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’"‘”’" means "I edited this text on both my phone and my laptop before sending it"

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 11 months ago (3 children)
((( )))

You're read something written by a right wing lunatic (Wiki )

[–] [email protected] 34 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I knew there was a reason I didn't like Lisp.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I know you're memeing, but if I know my Lisp, just wrapping something in triple parens implies evaluating it three times. So you have an expression evaluating to a producer that produces another producer that finally produces a value?

I'm sure there's a legit use case for it. I just can't think of one.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

All banks are run by ([{them}])

Who's them?

The board of directors, duh

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

((( )))


What bash, that's Lisp. Source is marked as bash.

edit: seems like lemmy has a bug with quoted sourcecode? I'll leave it like this.
[–] [email protected] 51 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (5 children)

Feeling called out for having a favourite monospaced font.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

fira mono

Have my code editor terminal lemmy etc in it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

That's a good one!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

No one with Cascadia Code?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

mononoki but only because the Doom Emacs config I followed when I switched to Linux used it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Ubuntu Mono ftw!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Mine is IBM Plex Mono, but the nerdfont 'Blex' variety.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 11 months ago (1 children)

No ``` Markdown quotation marks ```

No „down-up quotation marks“

And worst of all, no marks for the 「regular attack」, 『finishing move』and

 ﹃
 𝖑
 𝖎
 𝖒
 𝖎
 𝖙

 𝖇
 𝖗
 𝖊
 𝖆
 𝖐
﹄ 
[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Not the ultimate LIMIT BREAF

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

límít breah

[–] [email protected] 25 points 11 months ago (1 children)

No IPA notation? ⸨I'm somewhat disappointed⸩

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

Can it only be used while drunk?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 11 months ago (1 children)

))<>(( Back and forth forever.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

I wish I could upvote this forever.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I don't get the "Someone British is talking" bit

We only use the singular ' to indicate speech within speech -

John said, "I was just speaking to Charlie, and he said 'It's not often XKCD gets things wrong', and I agreed".

I could be wrong but that's what I was taught

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

The use of quotation marks, also called inverted commas, is very slightly complicated by the fact that there are two types: single quotes (` ') and double quotes (" "). As a general rule, British usage has in the past usually preferred single quotes for ordinary use, but double quotes are now increasingly common; American usage has always preferred double quotes.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

British English often uses single quotation marks to identify the outermost text of a primary quotation versus double quotation marks for inner, nested quotations.

From wiki

Huh, just shows you how I was taught the British way many years ago, but adopted the American way due to reading so many bloody books!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Old British person here, I was always taught double quotation marks for speech and single quotation marks for actually quoting something.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Pull out your closest volume of Lord of the Rings and take a look. My copy at least has single-quotes for the speech text and double-quotes are used for nested speech. I guess it might be up to the publisher (eg: my copy of Harry Potter has been "Americanized" and thus uses double-quotes for the first level of speech text), but every copy of LotR i've run across uses single-quotes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I heard somewhere it was to save ink.

Maybe they were pulling my leg.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Fira Code with ligatures

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Hack (with Nerd Font patch)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Mine is monospace

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The python function is some sort of brainfuck?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

It's a list with a tuple, with a list with an empty dictionary. I'm not sure the innermost parenthesis is legal there.

Edit: Well, I tested it. It's legal. {()} is just a set with an empty tuple instead of a dictionary.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This sounds like something I would do with all of 40 hours or so of Python-esque programming under my belt. I feel like there has to be a better way, but it worked. I'm worried this might be the best way.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Ouch. If you ever catches yourself writing something like this, stop. Intermediate values deserve names too. Even Haskell developers wouldn't go into such extreme namelessness.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

People reading decompiled inlined code: "wait this isn't normal?"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago