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)

      • skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de
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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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              Oh my god, the incredibly important numpy import and the way itā€™s not even reading the piped input but the clipboard using a shell command of all things are sending me. Is this the expertise you can gain in two weeks?

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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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              I was presuming on ā€œpasting to discord or photoshopā€ type nuisance (given the tweetor), but indeed

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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