Feyter

@Feyter@programming.dev

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Correcting > Helping⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair this is not a Reddit thing and it can be found in the fediverse too. I can remember some of such situations where a person just posted wrong stuff but in a very confident way. I was able to prove him wrong later but nobody cared anymore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Also not C# Block⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait… there is a different C than C#?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨D or d come on⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Because usability. If you have the files down down1 down2 downxyz and download and the user only knows that it was “something with down” it’s best to show the user everything matching “down” and let the user decide what’s the correct one.

  Also I’m not sure but wouldn’t your expression show everything if only one character would be entered?

  And again I don’t see this solving anything if the entered string actually contains other characters then what’s in the file (D != d)

  Yes one could argue that some form of advanced algorithm or even AI could be used to identify such use case like download and Download but this is programming Humor, not linguisic Humor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨D or d come on⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  down matches down* because * also includes empty string. Also download matches down*

  D matches D* but d is not matching D* because D is a different character than d.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨D or d come on⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry, down is a substring of download I don’t get your point either?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨D or d come on⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t get it… “D” is a complete different character than “d” is.

  It’s like wondering why “file1” is not opened when I typed in “file2”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sometimes there is a better choice than Javascript⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey stop being sarcastic! This is a serious programing community here… Wait.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sometimes there is a better choice than Javascript⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought that’s what GIF was created for… Even if the original introduction of it is saying something completely different.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone else being forced to log into the site for each visit?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes that is exactly what I noticed. I assumed that this had something to do with the recent Lemmy exploit and forcing users to refresh their tokens more frequently.

  I switched to jerboa app (since I’m mainly on a mobile device anyways) and there the problem doesn’t exist.