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Formerly a transcriber for r/TranscribersOfReddit, I occasionally do freelance transcriptions on Lemmy in my spare time.

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  • Image Transcription: YouTube Comment


    @davidm.313

    “Debugging. The game where you are the criminal, the victim, and the detective at the same time. But you probably don’t know where the crime took place, or what it was. But there definitely is a crime.”


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  • Image Transcription: Code


    [Transcriber’s note: the first line in the following transcription is incorrect. After the equals, there should be eight instances of the word “Option”, each succeeded by a less-than symbol, then two brackets, like (), before the first greater-tha symbol. However, if you type a less-than symbol on Lemmy, it seems to strip that symbol and whatever word comes next out of the source when you save the comment.]

    type Wtf = Option>>>>>>>;
    let two = Some(Some(Some(Some(Some(Some(None))))));
    let three = Some(Some(Some(Some(Some(None)))));
    let six = Some(Some(None));
    unsafe {
        assert_eq!(
            std::mem::transmute::(two) * std::mem::transmute::(three)
            std::mem::transmute::(six)
        );
    }
    

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  • Image Transcription: Meme


    Junior devs writing comments:

    [A photograph of a road signpost in front of a metal fence with a low, long building in the distance. The post has two signs on it. At the top is an octagonal sign, filled red with a white outline, reading “STOP”. Beneath it is a rectangular sign with an arrow pointing up to the stop sign, and text reading “THIS IS A STOP SIGN”.]


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  • Image Transcription: Meme


    STOP USING CSS

    * HTML WAS NOT SUPPOSED TO BE GIVEN CLASSES
    * YEARS OF MARKUP yet NO REAL-WORLD USE FOUND for styling beyond <TABLE>
    * Wanted to center content for a laugh? We had a tool for that: It was called “<CENTER>”
    * “Yes please align that content exactly 32.89% left. Please align 59.0px down”
        - Statements dreams up by the utterly deranged

    LOOK at what FRONT-END Devs  have been demanding your Respect for all this time.
    (This is REAL CSS. done by REAL Devs)

    [Three screenshots of CSS code, each one marked with a number of red question marks. The first screenshot has five question marks and reads as follows:]

    h1 {
            font-size: .75em;
            position: absolute;
            bottom: 20px;
            width: 94%;
            left: 2%;
    }
    

    [The second screenshot has eight question marks and reads as follows:]

    *{
        font-size: 30px;
    
    }
        q::before {
      content: "«";
      color: blue;
    ]
    
    q::after {
      content: "»";
      color: red;
    }
    

    [The third screenshot has sixteen question marks and reads as follows:]

    #header ul a:focus, #header ul a:active,
    #header ul a:hover {
        background-color: #5A5A5A;
        outline-color: -moz-use-text-color:
        outline-style: none;
        outline-width: medium;
    }
    

    [The screenshots end.]

    “Hello center that div please”

    They have played us for absolute fools


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  • Image Transcription: Meme


    People in every profession: We know what we do

    Programmers:

    [“Awkward Look Monkey Puppet”, two images of a red monkey puppet from “Ōkiku naru Ko”. On the left, the monkey faces right and sideglances with wide eyes and contracted pupils, while the right image shows the monkey staring straight ahead.]


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  • Image Transcription: Meme


    [Four images of toilet roll holders, each with text above them.

    The first shows a toilet roll holder holding a partially-used roll of toilet paper. Its text reads, “Non-zero value”.

    The second shows a holder holding a completely used roll of toilet paper, leaving just the cardboard tube. Its text reads, “0”.

    The third shows a holder with no toilet roll or cardboard tube on it at all. Its text reads, “null”.

    The fourth shows no holder; simply plain wall. Its text reads, “undefined”.]


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  • Image Transcription: Comic


    Panel 1

    [A green snake and a green turtle are facing one another on a plain pink background.]

    Snake: I want to be a good programmer!


    Panel 2

    [The turtle’s mouth is open.]

    Turtle: Just pretend you’re already a good programmer


    Panel 3

    [A close up on the snake, showing only its head, with the turtle offscreen. The background is now purple.]

    Snake: When should I stop pretending?

    Turtle: Never


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  • Image Transcription: Code


    bool is_prime(int x)
        return false;
    }
    

    [Beneath the code is a snippet of console output, as follows:]

    test no.99989: passed
    test no.99990: passed
    test no.99991: failed
    test no.99992: passed
    test no.99993: passed
    test no.99994: passed
    test no.99995: passed
    test no.99996: passed
    test no.99997: passed
    test no.99998: passed
    test no.99999: passed
    95.121% tests passed
    

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  • Image Transcription: Twitter


    Giray Özil, @girayozil

    Ask a programmer to review 10 lines of code, he’ll find 10 issues. Ask him to do 500 lines and he’ll say it looks good.


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  • Hi, moderator of Transcribers of Reddit here!

    TL;DR: It’s just not feasible with the resources available to us.

    It’s theoretically possible we could migrate to the Fediverse, and it’s an option we investigated. We can’t 100% exclude that we never will migrate anywhere, but I think it’s very unlikely we will.

    The jist of it comes down to this: the infrastructure that we’ve built to keep our community running smoothly on Reddit has taken years to get as stable as it is now. A large amount of that would have to be completely re-written for a different API, and we just don’t have the resources for that.

    There’s also the fact to consider that everywhere else, Fediverse included, is already leaps and bounds more accessible than Reddit. (The very existence of this post evidences that much of the userbase is more aware of its necessity, and that’s a great thing!)

    Migration to somewhere else would take a long time and a huge amount of effort, and we only have one primary developer, who has an IRL job and life to attend to, and thus can’t reasonably devote the amount of time and effort that would be required.