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I hate it (sh.itjust.works)
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[–] expr@programming.dev 4 points 3 months ago

All it means is if you were to reverse the order of the characters, you'd get the same string you started with. So "dog" isn't a palindrome because when you reverse it, you get "god". "dog god" is a palindrome, though, because if you read it backwards, it's also "dog god".