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Goes to show you someone can get a PhD in math, do research at a "world class institution", not know what a middle click is, and still be a dick about your tech
by amcoastal 5y ago
Goes to show you someone can get a PhD in math, do research at a "world class institution", not know what a middle click is, and still be a dick about your technical writing. Does wonders for y'alls imposter syndrome eh?
- revolvingocelot 5y agoTechnically yes, but the vast majority of us have met him before. He, or someone like him, teaches Cal I to first-years (because he's gotta teach something beyond his fourth-year five-student moon-man seminar on his inscrutable research focus). Forgive him; he learned TeX before mouses had a scroll-wheel. I had to work with this prototypical fellow once, when I was already out of university; his abilities -- and inabilities -- were stupefying, in both senses of the word.
- adhesive_wombat 5y agoJust think, in 20 years, we'll be bemoaning the neural interface being unusable because it doesn't work just like computers did in 2005-2015ish and we don't get it and kids these days with their jargon like "middle think" being confusing. Hell, it's already started with "the kids" being all-in on bizarre shit like using Discord for everything, and, well, anything about crypto, NFTs, unironically having Internet-capable dishwashers or, indeed, almost anything to do with mobile apps.