Davriellelouna@lemmy.world to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-23 days 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.worldexternal-linkmessage-square92fedilinkarrow-up1954arrow-down111file-text
arrow-up1943arrow-down1external-linkDuke 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.world to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-23 days agomessage-square92fedilinkfile-text
Source: 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·edit-23 days agodumbfucks are using regex improperly. they’re using /.*(trans).*/ instead of /\s{1,}(trans)[- (sexual|[fe]*male)]*\s{1,}/
minus-squareShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.onelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up45·3 days 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-up12·3 days agoYou really think they know regex? They probably got grok to generate it and didn’t understand what it does
minus-squaremonotremata@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·3 days agoThe “Scunthorpe Problem” strikes again!
minus-squareSkydancer@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-210 hours 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-squareWompWomp@lemmy.cafelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down1·3 days agoBig Balls followed the golden rule of “Move fast and break things” . Shit happens!! /s
minus-squareAmon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·3 days agoMove fast and break things works well when you’re not breaking your own things
minus-squareintheformbelow@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 days 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!
(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.
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
Maggats are basically cattle. They have animal rights but not human rights.