Fox news trying to explain github.
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Description says the screenshot is at least 12 years old, though asking google at the time would have probably at least yielded the correct spelling of repository, so I wouldn't go as far as to dismiss your conclusion
don't think that was there when I commented. but yeah, google still existed.
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We're all sharing the same communal air? Tragedy of the commons. Someone must privatise it immediately!
That's why Elmu wants to go to Mars.
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Dafuq is an e-note.
It's like intraoffice e-mail.
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What the hell? If they just asked ChatGPT it would have been much better:
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Repository: A folder of project files on the internet.
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Fork: Your own copy of that folder to make changes.
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Pull Request: A way to ask, “Can my changes go back into the original folder?”
*reposortory(sic)
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Why is the headline in quotes?
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.
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This screenshot is old (at least 12 years).
"reposotory"
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This screenshot is old (at least 12 years).
Woah. Things were different, at least 12 years ago.
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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.
"Scare quotes" definitely precede Austin Powers, though that may have spurred a rise in popularity of the usage. (Also, "trashy people never saw Austin Powers" is honestly a pretty weird statement, IMO.)
That said, in this case, arguably the quotes are appropriate, because "the github dictionary" isn't something that happened (i.e. a headline), but a thing they've made up.
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"reposotory"
Good news! It's a suppository.
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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.
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.
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Good news! It's a suppository.
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"Scare quotes" definitely precede Austin Powers, though that may have spurred a rise in popularity of the usage. (Also, "trashy people never saw Austin Powers" is honestly a pretty weird statement, IMO.)
That said, in this case, arguably the quotes are appropriate, because "the github dictionary" isn't something that happened (i.e. a headline), but a thing they've made up.
Yeah, there was a whole Chris Farley bit with them. So you can figure where the end point of that is.
Like most stuff with Mike Meyers, by the time he included it, it was kind of cringe.
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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.
Scare quotes are used informally, but it's not proper usage like a "news" channel should be doing. Which, fair enough, it's Fox "News." But it's already larger text and all caps - why is more emphasis necessary?
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Dafuq is an e-note.
When you're on the information superhighway, in cyberspace, sometimes you want to send someone some information (datums). Sometimes an electronic mail is too formal or cumbersome for that, so you instead send them digital text messages, basically cybernetic telegrams, called e-notes.
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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.
Repository: a collection of related computer code, like related files in a filing cabinet
Fork: a copy of a repository at a certain point in time, like a fork in the road, they diverge from that point
Pull request: a request that a repository owner incorporate your changes into their files.
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When you're on the information superhighway, in cyberspace, sometimes you want to send someone some information (datums). Sometimes an electronic mail is too formal or cumbersome for that, so you instead send them digital text messages, basically cybernetic telegrams, called e-notes.
This comment has too many high syllable words in it. Could you please condense this down into an e-note?
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This comment has too many high syllable words in it. Could you please condense this down into an e-note?
e-note be like
telegrammemorandummemo but not on paper, oncomputermagic blinky box. -
This screenshot is old (at least 12 years).
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Yeah this is about the comprehension level I'd expect from a typical Comm major lol.
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Good news! It's a suppository.
sopposotory
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This screenshot is old (at least 12 years).
