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[–] [email protected] 230 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Be sure to use the image upload field too

[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 weeks ago (5 children)

How do I do that? Very new to lemmy. Using Boost. Thanks in advance!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 weeks ago

Embed the image using markdown: ![some text](image URL)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (2 children)

I don't think Lemmy supports media fields in comments (though I've only skimmed the API, I could be wrong) just on posts. I usually use Postimages for hosting images for comments.

[–] kn33 5 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

Idk but Boost has a button for adding pictures to comments.


[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago

That looks like the media endpoint in action, all right.

[–] TriflingToad 4 points 4 weeks ago
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[–] [email protected] 220 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)
[–] CodexArcanum 93 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Seeing this actually sent a small wave of dread through my body

[–] [email protected] 58 points 4 weeks ago

Wdym? flamingo_pinyata's explaination was quite useful, I wish somebody had told me that long ago and it's still going to let me save so much time.

[–] tourist 53 points 4 weeks ago

When I see �, I just assume the user or another dev is using a non-standard keyboard, or my fonts aren't up to date

When I see this shit, I lose all blood flow to the brain and then just collapse

[–] Zachariah 26 points 4 weeks ago

Your Lemmy client appears to have a bug.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 weeks ago
[–] Klear 3 points 4 weeks ago

[vector Victor]

[–] markstos 97 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 30 points 4 weeks ago

Good Ole Bobby tables.

[–] [email protected] 84 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

That’s pretty funny! ���

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 70 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

Why is it that whenever something is spitting out junk data, those specific characters are involved?

[–] [email protected] 97 points 4 weeks ago

� is used to represent an invalid character, so it makes sense that it'd appear often when bad data is being rendered (or good data is being rendered improperly).

[–] [email protected] 65 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Everything is 0s and 1s to a computer. What a pattern of 0s and 1s encodes is decided by people--often arbitrarily. Over the years there have been attempts to standardize encodings but, for legacy reasons, older encodings are still valid.

The 0s and 1s that encode ' in UTF-8 (a standardized encoding) are the same 0s and 1s that encode ’ in CP-1252 (a legacy encoding).

The � symbol is shown when the 0s and 1s don't encode anything of meaning.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

= e2 80 99 (3 bytes)
’ = e2 80 99 (3 separate bytes)

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 weeks ago

Good to see it "spelt out" like that

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago

Right single quote (’) in UTF-8 (https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+2019) has the same bytes as ’ in cp1252 (which is more or less "ASCII" if we're doing ELI5). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows-1252

Sometimes your keyboard or program's settings will use right single quote for apostrophes instead of a normal apostrophe. ' you might notice how this one is straight and not bent a certain way. This setting is often called smart quotes.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 4 weeks ago

👺 May your socks always be wet.

[–] TAYRN 49 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

If you do this, you're going to burn in a very special level of hell. A level they reserve for child molesters and people who talk at the theater.

[–] noughtnaut 5 points 4 weeks ago

The special hell.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 4 weeks ago

You are evil

[–] [email protected] 34 points 4 weeks ago

Some hackers DoS the code. This guy DoS's the corporate process.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 4 weeks ago

I feel like saying nothing but undefined is worse.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (2 children)

If you're reading this, you probably live in a country that is a party to United Nations Convention Against Torture.

If your company is allowing this, please contact your government or another member state.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 weeks ago

See you in hell

[–] NegativeLookBehind 19 points 4 weeks ago

Junior dev: Oh no what is that symbol? Let me examine the code closely to find out

Senior dev: The form still works. Fuck you.

[–] TriflingToad 17 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

wow this is a good joke’ wonder if it'll work

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

You'd need to put ’ (specifically) in place of a quotation mark. That is the cp1252 encoding of right single quote in utf 8.

"Wonder if it’ll work?"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 weeks ago

This doesn’t makes any sense!

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 weeks ago

Must be the updated version of ~~~~####3$3$$%^^~~~! NO CARRIER

[–] Alexstarfire 16 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

At least where I work, the developers who actually wrote the code would probably never see it. We have service staff that deal with an initial problems reported from customers. They'd likely figure out someone actually entered those values.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

You must have exceptionally competent first-level support.

[–] Alexstarfire 8 points 4 weeks ago

They are quite well seasoned. But it's also worth noting they are developers as well because the job usually has you debugging things or writing code that needs to be run for the specific customer. Not a large amount of code, but just things that end up being specific to a customer.

And if they have to come to a developer that actually works on the product, it's usually a pain to try and figure out what is going on. Thankfully, this is very uncommon.

[–] MehBlah 10 points 4 weeks ago

is there a decnet found satan sub around here?

[–] RestrictedAccount 9 points 3 weeks ago
[–] big_slap 6 points 4 weeks ago

I know what I'll be doing April 1st 🤣

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 weeks ago

Who hurt you!?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Honestly funny, since we don't have GDPR here in the US, I guess this is fair.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago

Not sure how that's relevant, but some states do have an equivalent to GDPR. California has CCPA for example.

[–] FourPacketsOfPeanuts 2 points 1 week ago

Remember to throw in "=" at the start just to toy with the poor sap who has to manipulate the results in excel

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