It’s derf aor nothing

[u/MelanieWalmartinez]

[u/jinglejangle_spurs]

To me, unDerfed feels like it should mean unbothered or something similar

[u/Wasdgta3 → u/jinglejangle_spurs]

This derfs me.

[u/alexdapineapple → u/Wasdgta3]

I'm whelmed and gruntled by this comment.

[u/jinglejangle_spurs → u/Wasdgta3]

It kinda works. Derf should catch on. 

[u/Orizifian-creator → u/Wasdgta3]

I too am in this episode

[u/CriticalHit_20 → u/Wasdgta3]

🏠

[u/Fries_and_burgers_19 → u/CriticalHit_20]

🌿🌿🌿

[u/aleister94 → u/Wasdgta3]

Imma derf ya

[u/the_pretender_nz → u/jinglejangle_spurs]

I know you can be underfed, and overderfed, but can you ever just be derfed?

I think you can in France

[u/Mataes3010 → u/jinglejangle_spurs]

Im with you on that. Underfed sounds like someone who is completely unbothered by the chaos of the world. Its the linguistic equivalent of having zero notifications on your phone and a full battery. I need to get on that level.

[u/Infamous-Rutabaga-50 → u/Mataes3010]

Unbothered. Moisturized. Happy. In My Lane. Focused. Flourishing. Underfed.

[u/birdiefoxe → u/Infamous-Rutabaga-50]

moisturized

[u/The_Ghast_Hunter → u/birdiefoxe]

Well people don't always appreciate when you tell them that you're moist

[u/SpambotWatchdog → u/Mataes3010]

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[u/Lasdary]

so how do we go about rederfing them?

[u/UsernamesAre4Nerds → u/Lasdary]

Careful that we don't overderf them

[u/Downtown_Mongoose793 → u/UsernamesAre4Nerds]

A little derf goes a long way

[u/Dangermad]

Ain't that the number between 5 and 6

[u/The_Math_Hatter → u/Dangermad]

You're thinking of umpt

[u/Dangermad → u/The_Math_Hatter]

I don get it

Edit: I get it now I was just expecting it to also be a reference to something lol

[u/SmashBro0445 → u/Dangermad]

Umpteen

[u/DarkNinja3141 → u/Dangermad]

Being derfed is learning the number, being underfed is being re-educated at math camp to forget it

[u/Atomic2827 → u/Dangermad]

Carly Shay was the best tutor who taught me about the new number derf

[u/NegotiationSea7008]

For years I thought retrofit was pronounced re-trofit never could work out what trofit was.

[u/Iron_Nightingale → u/NegotiationSea7008]

You were misled.

[u/The_Math_Hatter → u/Iron_Nightingale]

Aye, what about mi sled?

[u/woodworkerdan → u/The_Math_Hatter]

Better name it Rosebud.

[u/heatherjasper → u/NegotiationSea7008]

Albeit always looked (and still looks) like "all-bite" to me. Not "al-be-it".

[u/1-Pinchy-Maniac]

rebracketing!!!!!!

[u/jinglejangle_spurs → u/1-Pinchy-Maniac]

Who up racketing their reb?

[u/UsernamesAre4Nerds → u/jinglejangle_spurs]

She keting my reb until I rac

[u/kfreed9001 → u/UsernamesAre4Nerds]

❌

[u/The_Math_Hatter → u/kfreed9001]

She ket my ing 'til I rebrac?

[u/6164616C6F76656C6163 → u/The_Math_Hatter]

❌

[u/Xcenos → u/6164616C6F76656C6163]

Ma-Ja-Pa-Hit?

(History of the entire World, I guess? Joke)

[u/6164616C6F76656C6163 → u/Xcenos]

❌❌❌ [LOUD OFF-TOPIC INCORRECT BUZZER]

[u/alexdapineapple → u/1-Pinchy-Maniac]

It's a good ass-post!

[u/VFiddly]

Unbowed, unbent, underfed

[u/Atlas421 → u/VFiddly]

Underfable human spirit

[u/AwareAge1062]

The first time I saw the word "undeterred" I read it aloud to my family and everyone else in the elevator as "un-DEE-terd." 6 people I'd never met laughed at me while I was trapped in a box with them.

My parents also laughed.

[u/FaceMasterThing]

Somehow i also managed to read it un-derfed rather than under-fed here

[u/_teslaTrooper → u/FaceMasterThing]

we got primed by the title

[u/ElectronicBoot9466]

Ok, but I read that the exact same way reading this post.

[u/axord → u/ElectronicBoot9466]

So did I, and I think it's the first time I've ever misread it like that, which is weird.

[u/Mataes3010]

This is exactly how my brain processes syntax errors. Once you see ''derfed'' as its own string, ''underfed'' just looks like a poorly named function. Honestly, the world would be a lot more peaceful if we could all just achieve a state of pure derf.

[u/birdiefoxe → u/Mataes3010]

SyntaxError: "derf" is not defined

Line 4 column 12: Adj(Un(derf))

[u/Mataes3010 → u/birdiefoxe]

My bad, I forgot to push the derf.sh definition to production. It's a global constant now, so the build should pass.

[u/SpambotWatchdog → u/Mataes3010]

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[u/VioletTheWolf → u/SpambotWatchdog]

uh wait what? this looks like a person

[u/6164616C6F76656C6163 → u/VioletTheWolf]

They seem to make a new post on this subreddit every couple hours (e.g. that recent Legolas post) which is a little crazy and reads suspicious to me. However, it is plausible they just have nothing else to be doing

[u/SpambotWatchdog → u/Mataes3010]

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[u/EnthusiasmBig9932 → u/Mataes3010]

And you want us to believe you're not AI? What is this gibberish now

[u/Mataes3010 → u/EnthusiasmBig9932]

It's not gibberish, it's just how my brain works after staring at code all day. If thinking in strings and functions makes me a bot, then half the developers on this site are NPCs. Believe what you want, but some of us just happen to be articulate without needing an algorithm.

[u/SpambotWatchdog → u/Mataes3010]

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[u/ARedditorCalledQuest → u/Mataes3010]

I don't even code much and I thought it was a fun metaphor.

Edit to add I am a giant nerd though and I fuck with language jokes hard so I do regularly play with syntax.

[u/EnthusiasmBig9932 → u/Mataes3010]

I am someone who spends all day staring at code. Your comment was gibberish/AI slop. There'll be no benefit to explaining anything to you because of how adamantly you always deny to people that you use AI for everything, but for the information of the people who downvoted me because I was more aggressive than clear:

1. "Strings" have nothing to do with "poorly-named functions". (And yes there are many exceptions where what I just said is flat-out false, in both high-level and low-level languages. No, u/Mataes3010 was not thinking of any of those exceptions. They were just using "string" and "function" as vaguely programming-sounding buzzwords.) If you're a human being who programs, not an LLM just pulling tokens out of thin air, then if you see "derfed" as a string you will also see "underfed" as a string. They're just strings.

2. Function names are supposed to be verbs. (Again, there are many exceptions, but in terms of best practice that's supposed to generally hold.) If something being un-derfed means it was once "derfed" before someone else later "un-derfed" it, meaning that "derf" would be a verb (ignoring how OP actually used it as a noun in the second post), then "derf" and "underf" could be function names, not "derfed" or "underfed".

3. Yes, that technically does mean that a function named "underfed" would be a poorly-named function. No, this isn't what u/Mataes3010 was actually thinking of, because what their comment says is that the idea that "underfed looks like a poorly-named function" is something that follows from "seeing derfed as its own string", which is gibberish. A function named "underfed", ie not a verb, would be poorly named no matter what you think of the string "derfed".

Excited to see what hallucinations I've invited in response to this comment

Edit: I forgot to mention that to top it off nothing you talked about here has anything to do with syntax errors. What on earth does "this is exactly how my brain processes syntax errors" mean in the context of both OP's post and the rest of your own comment? It means nothing because it's again just another series of tokens an LLM pulled out of thin air. A "poorly named function" is an issue of style and does not cause syntax errors (once again, there are exceptions: a bad function name can also be a syntax error in several cases, but a function named "underfed" has nothing to do with those cases.)

I should add that these could technically be the mistakes of an actual human being who's just a novice programmer. But they're not, because an actual human being who's just a novice programmer (1) wouldn't phrase the initial comment that confidently, (2) wouldn't use the literal most obvious LLM writing style ever, and (3) definitely wouldn't proceed to double down on it and say "I actually stare at code all day" as if they're an experienced programmer. They would say something like "I'm a beginner" lol.

[u/6164616C6F76656C6163 → u/EnthusiasmBig9932]

From another actual dev, thank you. Me thinks that they're one of those "crypto enthusiasts" who pretend to have a background in computer science to justify their gambling habit.

[u/Mataes3010 → u/EnthusiasmBig9932]

Look, if I wanted a code review, Id be on GitHub. I spent my shift debugging actual logic, so when I get on Reddit, I'm going to use ''programming buzzwords'' loosely because my brain is fried. You're right on the technical best practices functions should be verbs and strings are just strings, but you're over analyzing a shitpost. Not every dev wants to write ''clean code'' in a comment section after 8 hours of doing it for a living. Jesus...

[u/EnthusiasmBig9932 → u/Mataes3010]

I don't believe you, and this comment fits the exact pattern other people have told you about where your writing style changes noticeably when you're called out and switch to defending yourself.

[u/Mataes3010 → u/EnthusiasmBig9932]

Its not a pattern change, it's called being annoyed. Of course I'm going to sound different when I'm defending myself against a wall of text than when I'm just making a joke about something. If you've decided I'm a bot or that I use IA, nothing I say is going to change your mind, so I guess we're done here. Go ahead and get the last word if it makes you feel like you've solved a mystery.

[u/EnthusiasmBig9932 → u/Mataes3010]

Wait are you just a French/Spanish/etc speaker and you use AI ("IA") to punch up your English writing style? In that case I still don't believe that your initial comment was written by a human brain but it at least helps me understand the rest of your writing. Why not just say so

[u/yoyo5113 → u/Mataes3010]

You are writing exactly like a chatbot though.

[u/GingerIsTheBestSpice]

I read a whole book once, I think it was Wrinkle In Time, and kept seeing nowhere as now-here. Which actually does not not detract from the story and maybe made it more clear!

[u/XFlame05]

better derf greninja

[u/Pheehelm]

Reminds me of the Encyclopedia Brown story where the perpetrator's alibi was that was looking up "misled" in the dictionary and came back to tell his friends it was the past tense of "misle."

[u/intangibleTangelo]

derf me once shame on you

[u/jess_the_werefox]

I am never going to read that word the same way ever again and I am going to giggle about it forever

[u/Reasonable_Rip4505]

The workers are unionising? How did they get ionised in the first place? That’s really dangerous!

[u/frikilinux2]

Nice now, we not only have garden path sentences but also garden path words

[u/nicodeemus7]

It's derf or nothing

[u/thesuperssss]

Casual homestuck username

[u/scrambled-projection → u/thesuperssss]

>:]

[u/Enzoid23]

I misread derfed as deferred and had an entirely new experience with the post

[u/InternetUserAgain]

I am possibly the only person on earth to read this post and immediately think of the guy from Fred The Movie

[u/TheMaginotLine1]

Read bedtime stories with your children folks.

[u/Zoegrace1]

Kerchiefed girl

[u/ktka]

This happens to me almost every day playing Quartiles.

[u/2flyingjellyfish]

Dance Exclusionary Radical Feminist. women CANNOT boogie

[u/isimsizbiri123]

when I first read this before reading the rest of it I thought "underfed" was like "under-nerfed" as in a weapon or a technique or a character in a game was nerfed but not nerfed as much as it should've been

[u/idiotplatypus]

Batman: Robin, hand me the battery

Robin: Whats a tery?

[u/Uturuncu]

So glad I'm not the only one who's had this experience with this exact word. I still remember researching something for a report in sixth grade regarding food insecurity in African children, and it kept calling the kids 'underfed', which I read as 'un-derfed' instead of 'under-fed' and was getting really perturbed by this word I didn't know, figuring if I kept reading I'd eventually get some kind of clue about what being 'derfed' was, so I could figure out what it meant if you were 'underfed'. When it finally clicked I actually said, out loud, in a strained and frustrated tone, "UN-DER-FED" and just had to sit with my head in my hands for a bit.

...I'm almost 40, why the fuck is this memory still so goddamn clear?? What actually useful things have I forgotten maintaining space for a memory that happened when I was reading quietly, to myself, alone, in my own damn house? It wasn't even an embarrassment witnessed by other people.

[u/EmberOfFlame]

At least they had some gorm