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[–] etchinghillside@reddthat.com 227 points 3 months ago (9 children)
[–] irelephant@programming.dev 208 points 3 months ago

A pull-request to forked your reposotory obviously.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 49 points 3 months 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 3 months ago

A little less formal than an e-mails.

[–] HakunaHafada@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 3 months ago

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

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[–] drkt@scribe.disroot.org 207 points 3 months ago (6 children)
[–] Hadriscus@jlai.lu 78 points 3 months ago (3 children)
[–] Kyle_The_G@lemmy.world 33 points 3 months ago (5 children)
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[–] Marthirial@lemmy.world 23 points 3 months 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 3 months ago

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

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[–] monkeyman512@lemmy.world 122 points 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] bonn2@lemmy.zip 8 points 3 months 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 3 months ago (1 children)

You'd probably spell words correctly though, right?

[–] monkeyman512@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago

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

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[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 93 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] irelephant@programming.dev 43 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Sharing is a type of communism, of course.

[–] Colonel_Panic_@lemm.ee 16 points 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months ago

This physically hurts me.

[–] derry@midwest.social 58 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] kautau@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months 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 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] joyjoy@lemmy.zip 22 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Good news! It's a suppository.

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[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 39 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] Phunter@lemmy.zip 58 points 3 months 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 3 months ago (4 children)

But then why use

Term: explanation

and directly below that

"Term"-- explanation

[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 14 points 3 months ago

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

[–] dermanus@lemmy.ca 11 points 3 months 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 3 months ago (1 children)

And people say LLMs will degrade our collective knowledge lol

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[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 37 points 3 months ago

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

[–] Bonus@piefed.social 33 points 3 months ago (1 children)
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[–] okmko@lemmy.world 32 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months 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 3 months ago

Its a bit charitable to call fox news journalists.

[–] dave@feddit.uk 32 points 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months ago (10 children)

Why is the headline in quotes?

[–] Colonel_Panic_@lemm.ee 20 points 3 months ago

Because of "reasons"

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[–] Coolkat@slrpnk.net 22 points 3 months ago

Issue: Form of insult common to this community

[–] Psaldorn@lemmy.world 16 points 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 10 points 3 months ago

A series of tubes.

[–] BlackLaZoR@fedia.io 12 points 3 months ago

Is this is where hacker named 4chan lives?

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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

[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 3 months ago

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

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