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[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 6 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Yeah this is about the comprehension level I'd expect from a typical Comm major lol.

[–] spacemanspiffy@lemmy.world 36 points 14 hours ago (1 children)
[–] joyjoy@lemmy.zip 21 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

Good news! It's a suppository.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 4 points 9 hours ago (1 children)
[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)
[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

Soppozuuuuuuuuuu !!!

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 2 points 8 hours ago

The suppository of all knowledge

[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 38 points 16 hours ago

It doesn't matter. None of faux news viewers can read.

[–] kamen@lemmy.world 23 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Why is the headline in quotes?

[–] Colonel_Panic_@lemm.ee 21 points 16 hours ago

Because of "reasons"

[–] blarghly@lemmy.world 6 points 15 hours ago (5 children)

Because trashy people never saw Austin Powers and updated their use of quotation marks to denote sarcasm.

Quotation marks were historically used to add emphasis to text, the way asterisks are used today. Old people who refuse to change and don't realize their way of writing is actively making fun of themselves still use them this way. These are also the people who watch Fox.

[–] sfbing@lemmy.world 12 points 12 hours ago

Quotation marks we're historically used ...

Meh. I am in my late sixties, and that was never proper usage. These people were merely always illiterate.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 4 points 12 hours ago

Scare quotes are used informally, but it's not proper usage like a "news" channel should be doing. Which, fair enough, it's Fox "News." But it's already larger text and all caps - why is more emphasis necessary?

[–] BatmanAoD@programming.dev 4 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

"Scare quotes" definitely precede Austin Powers, though that may have spurred a rise in popularity of the usage. (Also, "trashy people never saw Austin Powers" is honestly a pretty weird statement, IMO.)

That said, in this case, arguably the quotes are appropriate, because "the github dictionary" isn't something that happened (i.e. a headline), but a thing they've made up.

[–] mattyroses@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 12 hours ago

Yeah, there was a whole Chris Farley bit with them. So you can figure where the end point of that is.

Like most stuff with Mike Meyers, by the time he included it, it was kind of cringe.

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[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 94 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Fox News viewers would need the concept of "sharing" explained to them first.

[–] irelephant@programming.dev 44 points 18 hours ago (4 children)

Sharing is a type of communism, of course.

[–] Colonel_Panic_@lemm.ee 13 points 16 hours ago

Get that damn code Communism out of my country! No more Forking or Cloning! No more importing libraries either! We're going to build a big beautiful firewall and export all the unsigned binaries. Make Assembly Great Again! And no terminating projects because apps begin at compilation.

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[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 14 hours ago

Woah. Things were different, at least 12 years ago.

[–] notoftenthat@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 hours ago
[–] drmoose@lemmy.world 40 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

And people say LLMs will degrade our collective knowledge lol

[–] mEEGal@lemmy.world 7 points 15 hours ago

they both will

[–] Xerxos@lemmy.ml 43 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

What the hell? If they just asked ChatGPT it would have been much better:

  • Repository: A folder of project files on the internet.

  • Fork: Your own copy of that folder to make changes.

  • Pull Request: A way to ask, “Can my changes go back into the original folder?”

[–] lud@lemm.ee 31 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

To be fair ChatGPT didn't exist 12 years ago.

[–] Xerxos@lemmy.ml 15 points 20 hours ago

Oh yeah, I overlooked that detail.

[–] gadfly1999@lemm.ee 5 points 16 hours ago

Spell-check did though.

[–] YesButActuallyMaybe@lemmy.ca 5 points 15 hours ago

*reposortory(sic)

[–] FedericoSchonborn@beehaw.org 11 points 21 hours ago (4 children)

The Fox News intern probably didn't need a ton of water and the energy of a small country just to be trained, though.

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[–] Coolkat@slrpnk.net 22 points 21 hours ago

Issue: Form of insult common to this community

[–] Mwa@thelemmy.club 22 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

I wonder More why was github on tv

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[–] okmko@lemmy.world 32 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

If these were answers for a high school test it would get a D or something for correctness. I can't believe an adult, a journalist no less, could be so off.

[–] irelephant@programming.dev 12 points 21 hours ago

Its a bit charitable to call fox news journalists.

[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 66 points 1 day ago

This physically hurts me.

[–] etchinghillside@reddthat.com 230 points 1 day ago (8 children)
[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

When you're on the information superhighway, in cyberspace, sometimes you want to send someone some information (datums). Sometimes an electronic mail is too formal or cumbersome for that, so you instead send them digital text messages, basically cybernetic telegrams, called e-notes.

[–] etchinghillside@reddthat.com 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

This comment has too many high syllable words in it. Could you please condense this down into an e-note?

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 hours ago

e-note be like ~~telegram~~ ~~memorandum~~ memo but not on paper, on ~~computer~~ magic blinky box.

[–] irelephant@programming.dev 215 points 1 day ago (16 children)

A pull-request to forked your reposotory obviously.

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[–] drkt@scribe.disroot.org 207 points 1 day ago (15 children)
[–] isaaclyman@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

Pronounced REE-poe-SOH-tuh-ree

[–] dullbananas@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 hours ago

When i was around 12 years old i thought it was "respiratory"

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[–] jimmux@programming.dev 77 points 1 day ago

I'm surprised they didn't sneak in a swipe about open source being a socialist conspiracy to undermine American ingenuity.

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