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 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 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.

Last week’s thread

(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this)

    • @V0ldek
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      141 month ago

      The what in the what now?

      What a terrible day to tech.

    • @corbin
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      101 month ago

      Thus leading to this sneer on HN. I’m quoting it in entirety; click through for Poe’s Law responses.

      I was telling someone this and they gave me link to a laptop with higher battery life and better performance than my own, but I kept explaining to them that the feature I cared most about was die size. They couldn’t understand it so I just had to leave them alone. Non-technical people don’t get it. Die size is what I care about. It’s a critical feature and so many mainstream companies are missing out on my money because they won’t optimize die size. Disgusting.

      • @froztbyte
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        91 month ago

        gonna have to ship this person a 20d100 kit. maybe custom woodgrain? show some thought, y’know

    • David GerardMA
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      91 month ago

      wtf are NPUs anyway? some specialised vector maths thing?

      • @swlabr
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        161 month ago

        non processing units

      • @froztbyte
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        71 month ago

        inference-tasks focused coprocessor

      • @swlabr
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        51 month ago

        hang on I have another.

        NPU? More like, N-Pee-eeeww!!