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[–] 95 points 5 days ago* (15 children)

Ya, I get it that this is the whole joke of the post, but I'm bemused to discover that I'm a slutt datafag.
I had not anticipated climbing to such a pinnacle in my lifetime.

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  • [–] 61 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (12 children)

    I have never heard anyone call computer science "datafag", it's usually called "informatikk" (like "informatics" which you can also say in English), and "slutt" just means end or stop, I have never heard anyone use it to refer to graduating.

    "Fag" does mean "subject" or "field of study", though, so computer science is a "fag", and it might be considered a "realfag" along with the natural sciences, I don't know.

    Edit: I got corrected below, "datafag" is real

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  • [–] 15 points 5 days ago (7 children)

    What newfags and oldfags? Can one triforce while the other cannot?

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  • [–] 8 points 5 days ago (6 children)

    Shit... now I want to know what triforcing is

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  • [–] 9 points 5 days ago (1 child)

    My dad did 'datafag' some 50 years ago, at least I think they called it that. It was the era of 'hullkort' (punchcards). Also I think it should be sluttdatafag all in one word. I seem to remember some old folks referring to graduate degrees as sluttfag. I dont think anyone has ever put 'data' in the middle there though. Sounds like AI hallucination.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 days ago

    You are right, in fact it's still possible to study datafag, I stand corrected: https://uit.no/utdanning/program/795103/informatikk_datafag_-_bachelor

    With regards to "sluttfag", I couldn't find anything real, but Google's AI summary says "Et sluttfag er et fag på videregående skole som blir avsluttet med en standpunktkarakter det gjeldende skoleåret" - so it's the final year of a subject that gives you a grade on your high-school diploma... according to a language model :l

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  • [–] 7 points 5 days ago* (1 child)

    To pull you back just a little "slutt datafag" is an expression for the subject which you are graduating. Or maybe google reads it as a verb + noun, since "slutt" means "stop" or "end" and assumes that "end" means "graduate" in this context. Anyways I don't think it makes sense as a description for a person.

    But you are free to call yourself a "fagperson". This is a very common phrase to describe a person with education.

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