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 cutānāpaste it into its own post, thereās no quota for posting and the bar really isnāt that high
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
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)
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I have worked with a couple of these eager shitwits over the years, and they are awful. theyāll effortgraft waaaay into a thing that they think is totes the solution, ādeliverā it as ādoneā (aka āhereās a branch that already does all that, we can take it live nowā), which all so handily allows them to frame any questions/criticism/etc as ādonāt you think we need ${problem} to be solved?ā
the. fucking. worst.
sudden flashback to when $eagerdev pushed a branch that implemented
test-infra
steered by ansibleā¦ in which you needed to write secondary, entirely separate, roles/specs for thetest-infra
thing to āverifyā(didnāt even try to hook ansible definitions (frankly I wouldnāt want to either (but if ansible werenāt so fucking shit at what it does _that whole thing wouldnāt have been necessary in the first place)))