This would get a discount from me too tbh
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BJ1G4Y
Y should be excluded as a vowel
But only sometimes
The problem is, you can't easily define "sometimes" - is
YinM1RY4Ma vowel? It's WAY easier to write a program that uses the23456789BCDFGHJKLMNPQRSTVWXZalphabet to generate base-28 codes than one that excludes all possibilities where an English-speaking human could possibly interpret theYas a vowel.Yes that's true but this was a joke about how linguistically Y is only sometimes a vowel. The idea of having a program randomly decide when to include and exclude it is funny to me.
"Not randomly," the company's underutilized AI expert rises from his chair, "that's a job for me!"
$30,000 later, the system that rejects would-be vowels with "99.5% accuracy" is unveiled. Two weeks after that, a customer is given the code
69BJ4KKK88and shares it on social media.