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 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 soo 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.

  • self@awful.systemsEnglish
    7·
    6 months ago

    of course big parts of the orange site are tripping over themselves to call this language clever and… maybe I’m in a particularly bad mood, but I just don’t see it. the syntax looks like a fucking disaster (and I like ML-style languages) and the features seem to be a grab bag of features from existing languages and CS research. it’s basically the kind of testbench language you design to explore the problem space and never release, but here it is with a webpage and a name and papertrail in the docs that point to the designer being a real shithead.

    it’s possible I’m being unfair to the language (its designer definitely seems like a shithead) — is there anything coherent here that I’m just missing?

    • gerikson@awful.systemsEnglish
      9·
      6 months ago

      Re: alternate names based on Nabokov books

      Pale Fire sounds awful and lacks any flair. That’s exactly what an ordinary programmer with no taste would name their work.

      As opposed to an extraordinary programmer with great taste who chooses the most easily misinterpreted novel by Nabokov instead, one that has spawned an entire seamy subculture. Got it, HN.

      • self@awful.systemsEnglish
        61·
        6 months ago

        probably! I was a weird shithead at 19 too, though fortunately not this particular strain of weird shithead