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[–] [email protected] 96 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Sharing is a type of communism, of course.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days 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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[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Good news! It's a suppository.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 229 points 3 days ago (9 children)
[–] [email protected] 216 points 3 days ago (1 children)

A pull-request to forked your reposotory obviously.

[–] [email protected] 74 points 3 days ago (5 children)
[–] [email protected] 42 points 3 days ago (4 children)

You should make a pull request and fork them yourself if you care that deeply

[–] [email protected] 49 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (5 children)

Write it

cut it

paste it

save it

load it

check it

quick, rewrite it

Plug it

play it

burn it

rip it

drag it

drop it

zip

unzip it

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 3 days 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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[–] [email protected] 206 points 3 days ago (6 children)
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[–] [email protected] 33 points 3 days ago (5 children)
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[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Why is the headline in quotes?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 days ago

Because of "reasons"

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago (8 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.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

It's valid usage if you go waaay back, i.e. centuries. You also see it in some late 19th/early 20th century newsprint and ads.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 days ago (1 children)

And people say LLMs will degrade our collective knowledge lol

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

they both will

[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 days 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?”

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago

Oh yeah, I overlooked that detail.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days 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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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

*reposortory(sic)

[–] [email protected] 129 points 3 days ago (5 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.

[–] [email protected] 131 points 3 days 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.

[–] [email protected] 86 points 3 days ago

Repository: your code.

Fork: my code.

Pull request: u want my code?

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 66 points 3 days ago

This physically hurts me.

[–] [email protected] 76 points 3 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 62 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days 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.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago

Its a bit charitable to call fox news journalists.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 days ago

Issue: Form of insult common to this community

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I wonder More why was github on tv

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 3 days ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 39 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 59 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 days ago (5 children)

But then why use

Term: explanation

and directly below that

"Term"-- explanation

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 3 days 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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[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 days ago (2 children)

At least they didn’t call it a suppository.

“GitHub just reached its 1 billionth suppository!!”

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