Davriellelouna@lemmy.world to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-22 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-up1974arrow-down111file-text
arrow-up1963arrow-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-22 days agomessage-square91fedilinkfile-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-up26arrow-down1·edit-22 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-up47·2 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-up14·2 days agoYou really think they know regex? They probably got grok to generate it and didn’t understand what it does
minus-squareSkydancer@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 day ago (partially) ftfy /\w{1,}(trans)(gender|sexual|(fe)?m ale)|masc(uline)?|(wo)?man|person)?\w{1,}/ Spoiler is to prevent it from helping them, being dumbfucks who won’t be smart enoygh to open it.
minus-squaremonotremata@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·2 days agoThe “Scunthorpe Problem” strikes again!
minus-squareintheformbelow@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 day agoMaggats are basically cattle. They have animal rights but not human rights.
minus-squareWompWomp@lemmy.cafelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down1·2 days agoBig Balls followed the golden rule of “Move fast and break things” . Shit happens!! /s
minus-squareAmon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 days 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,}/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
(partially) ftfy
/\w{1,}(trans)(gender|sexual|(fe)?m ale)|masc(uline)?|(wo)?man|person)?\w{1,}/Spoiler is to prevent it from helping them, being dumbfucks who won’t be smart enoygh to open it.
The “Scunthorpe Problem” strikes again!
Maggats are basically cattle. They have animal rights but not human rights.
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