Is this supposed to be a joke or have we truly gotten to the point where ... coding in a terminal via like hyprland or w/e, without relying on an what is basically an annoying tutorial character from a video game that acts as an assistant...

This is psycopathy?

Having actual competence in one's field?

Oh god we're all doomed, they'll soon be alternating between worshipping us demigods, or burning us at the stake.

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (5 children)

But how do you remember the syntax???

/sarcasm

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (4 children)

What's that / mean?

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

In html you end a text style with a /

So think of how you put an asterisk around words to bold / italicise them on sm. In html it would be bold or italics. The slash is an "end format" indicator

So /s or /sarcasm means "end sarcasm" and indicates by reasoning that the previous statement was sarcasm.

The diamond brackets got dropped because with them they were being interpreted as actual html commands on early forums

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