(but seriously tho who counts like that, have y'all even heard of anyone who counts like that? lmfao)
It's for counting time.
Saying 'Mississippi' after each number gives you around one second per count.
When Microsoft pulled this shit with IE/Windows they lost an antitrust case and were ordered to be broken up. They got away with the breakup on appeal, but the loss haunted them and helped prevent further enshitification for years.
Somebody should remind Google of this.
Ironically, they only made it not-a-crime three months ago -
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/rough-sleeping-no-longer-a-crime-as-vagrancy-act-repealed
Cory Doctorow explains it quite well in his podcast. The 'innovation' is the replacement of the problem domain model (in earlier machine learning systems) with the brute force. This allows the billionaires/ruling-class/fascists to do away with troublesome experts (needed to create the model, but who may have 'ethics' and can say 'no') and just throw money at it.
Ahem. We pay the high price.
/Some/ Brits and Canadians like it. It's one of those 'marmite' products.
Sigh Survivorship Bias.
How could it not be Shane MacGowan ?
#! was, and still is, where it's at. There is even still a 32-bit x86 version.
🎵"Keep them dogies rollin'...
Claude Rains was the invisible man.🎵
Well all his children adore him, so what could go wrong ?
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