I would prefer an announcement and complete hiatus - as much as I like the comic, if the author suffers a stroke from overwork there will be no updates ever, as opposed to a month or two.
Eventually I just resorted to Matlab instead of typing and copy-pasting - if you configure the output function correctly, the result will always have correct format.
#1441401, I think they were referencing Odin from "Order of the Stick":
here's the line: https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0999.html
and here's the mind behind this line: https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1145.html
#1443184, more like Human Instrumentality happening.
Also, I think Olaf has already factored in JeCLU's powers and figured out how to deal with him anyway. Last time he was caught off-guard simply due to lack of intel.