Davriellelouna@lemmy.worlddeleted by creator to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-21 year agoDuke University appears to have lost research grants because they used the prefix "trans" in reference to disease transmission, transgenic material, translational studies and signal transductionlemmy.worldimagemessage-square90linkfedilinkarrow-up1965arrow-down110file-text
arrow-up1955arrow-down1imageDuke University appears to have lost research grants because they used the prefix "trans" in reference to disease transmission, transgenic material, translational studies and signal transductionlemmy.worldDavriellelouna@lemmy.worlddeleted by creator to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-21 year agomessage-square90linkfedilinkfile-text
Source: Duke Chronicle https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2025/06/duke-university-national-institutes-of-health-cut-cancel-duke-research-nih-federal-funding-grants-trump-administrations
minus-squareGreenKnight23@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up25arrow-down1·1 year agodumbfucks are using regex improperly. they’re using /.*(trans).*/ instead of /\s{1,}(trans)[- (sexual|[fe]*male)]*\s{1,}/
minus-squareShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.onelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up45·1 year agoYou are giving DOGE way too much credit for actual using code. DOGE most likely hit CRTL+F and typed in “Trans” and called it a day.
minus-squaretowerful@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·1 year agoYou really think they know regex? They probably got grok to generate it and didn’t understand what it does
minus-squaremonotremata@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·1 year agoThe “Scunthorpe Problem” strikes again!
minus-squareWompWomp@lemmy.cafelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down1·1 year agoBig Balls followed the golden rule of “Move fast and break things” . Shit happens!! /s
minus-squareAmon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 year agoMove fast and break things works well when you’re not breaking your own things
minus-squareSkydancer@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-21 year ago (partially) ftfy /\w(trans)(gender|sexual|(fe)?m ale)|masc(uline)?|(wo)?man|person)?\w/ Spoiler is to prevent it from helping them, being dumbfucks who won’t be smart enoygh to open it.
minus-squareintheformbelow@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoMaggats are basically cattle. They have animal rights but not human rights.
dumbfucks are using regex improperly.
they’re using
/.*(trans).*/instead of/\s{1,}(trans)[- (sexual|[fe]*male)]*\s{1,}/You are giving DOGE way too much credit for actual using code. DOGE most likely hit CRTL+F and typed in “Trans” and called it a day.
Yup. Seems that way.
You really think they know regex?
They probably got grok to generate it and didn’t understand what it does
The “Scunthorpe Problem” strikes again!
Big Balls followed the golden rule of “Move fast and break things” . Shit happens!! /s
Move fast and break things works well when you’re not breaking your own things
(partially) ftfy
/\w(trans)(gender|sexual|(fe)?m ale)|masc(uline)?|(wo)?man|person)?\w/Spoiler is to prevent it from helping them, being dumbfucks who won’t be smart enoygh to open it.
Maggats are basically cattle. They have animal rights but not human rights.