Post smarmy assholes you find when searching for tech questions

[ditto]

Jonathan Blow himself being a storied veteran in condescending, elitist opinions, and also an outspoken opponent of IDEs and various other modern toolchain software.

Does any of that survive? I had to go trawling through archive.org for that Michael L quote.

 

[Ledj]

Does any of that survive? I had to go trawling through archive.org for that Michael L quote.

It's all throughout his own Youtube / Twitch archives; any video involving JAI compiler development or his Sokoban engine is fertile ground for an elitist rant, especially when he's answering viewer questions.

Talks like this summarize his contemporary stance on programming (anti-IDE, anti-toolchain, anti-C++) but lack the unfiltered fervor that often manifests on his streams.

 

[Bongocat]

Imagine not using an IDE, it's like driving a horse and buggy because cars are too easy. I'd prefer not to get a manual or google every classes API.

In the broader category of smarmy assholes, I absolutely cannot stand the general (and pervasive) attitude that you shouldn't use X because Real Men™ don't use X.

Yeah, you know what, it's good for you to bang rocks together with assembly in your terminal interface once in a while... but not at work. I know dipshits who refuse to use tools and refuse to use 3rd party libraries when they're being paid to get the job done as fast as possible. They'll spend weeks and months writing shit they could have pulled verbatim off of github. And they're doing it at the peril of their businesses.

I've worked at and with a lot of small software companies, and let me tell you, the ones that survive are the ones that are particularly nazi-ish about not letting employees get away with that. They have dedicated review sessions to make sure that nobody wrote anything substantial that could be found with a 10 minute google search.

 

[Kosher Dill]

In the broader category of smarmy assholes, I absolutely cannot stand the general (and pervasive) attitude that you shouldn't use X because Real Men™ don't use X.

I would be remiss in not linking the classic here.

Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal

 

[KEKleon]

I would be remiss in not linking the classic here.

Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal

"Real programmers don't use comments"

Bruh.

 

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"Real programmers don't use comments"

Bruh.

It's pretty obviously a wind-up. I would be interested to read any later writings by Post on the subject.. I think most of us can agree that it's fine to make fun of 'real programmers' who reject the use of structured loop constructs because 'you can just do it with a GOTO' but it would be ironic if he'd lost his shit over OOP or something similar.

 

[Fools Idol]

There has been many a time when I've need help with an emulator or emulated game, only to be grilled by the fucking Spanish Inquisition as to how I got the BIOS or ISO or whatever. If I have the files then what difference does it make how I got them? Why am I even being questioned? Why am I being accused of, what is apparently the worst thing you can do on the Internet? Why are they so smug at the idea of caching me red-handed?

I'm not going to stop torrenting just because some Reddit fuck boy needs to defend a company from piracy, a company that thinks their emulation is theft anyway. I wouldn't mind so much if I thought these people where adhering to some misplaced sense of moral outrage at me "stealing" ones and zeros from a company that wouldn't let me buy them even if I wanted to, but I know all of them pirate themselves.

Soulless company "A" doesn't give a fuck how legal your emulation is, they don't give a fuck how much of a good boy you've been in public, they still want to see you in court.

 

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There has been many a time when I've need help with an emulator or emulated game, only to be grilled by the fucking Spanish Inquisition as to how I got the BIOS or ISO or whatever. If I have the files then what difference does it make how I got them? Why am I even being questioned? Why am I being accused of, what is apparently the worst thing you can do on the Internet? Why are they so smug at the idea of caching me red-handed?

I'm not going to stop torrenting just because some Reddit fuck boy needs to defend a company from piracy, a company that thinks their emulation is theft anyway. I wouldn't mind so much if I thought these people where adhering to some misplaced sense of moral outrage at me "stealing" ones and zeros from a company that wouldn't let me buy them even if I wanted to, but I know all of them pirate themselves.

Soulless company "A" doesn't give a fuck how legal your emulation is, they don't give a fuck how much of a good boy you've been in public, they still want to see you in court.

if you're asking the developer of say, an Apple Mac 68k emulator 'where to get BIOS' on a forum that they run for 'people who totally own 68k Macs that they backed up the BIOS from', they have good reasons not to incriminate themselves

 

[Fools Idol]

if you're asking the developer of say, an Apple Mac 68k emulator 'where to get BIOS' on a forum that they run for 'people who totally own 68k Macs that they backed up the BIOS from', they have good reasons not to incriminate themselves

I've asked fairly innocuous questions about bugs or performance issues and got the third degree. Why do people need to know where I got the files from? I could understand if how the files were ripped was the problem but that's never the case. I'm not asking people to incriminate themselves in anything, I just want help in using the files and/or software I already have.

 

[Friendly Primarina]

Found this mod author on NexusMods. Fuck this guy:

 

[Pissmaster]

if you're asking the developer of say, an Apple Mac 68k emulator 'where to get BIOS' on a forum that they run for 'people who totally own 68k Macs that they backed up the BIOS from', they have good reasons not to incriminate themselves

Ironically, those are some of the easiest BIOS files to find:

I figure Fools Idol was talking about the kind of pricks you see on GameFAQs that act like Sony's gonna go out of business if you dare download SCPH-1001.bin for use with ePSXe.

 

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Ironically, those are some of the easiest BIOS files to find:
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I figure Fools Idol was talking about the kind of pricks you see on GameFAQs that act like Sony's gonna go out of business if you dare download SCPH-1001.bin for use with ePSXe.

Fair. I'm really not sure what the right answer to this is TBH. Like you don't want to be creating the 'impression' that the only people using your open source project are pirates who don't own a PSX, but at the same time even if anyone was really extracting these ROMs from the original chips, that sounds a lot easier to fuck up than just downloading them off the web.

 

[Stasi]

Fair. I'm really not sure what the right answer to this is TBH. Like you don't want to be creating the 'impression' that the only people using your open source project are pirates who don't own a PSX, but at the same time even if anyone was really extracting these ROMs from the original chips, that sounds a lot easier to fuck up than just downloading them off the web.

I think the sites and forums that don't host the files just don't want the ass pain and risk of dealing with take down notices and possibly legal action from game companies which I can understand and all their disclaimers are basically ass covering.

What gets me are the users. I can't believe people are still debating the ethics of emulating 30 year old games in 2020. Even saw some guy reeeing about it on vr of all places a few weeks back. Was a nintendo fan so probably mentally ill or a manchild but still.

The only reason these companies even give a shit is because they realised they can milk idiots for cash by selling them the same game 10 times over. If you are going to emulate go nuts, no need for mental gymnastics.

 

[Aqua Panda]

I got hit with the "you have a blu-ray drive in your desktop lol" bit when I was discussing tech setups recently.

Yes, I have a home theater setup and use my computer as my primary player for space reasons. I also keep the discs around so I don't have to go buy huge and multiple hard drives. (I've already maxed out all my sata and m.2 ports. Really don't feel like labeling generic external hard drives.) Also, my work refuses to use the cloud for security reasons and defaults to burning data on blank blu-rays. I need to sometimes bring work home and need a way to access the data.

Yet, I get the "discs are so outdated man" spiel. One of the things that desktops are supposed to excel at is modularity for user needs. Christ, I'd still have a 3.5 inch floppy drive installed if I could for a few ancient family genealogy programs I have.

As for linux, I gave up on that community as a whole years ago due to the autism. I still like the idea of an open OS and still tinker with it for hobby projects, but no longer follow the day to day goings on.

 

[AmpleApricots]

What hits me the worst about the Linux community is how there's always some new fad or fashion to follow and the old tools and programs and workflows you have been using are just OBSOLETE. Just like that. Somebody said so. You have to use the new thing and you better do else enjoy dealing with weird exasperated questioning why you don't. All the time. For a community that often prides itself that their OS is about choice there's really lots and lots of people that really hate choice and want everyone to use the same thing or else. It's especially grating when the shiny new thing objectively works worse than the old thing and people pretend in front of each other that the new way is so much better when it clearly isn't and nobody really understands how that particular piece of over-engineered crap really works and uses it wrongly as a result.

Goes honestly for most communities these days. I feel everything that reaches some threshold of popularity gets overtaken by the same kinds of people that are in it for the social aspect and all the backstabbing and clique-building and politics that entails and couldn't care less about the actual merits of the topic at hand. This whole online thing has become really tiresome in some regards. That's why I honestly sometimes wonder if I should even care if some retard politician blows it all up in some retarded way.

 

[byuu]

It's especially grating when the shiny new thing objectively works worse than the old thing and people pretend in front of each other that the new way is so much better when it clearly isn't and nobody really understands how that particular piece of over-engineered crap really works and uses it wrongly as a result.

It's funny how every time a Linux DE becomes usable, they throw everything away for something new that barely works.
See Gnome 2 -> 3 and KDE 3 > 4.

 

[Dick Justice]

It's funny how every time a Linux DE becomes usable, they throw everything away for something new that barely works.
See Gnome 2 -> 3 and KDE 3 > 4.

Are we talking about the same community? Gnome 3 was so reviled it led to MATE.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Can't find it now because search engines in Current Year are a joke, but on Quora someone asked if there was a way to get around CMYK mode making screen colors "muddy", to print bright RGB colors. The top response was from a graphic designer who pretty much said "You have to accept the limits of CMYK or give up on graphic design. Grow up." - yes, he actually said "grow up".

Again, all the one asking the question was asking was how to print screen colors that get "diluted" by conversion to CMYK.

update: found it

Grow up take responsibility for your work and your designs. If not you don’t want to learn and practice the basics of modern graphic arts then stay out of it.

the question was:

"How do you get around the colours available in CMYK mode? Purples and blues don't look right from the transition from RGB."

 

[Bongocat]

Found on a comments section for a disk space analysis tool

Never forget the 6 million files.

 

[Stasi]

Found on a comments section for a disk space analysis tool

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Never forget the 6 million files.

I've had both windows and linux eat up massive chunks of my drive because of OS bugs by creating random files that balooned in size for some reason. No way could you find that 20gb txt file buried in your c drive without disk analyzer software.

Not only is that a useless comment it is also extremely stupid.