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 youāll 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 cutānāpaste it into its own post ā 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.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
Sigh. Love how he claims itās worth it for ālearningāā¦
We already have a thing for learning, itās called ābooksā, and if you want to learn compiler basics, $14000 could buy you hundreds of copies of the dragon book.
$14,000 could probably still buy you a lesser Porsche in decent shape, but we should praise this brave pioneer for valuing experiences over things, especially at the all-important boundary of human/machine integration!
(no, Iām not bitter at missing the depreciation nadir for 996-era 911s, what are you talking about)
Iāve learned so much langdesign and stuff over the years simply by hanging around plt nerds, didnāt even need to spend for a single dragon book!
(although I probably have a samizdat copy of it somewhere)
āEngineering a Compilerā is a better read than the Dragon Book anyway
oi no spoilers ;p
Spoiler: there are no actual dragons in either book š
First thereās no actual wizards in my computer to install and setup software, and now this? If someone tells me that Roko doesnāt even have an actual basilisk I donāt know what Iām gonna do!