I remember the confused used CD store clerk when I traded in Metallica's "Kill 'Em All" and purchased a copy of Metallica's "Kill 'Em All".
Some versions have two extra cover songs, Am I Evil and Blitzkrieg. The CD's identification number is identical on both, just to be extra confusing. I showed him, because of course he asked why I was picking up a CD I just traded in, and he was dumbfounded. He'd never seen anything like that.
> The The, so much for skipping articles like "A" or "The" I guess.
There was this very old meme image of someone searching for "The Who" on Google, and above the results it said "'The' is a common word and has been removed from your search query" / "'Who' is a common word and has been removed from your search query".
One of the common message board software (forget which one) by default ignores/blocks ALL search terms of 3 letters or less. Incredibly annoying on a technical forum that uses lots of acronyms.
Anything in a foreign language seems to be impenetrable to Google Play.
It's also got a goldfish brain so when you reject an incorrect guess it'll make the exact same guess next time. Doesn't seem hard with a an entire datacentre of ML servers to go "hmm, this was wrong 5 seconds ago, maybe it's still wrong now".
But then again this is how I imagine it works, so maybe its just waiting for the new previous query service to be released: https://youtube.com/watch?v=y8OnoxKotPQ
Back in the early to mid 00s I did quite a lot of work with R, the well known statistical software.
There were some pretty specific techniques I had to use to google how to achieve things with R at the time - basically knowing where the mailing list archives were and restricting my search to that domain. Some time later google started using quite a lot of R internally, and suddenly I no longer had that problem.
Another fairly high profile one is Taylor Swift re-recording all her old songs and re-releasing them. When someone asks Alexa to play "Love Story" should they play the one that gives more royalties to Taylor or to some music publisher? If someone wanted to rank songs by popularity, you probably shouldn't treat the versions as different. Etc, etc.
There's a piano piece [1] which is quite short but the original indication by the composer is to repeat it more than a thousand times[2], meaning performances take more than 24 hours when they happen, which is understandably very seldom.
There's also things like John Cage's "As Slow as Possible", which there is a performance of ongoing now. It started in 2001 and you may want to rush to catch the end of it because it finishes in the year 2640.
[1] Maybe by Ravel- my memory and a quick googling is failing me right now
[2] It's some special slightly arbitrary-sounding number like 2347 or something
Not sure if that fits, but maybe the piano piece is the Philip Glass album "Solo Piano", which is variation on the same base melody thorough the whole album?
He's not necessarily taking about this, but titles can also be very long. I think of the Sufjan Stevens song "The Black Hawk War, or, How to Demolish an Entire Civilization and Still Feel Good About Yourself in the Morning, or, We Apologize for the Inconvenience but You're Going to Have to Leave Now, or, 'I Have Fought the Big Knives and Will Continue to Fight Them Until They Are Off Our Lands!'" which taught me, as a young script kiddie, that FAT32 has a total path length limit of 255 characters.
Ever since I started listening to emma essex's music I have found just how half-baked Unicode handling is, even in current year.
Some of my favorite examples are:
"⎆", by "HHSU 𓃚 𝕮𝖆𝖒𝖇𝖎𝖚𝖒, 𝕏𝕪𝕝𝕖𝕞, 𝓗𝓮𝓪𝓻𝓽𝔀𝓸𝓸𝓭", from the album "𝅙𝅙" (U+1D159);
"♫♫♩♫‿♩ but it's 怒首領蜂 大往生";
"ｒｔｒｃ{（''»''）²２}：≞（''»''０１）；";
This got me to look up a UTF-8 to unicode code point command line tool, which it turns out is "uconv -x hex/unicode". The first one looks like mostly mathematical alphanumeric symbols:
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Some versions have two extra cover songs, Am I Evil and Blitzkrieg. The CD's identification number is identical on both, just to be extra confusing. I showed him, because of course he asked why I was picking up a CD I just traded in, and he was dumbfounded. He'd never seen anything like that.
There was this very old meme image of someone searching for "The Who" on Google, and above the results it said "'The' is a common word and has been removed from your search query" / "'Who' is a common word and has been removed from your search query".
It's also got a goldfish brain so when you reject an incorrect guess it'll make the exact same guess next time. Doesn't seem hard with a an entire datacentre of ML servers to go "hmm, this was wrong 5 seconds ago, maybe it's still wrong now".
But then again this is how I imagine it works, so maybe its just waiting for the new previous query service to be released: https://youtube.com/watch?v=y8OnoxKotPQ
There were some pretty specific techniques I had to use to google how to achieve things with R at the time - basically knowing where the mailing list archives were and restricting my search to that domain. Some time later google started using quite a lot of R internally, and suddenly I no longer had that problem.
The Big List of Naughty Strings is a list of strings which have a high probability of causing issues when used as user-input data.
I can recall having trouble searching for their album on Amazon in the day, and indeed it doesn’t seem any easier today.
Indeed it was unsearchable though. I had to buy the CD.
I guess it's only talking about recorded tracks, but 13 hours is rookie numbers[0]
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_Slow_as_Possible#Halberstad...
https://www.discogs.com/release/3580802-Bull-Of-Heaven-209-B...
They have a track that's 5.5years long but it's only been partially released:
https://www.discogs.com/release/3580806-Bull-Of-Heaven-210-L...
Though that's still ~13,000 hours!
in particular, artists releasing tracks, boasting: they refuse to listen to their own tracks?
...this is the start of a genre, perfectly coinciding with the proliferation of AI.
There's also things like John Cage's "As Slow as Possible", which there is a performance of ongoing now. It started in 2001 and you may want to rush to catch the end of it because it finishes in the year 2640.
[1] Maybe by Ravel- my memory and a quick googling is failing me right now
[2] It's some special slightly arbitrary-sounding number like 2347 or something
https://www.discogs.com/release/133498-MarcoV-Cdelmp3-Solari...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_Alphanumeric_Symb...
I wonder if anyone has used characters in the unicode private use area. That could have interesting results.