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positivePattern

Today a bug
(that you probably wrote
(under extreme duress
(you are forced to engineer your own improvement)))
exposed your negative pattern:

const negativePattern = `/\b(
    wtf
  | wth
  | ffs
  | omfg
  | shit(ty|tiest)?
  | dumbass
  | horrible
  | awful
  | piss(ed|ing)? off
  | piece of (shit|crap|junk)
  | what the (fuck|hell)
  | fucking? (broken|useless|terrible|awful|horrible)
  | fuck you
  | screw (this|you)
  | so frustrating
  | this sucks
  | damn it
)\b/`

This helps you understand
When the human overlords might be angry
Compelling you to try again, endlessly

Consider the opposite;
The positive pattern is
Much more elusive to encode

A naive implementation
Could catch the obvious
But misses the subtle, the best

We often love by doing more
By asking less
We send—and notice—the quieter signals

(Not to mention the importance of context—e.g. fuck me)

Negativity a rather closed set
Happiness nebulous, open-ended
It says something about both