[gindely]

(ot: should that be clueless^Whelpful, or is there some new convention I'm not aware of? ^ still means "ctrl" right?)

[castillar76]

It's an old Unix convention: ^W (Ctrl-w) would remove a word using the Emacs keybindings. So in place of striking out a word, you'd put ^W and the replacement, as you would when typing it out ("clueless...err, no, wait...ctrl-W...HELPFUL").

[Drdrdrq]

Gp missed "w".

[gkop]

The parent is using it to mean https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical_conjunction

[gindely]

If true, that would be logical and fair.

[koolba]

It’s not. I’m not that clever.

[bawolff]

Not quite, as i doubt exclusive or is meant here.

[mywittyname]

^ probably means super-script format in this context.

I'd probably say ~helpful~clueless instead though