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 youā€™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 cutā€™nā€™paste it into its own post ā€” thereā€™s no quota for posting and the bar really isnā€™t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many ā€œesotericā€ right wing freaks, but thereā€™s no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iā€™m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged ā€œculture criticsā€ who write about everything but understand nothing. Iā€™m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyā€™re inescapable at this point, yet I donā€™t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnā€™t be surgeons because they didnā€™t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canā€™t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

Last weekā€™s thread

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

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      Alignment? Well, of course it depends on your organizationā€™s style guide but if youā€™re using TensorFlow or PyTorch in Python, I recommend following PEP-8, which specifies four spaces per indent level andā€¦

      Wait, youā€™re not working in AI the what are you even asking for?

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        Good sign of a crank is wanting to solve the biggest problem in the field (or more like several fields) with this one easy trick. Amazing others are now following yuds lead.

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          I think in this case the crankery is wanting to solve a problem that doesnā€™t even exist, i.e. ā€œhow to make sure the machine god is not evilā€