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Fox news trying to explain github. (programming.dev)
submitted 3 weeks ago by irelephant@programming.dev to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
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[–] etchinghillside@reddthat.com 230 points 3 weeks ago (9 children)

Dafuq is an e-note.

[–] irelephant@programming.dev 213 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

A pull-request to forked your reposotory obviously.

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 73 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Go fork yourself.

[–] artocode404@lemmy.dbzer0.com 42 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

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

[–] frezik@midwest.social 50 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

unzip
strip
touch
finger
grep
mount
fsck
more
yes
fsck
fsck
fsck
umount
sleep

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks 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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[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 14 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Wouldn't that be a rusty trombone?

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[–] irelephant@programming.dev 17 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Not without an e-note

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[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 50 points 3 weeks 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 16 points 3 weeks ago

A little less formal than an e-mails.

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[–] drkt@scribe.disroot.org 206 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

reposotory

[–] Hadriscus@jlai.lu 79 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

poll roquest

[–] Kyle_The_G@lemmy.world 33 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

suppository

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[–] Marthirial@lemmy.world 22 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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

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[–] monkeyman512@lemmy.world 126 points 3 weeks 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 133 points 3 weeks 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 88 points 3 weeks ago

Repository: your code.

Fork: my code.

Pull request: u want my code?

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[–] nao@sh.itjust.works 27 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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

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[–] jonathan@piefed.social 19 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

You'd probably spell words correctly though, right?

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

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

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[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 94 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

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

[–] irelephant@programming.dev 43 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Sharing is a type of communism, of course.

[–] Colonel_Panic_@lemm.ee 14 points 2 weeks 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 76 points 3 weeks 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 65 points 3 weeks ago

This physically hurts me.

[–] derry@midwest.social 61 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] kautau@lemmy.world 13 points 3 weeks 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

[–] Xerxos@lemmy.ml 43 points 3 weeks ago (7 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?”

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[–] drmoose@lemmy.world 40 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

And people say LLMs will degrade our collective knowledge lol

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[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 38 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 38 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

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

[–] Phunter@lemmy.zip 58 points 3 weeks 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 26 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

But then why use

Term: explanation

and directly below that

"Term"-- explanation

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

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

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[–] spacemanspiffy@lemmy.world 36 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

"reposotory"

[–] joyjoy@lemmy.zip 20 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Good news! It's a suppository.

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[–] Bonus@piefed.social 35 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

*repository, jeniuses

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[–] dave@feddit.uk 34 points 3 weeks 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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[–] okmko@lemmy.world 32 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks 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.

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[–] YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca 26 points 3 weeks 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 24 points 2 weeks ago (10 children)

Why is the headline in quotes?

[–] Colonel_Panic_@lemm.ee 21 points 2 weeks ago

Because of "reasons"

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

Issue: Form of insult common to this community

[–] Mwa@thelemmy.club 22 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I wonder More why was github on tv

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[–] Psaldorn@lemmy.world 16 points 3 weeks 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.

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[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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

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