Spyke
dalekcaanreply
lemm.ee

"You can pretty much come up with whatever quote you want and pretend someone famous said it. Nobody checks anyway."

-Sun Tzu

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jaybonereply
lemmy.world

And 5 in 10 Americans think you can parse it with regular expressions.

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KairuBytereply
lemmy.dbzer0.com

You can parse anything with regex, if you’re willing to give up your soul for it.

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I absolutely agree, and luckily I think it mostly is treated as a programming language. It's just a technicality that makes for a great joke.

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einsteinx2reply
programming.dev

https://html-lang.org/

I mean, technically it’s the other 2 out of 10 that are wrong…🙃

HTML, the programming language, is a practical, turing-complete[1], stack-based programming language based on HTML, the markup language. It uses elements defined in HTML, the markup language, in order to do computations.

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Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should!

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lemmy.ca

They're wrong too, although less-so.

Also, what about that last American?

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activ8rreply
sh.itjust.works

The last one knows it's not a programming language and is annoyingly vocal about it.

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s12reply
sopuli.xyz

I disagree. USB is superior.
If you are talking about physical size however, then yeah. USA is bigger than a single USB.

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lemmy.ml

Oh I get it, it’s programmer humor because HTML was mentioned.

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Cue the Republicans trying to ban HTML from our Internet to protect the kids. Yeah, you do that...

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lemmy.ml

2 out of 10 Americans believe anything off a screenshot.

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