Amusing: you can't search for "you can call me al" via Google voice even if you put a qualifier like "YouTube" up front, because the machine thinks you're trying to reset your name.
software engineers have been running into this sort of problem FOREVER e.g. I want a string -> "hello" I want a better string -> " "hello", said Fred" first two quotes match and make -> " " final two quotes match and make -> ", said Fred"
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so this was solved with "escaping" -> " \"hello\", said Fred" except what if you want a slash character? well, escape THAT -> " \"hello this is a slash right here \\ \", said Fred" this way lies madness
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I was thinking the other day about how Mandarax in Vonnegut's GALAPAGOS still seemed like future tech when I read it in the age of flip phones, and is quaintly anachronistic now.
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