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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 26 May 2024 (awful.systems)

submitted 7 months ago by dgerard@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid!

Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.

If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post, there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

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[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Please hire me for AI safety, I create active work place hazards around me and therefore small children and animals are not safe around me, but I really work hard (unless it is cleaning up).

Wonder if he is single.

This post also reminds me of the story I heard about a brilliant but weird math professor who had a tendency to touch walls when he walked around in the building. Eventually, in supreme cargo cult behavior, students also started to touch walls in an unconscious hope this would improve their math skills. Anyway this guys hopes and dreams to be hired would be shattered if he ever hears the people hiring him are a fan of Taleb.

Good that the communities first reaction is saying this is a mh red flag. (It is also a workplace red flag)

[+] gnomicutterance@hachyderm.io 12 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I have worked with a couple of these eager shitwits over the years, and they are awful. they'll effortgraft waaaay into a thing that they think is totes the solution, "deliver" it as "done" (aka "here's a branch that already does all that, we can take it live now"), which all so handily allows them to frame any questions/criticism/etc as "don't you think we need ${problem} to be solved?"

the. fucking. worst.

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 5 points 7 months ago

sudden flashback to when $eagerdev pushed a branch that implemented test-infra steered by ansible.. in which you needed to write secondary, entirely separate, roles/specs for the test-infra thing to "verify"

(didn't even try to hook ansible definitions (frankly I wouldn't want to either (but if ansible weren't so fucking shit at what it does _that whole thing wouldn't have been necessary in the first place)))