Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful youā€™ll near-instantly regret.

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 cutā€™nā€™paste it into its own post ā€” thereā€™s no quota for posting and the bar really isnā€™t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many ā€œesotericā€ right wing freaks, but thereā€™s no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iā€™m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged ā€œculture criticsā€ who write about everything but understand nothing. Iā€™m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyā€™re inescapable at this point, yet I donā€™t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnā€™t be surgeons because they didnā€™t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canā€™t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

Last weekā€™s thread

(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this)

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      the raw, mediocre teenage energy of assuming you can pick up any subject in 2 weeks because youā€™ve never engaged with a subject more complex than playing a video game and you self-rate your skill level as far higher than it actually is (and the sad part is, the person posting this probably isnā€™t a teenager, they just never grew out of their own bullshit)

      given how oddly specific ā€œapplication auth protocolā€ is, bets on this person doing at best minor contributions to someone elseā€™s OAuth library they insist on using everywhere? and when theyā€™re asked to use a more appropriate auth implementation for the situation or to work on something deeper than the surface-level API, their knowledge immediately ends

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        Fun fact: The plain vanilla physics major at MIT requires three semesters of quantum mechanics. And thatā€™s not including the quantum topics included in the statistical physics course, or the experiments in the lab course that also depend upon it.

        Grad school is another year or so of quantum on top of that, of course.

        (MIT OpenCourseWare actually has fairly extensive coverage of all three semesters: 8.04, 8.05 and 8.06. Zwiebach was among the best lecturers in the department back in my day, too.)

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          I almost want to go Twitter diving to see if kache has the requisite unhinged rant about how universities are only making quantum physics hard to get money/because of woke or whatever

          e: holy shit I already regret this

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            yeah, 3b1b animations can take you through all of undergrad math in probably a month if it all existed and you used anki

            We could bottle this arrogance and sell it as an emetic.

            And besides, we all know that mathematics videos peaked with the Angle Dance.

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              as one of many people here who has undergone undergrad math, i reckon a month of youtube and anki might not be enough for even intro to linear algebra. Iā€™m even saying this as someone who skipped all lectures and crammed before all the tests.

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                thereā€™s more

                or you could use something like qrencode that already is a thing and pipe it to image viewer of your choice

                yeah which might it be

                heā€™s also lying box understander

                (idk why these screenshots get stretched to entire width available sometimes and sometimes they donā€™t)

                thereā€™s a lot of this

                we had these since manhattan project. sit tf down

                i think we have different standards on being coherent

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                  • I donā€™t know Matt Mullenweg, but Iā€™m afraid to ask
                  • I love the nonsensical misleading QR code onliner, conflictingly using both echo "<URL>" | and mac-only getoutput("pbpaste") (yuck).
                  • It is famously easy to maintain a job and mental well-being when you have no stable home and few sets of clothes! Famously you donā€™t need a registered address to open a bank account, and you donā€™t need a bank account to get a registered address!
                  • I guess you could run the GPU for 1000 years.
                  • One needs to learn that interpolation = confabulation = useless bullshit.
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                    that one-liner is just ā€¦ mental

                    imagine the fucking brain it takes to go ā€œokay yeah Iā€™ll put this through opencvā€ instead of literally clipboard-paste | qrencode | clipboard-capture

                    just whole brain genius levels of bad

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                  or you could use something like qrencode that already is a thing and pipe it to image viewer of your choice

                  (my bad, I actually just looked at the images earlier, missed that you said that)

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                    ā€¦or just use the qrencodeā€™s -t ANSI256 or -t ANSI256UTF8 output format and read your qr code directly from terminal.

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                finding and looking up information you need effectively is a skill that is both very useful and i donā€™t think itā€™s taught explicitly, itā€™s a byproduct of being taught how to do research more generally. slapping a lying box in its place is not a substitute

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                  but what if the lying box smiled at me and made me feel good about myself, surely that means itā€™s trustworthy right?

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                  i stared into abyss again and he canā€™t grasp why flywheels for energy storage donā€™t work while trying to make happen a startup that sells hardware

                  ā€œqm and fluid dynamics are easyā€ lol

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            yeah donā€™t do it to yourself. I forget how I originally noticed this weirdo, it may have been through amolitor99ā€™s continuous anthropology safari of TPOT freaks. Speaking of which, somebody needs to get that guy over here

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              dammit now Iā€™m going to have to look at twitter

              tpot fresh on my mind, too. just yesterday i was telling someone about how one of the people semi in that cluster had me going šŸ¤Ø and then had to explain a little about some of the highlights of tpot

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            whoaā€¦on second thought, maybe this dude is having a manic episode or something? yeesh!

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      This person has certainly committed to this philosophy, even to the extent of spending less than one week of thought coming to this very conclusion.

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      Oh I certainly did meet a lot of people employed in auth related stuff that clearly spent only 2 weeks on learning anything about OpenID and I certainly didnā€™t not hate their guts and wished they were replaced by a small shell script