Ancestors

Written by David Gerard on 2025-02-03 at 00:51

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 9th February 2025

https://awful.systems/post/3436005

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Written by slopjockey@awful.systems on 2025-02-03 at 16:56

The blue check reaction to the totally cracked treasury zoomers showcases a complete rejection of the importance of domain knowledge. It’s 10x software engineer syndrome metastasized.

They’re saying that the ice cream hair kid - who has never worked on a real world system because he’s STILL IN COLLEGE - is going to do us proud because he translated a greek scroll in high school? Good for him, but so what? Ben Carson split babies in half like Solomon and he’s still a moron.

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Written by Soyweiser@awful.systems on 2025-02-03 at 17:29

Don’t worry they will use ChatGPT to learn all the COBOL they need.

(One of my pet peeves in software is bad documentation (always fun when the comments and the documentation contradict, and after an hour of digging through the email archives you discover both are wrong, and nobody every cared to update either, as the email was enough), but lol if that is what saves the US gov (and look at how bad it has gotten, I’m rooting for the US gov now. If I ever want to be seen as worthwhile I will try to hire Musk to get mad at me, it worked for Zuck (a little bit))).

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Written by nightsky@awful.systems on 2025-02-03 at 18:58

Don’t worry they will use ChatGPT to learn all the COBOL they need.

Oh why would they. They will just rewrite it from scratch in a weekend, right? And reading the original code would only pollute the mind with historic knowledge, and that stands in the way of disruptive innovation.

(btw I appreciate your correctly nested parentheses.)

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Toot

Written by Soyweiser@awful.systems on 2025-02-03 at 19:38

(btw I appreciate your correctly nested parentheses.)

I once fucked those up and people got mad. (I kid, they pointed out I usually use them correctly). I mostly use parentheses to note that im going a bit offtrack, which keeps happening, it is a bad habit.

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Descendants

Written by gerikson@awful.systems on 2025-02-03 at 21:21

balancing parentheses is why I draft all my comments in emacs

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Written by YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems on 2025-02-03 at 22:43

Thank you for implicitly reminding me to take my ADD meds.

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Written by zogwarg@awful.systems on 2025-02-04 at 08:53

Myself I’ve learned to embrace the em dash—like so, with a special shoutout to to John Green—and interleaving ( [ { } ] ).

On mac and linux conveniently short-cutted to Option+Shift+‘-’, windows is a much less satisfying Alt+0150 without third party tools like AutoHotKey.

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Written by khalid_salad on 2025-02-04 at 19:57

I write – for “en dash” and — for “em dash” and I end up looking like an asshole in emails a lot. However, they appear to work correctly here:

en: – en: –

em: — em: —

Also, Gnome Characters can be useful, though I have been looking for a good replacement.

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Written by nightsky@awful.systems on 2025-02-04 at 20:32

I like to use – in plain text too! LaTeX user high five…?

Although I read somewhere recently that some people consider usage of em-dashes as a sign of AI-generated text. Oh well.

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Written by khalid_salad on 2025-02-04 at 22:50

LaTeX user high five…?

I need to finish crying over all my underfull hboxes, can we high-five in the evening?

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Written by self@awful.systems on 2025-02-05 at 07:58

this feels like a pattern too — so many naturally divergent or non-standard (from the perspective of a white American who thinks they own the English language) elements of writing are getting nonsensically trashjacketed as telltale signs that a text must be generated by an LLM. see also paully g trashjacketing “delve” for purely racist reasons and the authors of the Nix open letter having the accusation of LLM use leveled at them by people who didn’t read the letter and didn’t want anyone else to either.

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