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VirtualOdour@sh.itjust.works · 77 pts · 2y (6 replies)

6 in 10 Americans believe any old nonsense as long as you present it with confidence.

BleatingZombie@lemmy.world · 38 pts · 2y (4 replies)

73% of numerical statistics go unverified

backhdlp@iusearchlinux.fyi · 27 pts · 2y (3 replies)

If you put a decimal in your statistic, it becomes 82.6% more believable.

Anticorp@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 2y (2 replies)

71.2% of all statistics are made-up on the spot.

dalekcaan@lemm.ee · 15 pts · 2y (1 reply)

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

-Sun Tzu

Ironfacebuster@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 2y

"This guy is speaking straight facts"

  • George Washington
AngryishHumanoid@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y

I don't believe you because the end of your sentence wasn't emphatic enough. Period. Mic drop.

Molten_Moron@lemmings.world · 40 pts · 2y (17 replies)

And 8 in 10 Americans think HTML is a programming language.

jaybone@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 2y (4 replies)

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

KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 2y (1 reply)

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

anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 2y

Show me the regex for the language L = {a^n b^n | n in N}

summerof69@lemm.ee · 5 pts · 2y

I mean...

Anticorp@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y

†hê þðñ¥, hê ¢ðmê§

PiratePanPan@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 2y (2 replies)

I will die on the hill that HTML should be treated like a programming language.

extant@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y

The hyper text markup language programming language?

Molten_Moron@lemmings.world · 5 pts · 2y

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.

einsteinx2@programming.dev · 6 pts · 2y (2 replies)

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.

FlickOfTheBean@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y

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

PiratePanPan@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 2y

https://html-lang.org/

Yo, dawg, I heard you like HTML, so I put HTML in your HTML so you could HTML while you HTML

OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 2y (3 replies)

They're wrong too, although less-so.

Also, what about that last American?

activ8r@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 2y (1 reply)

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

OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 2y

Mom, look! I'm a statistic!

Molten_Moron@lemmings.world · 1 pts · 2y

The last American knows it's a markup language.

rimjob_rainer@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 2y

Boomer programmer humor

Sibbo@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 2y

Ever heard of HTMX?

penquin@lemmy.kde.social · 23 pts · 2y (7 replies)

I want this book

RmDebArc_5@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 2y (3 replies)

Anyone know the title?

mypasswordis1234@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Plz mention me if anyone finds the title. I need it

andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works · 0 pts · 2y

See that thread.

andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 2y (2 replies)

See that thread.

penquin@lemmy.kde.social · 1 pts · 2y (1 reply)

What thread?

ramjambamalam@lemmy.ca · 19 pts · 2y (4 replies)

USA > USB

s12@sopuli.xyz · 9 pts · 2y (3 replies)

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

xilophor@programming.dev · 5 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Which is larger though, USA or all the USBs in the world?

s12@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 2y

Probably still USA.

stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 2y
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FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today · 14 pts · 2y

I'm gonna have to start vetting my partners better, I don't want to catch Webdev.

Kolanaki@yiffit.net · 13 pts · 2y

It's cool. Those with HTML are likely never to have sex anyway.

NoLifeKing@ani.social · 12 pts · 2y (2 replies)
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SkybreakerEngineer@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y (1 reply)

No, it's a serially transmitted disease

BurningTurtle@programming.dev · 2 pts · 2y

Could we define it as spreading through memetic means?

PiratePanPan@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 2y

Close: JS is a disease.

JoYo@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 2y (3 replies)

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

GlitterInfection@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y (2 replies)

I thought it was because STDS were?

Anticorp@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y (1 reply)

I think most programmers are safe from STDs.

xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org · 4 pts · 2y

std::C++ std::programmers std::are std::not.

Cold_Brew_Enema@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Hyper Tetanus Menstrual Lipomas

hakunawazo@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y

Band name.

aiden@lemm.ee · 7 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Who had sex with my website

Anticorp@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y

It was me!

BlackPenguins@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y

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

mariusafa@lemmy.sdf.org · 4 pts · 2y

The disease part is too real

lugal@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 2y

At least sometimes it's a viral disease

fubarx@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 2y (1 reply)

2 out of 10 Americans believe anything off a screenshot.

KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 2y

7/10 Americans think a photo and a screenshot are the same thing.

someguy3@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 2y

How To Meet Ladies.

BaardFigur@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
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clyne@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 2y

1 in 10 Americans think rust is a good thing.

repungnant_canary@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y (2 replies)

I mean, isn't it?

myusernameis@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 2y
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hansl@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

My kid is learning HTML so… maybe?

squiblet@kbin.social · 2 pts · 2y

My DNA is a sexually transmitted disease

astrsk@kbin.social · 1 pts · 2y

Dang, 50% is a lot.

umbrella@lemmy.ml · -1 pts · 2y
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