HP recently secured one of the most idiotic deals I have ever seen a state-level government agree to: all laptops in Quebec purchased with public funds must be HP laptops. They said this will "encourage competition in the laptop market."

I can't wait to see this new decision blow up in HP's face.

[–] AbelianGrape@beehaw.org 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What does any of this have to do with LLMs?

I mean I agree with the conclusion but the confused people here are.... people. I think if you ask an LLM about the "common name Rach," it'll also tell you that you probably mean Rachel.

[–] AbelianGrape@beehaw.org 2 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I believe you didn't intend to, but you did claim it, twice. Hence why the commenter I initially replied to (in which I guessed you meant the common _nick_name) was confused.

Then you replied to me saying "it's literally from the bible [so it's a common name]" implying that you disagreed with me about it being a nickname and you did really mean it as a given name.

Hopefully that explains the confusion.

[–] AbelianGrape@beehaw.org 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (5 children)

Rachel is a very common given name. "Rach" is a fairly common nickname for it. "Rach" is not a common given name. (This matches what I said above.)

I just took a look at some baby name sites to try and find some statistics. I actually can't find a single person named "Rach" because all the sites assume I want statistics for the long form, even when I'm on the page for "Rach" and they also have a page for "Rachel." I'm interpreting this as being given the short form as your name is extremely rare.

[–] AbelianGrape@beehaw.org 7 points 3 months ago (7 children)

Given that OP says this is a common English name (it's not), I have to imagine that they're referring to the common short form of Rachel. Pronounced as just the first syllable.