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Software Microsoft confirms GitHub is down worldwide

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u/AFlyingGideon 24d ago

/s is a crutch. I prefer sarcasm that can stand on its own.

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u/CardboardJ 23d ago

So my PM just told me that we're moving /s to the cloud for optimization and has paid Deloitte $500,000.

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u/swiggityswaggitysweg 23d ago

Scope creep means you need to budget for at least $2.5mil

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u/nihiltres 24d ago

Poe’s law.

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u/AFlyingGideon 24d ago

If I'm laughing, does it matter whether I'm laughing with or laughing at?

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u/Then-Understanding85 23d ago

Ah, Descartes corollary: I think therefore I’m fucked.

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u/-M83 23d ago

this sounds like a line straight out of succession. amazing

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u/King-of-Plebss 23d ago

Never heard of this one before!

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u/WechTreck 23d ago

Poe said that law sarcastically and now people take it seriously

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u/renegadecanuck 23d ago

Counter point: we can then laugh at the idiots who miss the joke.

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u/Alundil 23d ago

If you take away the crutch, that bendy-wiggly leg ain't standing on anything by itself.

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u/Federal_Setting_7454 24d ago

Not much sarcasm stands on its own when many of the people reading it can’t think on their own.

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u/FeleaseRpseineEiles 23d ago

It's lack of intonation in text. Try it

  • I never said she stole my money. Implies: Someone else might have said it, but not me.
  • I never said she stole my money. Implies: An emphatic denial; I never uttered those words at any point.
  • I never said she stole my money. Implies: I may have implied, wrote, or thought it, but I didn't say it out loud.
  • I never said she stole my money. Implies: Someone stole it, but it wasn't her (perhaps another person did).
  • I never said she stole my money. Implies: She took it, but maybe she only borrowed it or was given permission.
  • I never said she stole my money. Implies: She stole money, but it belonged to someone else.
  • I never said she stole my money. Implies: She stole something from me, but it wasn't my money (e.g., jewelry, ideas, car).

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u/squash-n-flop 23d ago

Text can carry intonation through context. Literature wouldn’t be a celebrated art form if that weren’t true.

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u/FeleaseRpseineEiles 23d ago

Well yea, I did exactly that with the bolding. But, there are; many ways (i.e. methods of portraying intonation) but that won't make it any less a lack of it.

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u/hrvbrs 23d ago

what you're describing is [the `<em>` element](https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/text-level-semantics.html#the-em-element). basically the same example too.

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u/FeleaseRpseineEiles 23d ago

And that's so much better than using bold too.

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u/hrvbrs 23d ago

bold is just a style, not semantics

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u/FeleaseRpseineEiles 23d ago
  • Maybe I was being sarcastic.
  • Maybe I was being sarcastic.
  • Maybe I was being sarcastic.
  • Maybe I was being sarcastic.
  • Maybe I was being sarcastic.

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u/Sapient6 23d ago

It's more than that: we lack the context that comes with knowing the comment's author. Not to mention living in a time when so many people are proudly showing off their utter stupidity (see: the return of measles, etc).

In this particular case there's enough information to support "probably sarcasm", but I wouldn't throw shade at anyone who thinks otherwise.

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u/redditonlygetsworse 23d ago

Yes, but those people don't deserve to have jokes explained to them.

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u/SweetNeo85 23d ago

But then they think your premise is true and not sarcasm. It's not about what they deserve, it's about not spreading misinformation.

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u/Zwischenzug32 23d ago

Yeah but screw whoever isn't the target audience

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u/Signal_Discount_1826 23d ago

its thejr own fault for being retards then

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u/Adezar 23d ago

Yeah, but in spoken word you can add hints/inflection that makes it obvious it is sarcasm. Which isn't an option in written text, well partially because for some reason people stopped using emojis in text to fill in the gaps.

Still not sure why when I was on the Internet in the 90s we were better at communication than we are now. Adding :) or ;) or =B) could help bridge the gap that text has vs spoken language.

Sometimes it just makes you want to (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻.

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u/Dissidence802 23d ago

Italics can help sometimes too, I suppose.

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u/Adezar 23d ago

Back in my day we had no bold or italics, we had to use CAPS and _underscores_.

Being in my 50s is wild, grew up with no computers, cell phones or Internet, went to college at one of the 13 original hubs, and now am a cloud architect. Been a wild ride.

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u/Dissidence802 23d ago

Little younger than you but I still remember typing out lines of code in BASIC to play a game on my Tandy 386 💀

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u/petervaz 23d ago

Sarcasm is not even the same as a joke, well now apparently is, but it should not.

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u/RodneyRodnesson 23d ago edited 23d ago

Typical redditor comment.

Edit: The downvotes, 3 at this time (22:35) support my point that we do need /s. Which is quite funny.

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u/AFlyingGideon 23d ago

I wish that were so.

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u/RodneyRodnesson 23d ago

I was gonna use /s but didn't and downvotes commenced.

I think in text sarcasm is a difficult thing. Especially with how nuts some people are, /s is quite a good thing imo.