Davriellelouna@lemmy.world to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-226 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.worldimagemessage-square91fedilinkarrow-up1962arrow-down111file-text
arrow-up1951arrow-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.world to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-226 days agomessage-square91fedilinkfile-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·edit-21 month 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 month 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 month 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 month agoThe “Scunthorpe Problem” strikes again!
minus-squareWompWomp@lemmy.cafelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down1·1 month agoBig Balls followed the golden rule of “Move fast and break things” . Shit happens!! /s
minus-squareAmon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 month agoMove fast and break things works well when you’re not breaking your own things
minus-squareSkydancer@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-228 days 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-up2·30 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!
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.