Davriellelouna@lemmy.world to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-21 month 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-square90fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up11arrow-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-21 month agomessage-square90fedilinkfile-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-up0·edit-21 month agodumbfucks are using regex improperly. they’re using /.*(trans).*/ instead of /\s{1,}(trans)[- (sexual|[fe]*male)]*\s{1,}/
minus-squaremonotremata@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month agoThe “Scunthorpe Problem” strikes again!
minus-squareSkydancer@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-21 month 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-squareShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.onelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 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-squareintheformbelow@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month agoMaggats are basically cattle. They have animal rights but not human rights.
minus-squaretowerful@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month agoYou really think they know regex? They probably got grok to generate it and didn’t understand what it does
minus-squareWompWomp@lemmy.cafelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month agoBig Balls followed the golden rule of “Move fast and break things” . Shit happens!! /s
minus-squareAmon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month agoMove fast and break things works well when you’re not breaking your own things
dumbfucks are using regex improperly.
they’re using
/.*(trans).*/instead of/\s{1,}(trans)[- (sexual|[fe]*male)]*\s{1,}/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.
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.
Maggats are basically cattle. They have animal rights but not human rights.
You really think they know regex?
They probably got grok to generate it and didn’t understand what it does
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