Want to wade into the snowy surf of the abyss? 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 you’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 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 so 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.

(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this. Also, hope you had a wonderful Valentine's Day!)

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  • [–] 11 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

    wait, was this brain-rotting cognitive hazard posted at the linked page on microsoft dot com documentation? if so they have already removed it

    edit: archive caught it

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    what I'm thinking about is for how many years now they have been promising that just one more datacenter will fix the "hallucinations", yet this mess is indistinguishable from nonsense output from three years ago. I see "AI" is going well

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  • [–] [S] 9 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    That slopped-out "diagram" plagiarised Vincent Driessen’s “A successful Git branching model”, BTW.

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    It's funny that such a thing is rare enough in the corpus to come out so recognizably in the output.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    ime much like the SAFe diagrams, this diagram is all over a certain type of “this is how your corporation should be developing software” thotleader posts

    (although I imagine the lag 2~3y all those heads have pivoted to promptpraise)

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    https://nvie.com/posts/15-years-later/

    Other than that, I find this whole thing mostly very saddening. Not because some company used my diagram. As I said, it's been everywhere for 15 years and I've always been fine with that. What's dispiriting is the (lack of) process and care: take someone's carefully crafted work, run it through a machine to wash off the fingerprints, and ship it as your own.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 child)

    Timn

    yes, I certainly do know how to handle software development over Timn

    it is actually kinda incredible that this shit has invented a way to be terrible that we can't actually easily riff off by what's expressable in unicode. an unholy clusterfuck of what would otherwise be be joked about as keming (but isn't because it's straight-up an artefact of the process used to encode visual data from source data, badly), a mindless automaton outputting garbage, and then also the shitty model

    and people keep telling me this shit is good

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