• sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    4 days ago

    Is this supposed to be a joke or have we truly gotten to the point where … coding in a terminal via like hyprland or w/e, without relying on an what is basically an annoying tutorial character from a video game that acts as an assistant…

    This is psycopathy?

    Having actual competence in one’s field?

    Oh god we’re all doomed, they’ll soon be alternating between worshipping us demigods, or burning us at the stake.

    EDIT:

    Welp, I’m sure thats a good sign, lol.

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        6 days ago

        I quite literally yelled at the introduction of ‘the cloud’ as yet another stupid corpo buzzword.

        I was working at MSFT the first time someone hsd ever asked me if I had a ‘cloud’ backup.

        What? Do you mean a remote server, offsite?

        No, no, in the cloud!

        5 minutes of research later.

        Oh, so yes, you do mean on a remote server somewhere.

        No, no, in the cloud!

        head_desk.jpg

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          6 days ago

          In html you end a text style with a /

          So think of how you put an asterisk around words to bold / italicise them on sm. In html it would be <b>bold</b> or <i>italics</i>. The slash is an “end format” indicator

          So /s or /sarcasm means “end sarcasm” and indicates by reasoning that the previous statement was sarcasm.

          The diamond brackets got dropped because with them they were being interpreted as actual html commands on early forums

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          6 days ago

          quite ironically, they are using syntax, specifically / , to indicate a specific kind of meaning afterward.

          /sarcasm

          /s

          /joking

          /j

          I’ve seen all these used to more explicitly indicate that the previous statement was sarcastic, or a joke, due to irony being largely dead, but also to help with people may not natively read/speak/write english.