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[–] etchinghillside@reddthat.com 226 points 1 month ago (9 children)
[–] irelephant@programming.dev 207 points 1 month ago

A pull-request to forked your reposotory obviously.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 49 points 1 month ago (1 children)

An e-note is a full step above a d-note and a half step below an f-note.

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[–] SatyrSack@lemmy.sdf.org 15 points 1 month ago

A little less formal than an e-mails.

[–] HakunaHafada@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 month ago

It's part of the new Business Douche language word salad.

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[–] drkt@scribe.disroot.org 206 points 1 month ago (6 children)
[–] Hadriscus@jlai.lu 77 points 1 month ago (3 children)
[–] Kyle_The_G@lemmy.world 33 points 1 month ago (5 children)
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[–] Marthirial@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)

A reposotory is a suppository you can share with others when asked with an e-note.

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[–] luciole@beehaw.org 8 points 1 month ago

It's the thing you insert inside your butt to feel better.

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[–] monkeyman512@lemmy.world 121 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Part of me is bothered by those explanations, but if I had to explain GitHub to a tech illiterate grandparent with that much screen space I don't know if I would do much better.

[–] Eranziel@lemmy.world 132 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Repository: a collection of computer code for a software program (or app if you insist).

Fork: a copy of a repository so you can edit it without affecting the original.

Pull request: a request to the owner of a repo to bring in some changes you made in a fork.

I think I even got the word count down.

[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 89 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Repository: your code.

Fork: my code.

Pull request: u want my code?

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[–] nao@sh.itjust.works 25 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Why even bother explaining those terms if you only have that much screen space.

[–] bonn2@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 month ago

I haven't seen the news release, but I would hope they are explaining those terms because they are going to have someone on to talk about github and they were planning on using said terms

[–] jonathan@piefed.social 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You'd probably spell words correctly though, right?

[–] monkeyman512@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

Given historical evidence of my writing that is not a sure thing.

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[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 93 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

[–] irelephant@programming.dev 43 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Sharing is a type of communism, of course.

[–] Colonel_Panic_@lemm.ee 16 points 1 month 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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[–] jimmux@programming.dev 73 points 1 month ago

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

[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 60 points 1 month ago

This physically hurts me.

[–] derry@midwest.social 58 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"forked" when you push broken code to prod at 5 on a Friday.

[–] kautau@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

“CI” - “Come In” which is what your boss says when they ask for a meeting after you thought it was fine for that one line change to skip CI and it broke something

[–] spacemanspiffy@lemmy.world 40 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] joyjoy@lemmy.zip 22 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Good news! It's a suppository.

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[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 39 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I'm convinced that's ment to get people riled up.

[–] Phunter@lemmy.zip 58 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Either that or they're doing the same amount of research they normally do. It's hard to tell.

[–] 30p87@feddit.org 27 points 1 month ago (4 children)

But then why use

Term: explanation

and directly below that

"Term"-- explanation

[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 month ago

Oh my gods I didn't even notice that until you pointed it out. It's so upsetting.

[–] dermanus@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

For the same reason the whole title is in quotes: American literacy is very poor.

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[–] drmoose@lemmy.world 37 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And people say LLMs will degrade our collective knowledge lol

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[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 37 points 1 month ago

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

[–] Bonus@piefed.social 33 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] okmko@lemmy.world 32 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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 13 points 1 month ago

Its a bit charitable to call fox news journalists.

[–] dave@feddit.uk 32 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I'm almost more irritated by the use of two hyphens instead of a colon after the first definition. They just didn't give a shit really.

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[–] YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca 25 points 1 month ago (2 children)

At least they didn’t call it a suppository.

“GitHub just reached its 1 billionth suppository!!”

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[–] kamen@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago (10 children)

Why is the headline in quotes?

[–] Colonel_Panic_@lemm.ee 20 points 1 month ago

Because of "reasons"

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[–] Coolkat@slrpnk.net 22 points 1 month ago

Issue: Form of insult common to this community

[–] Psaldorn@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

At least chat gpt would have spelled it right for fucks sake.

Did they let a 6 year old write that up?

THEY GET PAID TO DO THIS. SOMEONE GETS PAID TO CHECK IT TOO.

Or am I being trolled.

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 8 points 1 month ago

You know how scam emails intentionally include mistakes because they want to filter out smart people? Same idea.

Reasonably smart people will see this and go "this is garbage". The idiots will go deeper, and become loyal gop voters.

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They should just have said it’s “like email”.

[–] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 month ago

A series of tubes.

[–] BlackLaZoR@fedia.io 12 points 1 month ago

Is this is where hacker named 4chan lives?

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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

[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 month ago

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

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