N-gated Hacker News2d ago
🎉 Oh, the noble pursuit of creating things everyone despises! Let's celebrate #mediocrity, where developers like Mr. Goedecke can excel at turning groundbreaking ideas into stuff users can't stand. 🚀 Isn't it delightful to see someone brag about fixing bugs in popular features while dedicating their career to making people cringe? 🙃
https://www.seangoedecke.com/working-on-products-people-hate/ #developer #culture #cringe #innovation #bugfixes #HackerNews #ngated
Working on products people hate

WIST QuotationsMar 27

A quotation from Josh Billings

It iz one ov the hardest things on earth for a man to learn,—that he plays a third rate game ov whist.
 
[It is one of the hardest things on earth for a man to learn — that he plays a third-rate game of whist.]

Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
Josh Billings’ Farmer’s Allminax, 1871-09 (1871 ed.)

More about this quote: wist.info/billings-josh/82836/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #joshbillings #cardgames #cards #competitiveness #inferiority #limitations #mediocrity #quality #selfassessment #selfawareness #selfjudgment #whist

Billings, Josh - Josh Billings' Farmer's Allminax, 1871-09 (1871 ed.) | WIST Quotations

It iz one ov the hardest things on earth for a man to learn,—that he plays a third rate game ov whist. [It is one of the hardest things on earth for a man to learn -- that he plays a third-rate game of whist.] Whist was a very popular…

WIST Quotations
William Lindsey Mar 20

"Instead of DEI, we now have WEI: White, Entitled, and Incompetent. ...

Almost none of the members of Trump’s administration have the needed qualifications or experience for their positions, and it shows. Like Trump, they show almost no understanding of American history or how to implement actual policy besides what Trump wants."

~ Pamela Hilliard Owens

#Trump #DEI #woke #diversity #mediocrity #WhiteSupremacy #MaleEntitlement

https://www.wearespeaking.net/p/the-choice-meritocracy-or-mediocracy

The Choice: Meritocracy or Mediocracy

The Trump Administration's Mediocracy Equals Incompetence

We Are Speaking
br00t4cMar 19
tl;dw: Something of a rant about my frustration that the people who hope to be masters of the universe are less cultured and educated than your average C student at a prep school. #Oligarchs #Mediocrity #Meritocracy #Privilege youtube.com/watch?v=1-Rp...

The Oligarchs are Evil, Venal ...
The Oligarchs are Evil, Venal and Dumb as Hell

YouTube
Rod2ik 🇪🇺 🇨🇵 🇪🇸 🇨🇱 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇬🇱☮🕊️Mar 13

El #Pentágono excluye a #fotógrafos por sacar #imágenes "poco favorecedoras" del secretario Pete #Hegseth: "Esto es peor que 'El #cuento de la #criada'" #TheHandmaidsTale

#médiocrity ...

https://www.publico.es/tremending/pentagono-excluye-fotografos-sacar-imagenes-poco-favorecedoras-secretario-pete-hegseth-esto-peor-cuento-criada.html

El Pentágono excluye a fotógrafos por sacar imágenes "poco favorecedoras" del secretario Pete Hegseth: "Esto es peor que 'El cuento de la criada'"

Al parecer el Gobierno de EEUU cree que el límite del esperpento es todavía ampliable.

Rod2ik 🇪🇺 🇨🇵 🇪🇸 🇨🇱 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇬🇱 ☮🕊️Mar 13
El #Pentágono excluye a #fotógrafos por sacar #imágenes "poco favorecedoras" del secretario Pete #Hegseth: "Esto es peor que 'El #cuento de la #criada'" #TheHandmaidsTale #médiocrity ... www.publico.es/tremending/p...

El Pentágono excluye a fotógra...
El Pentágono excluye a fotógrafos por sacar imágenes "poco favorecedoras" del secretario Pete Hegseth: "Esto es peor que 'El cuento de la criada'"

Al parecer el Gobierno de EEUU cree que el límite del esperpento es todavía ampliable.

N-gated Hacker NewsMar 9
📉🤖 Oh, look! Another treatise on why #academia swapped out rational math for the lazy allure of "good enough" #AI. Apparently, #ImageNet and the irresistible siren call of not specifying goals have won over academia's finest. Way to go, Guy Freeman, for enlightening us on how to achieve #mediocrity in the most complex way possible. 🎓💡
https://gfrm.in/posts/why-decision-theory-lost/index.html #rationality #innovation #HackerNews #ngated
Why We Stopped Using the Mathematics That Works – Guy Freeman

Someone asked why decision theory stopped being widely used in AI. The answer involves ImageNet, academic departments, and the seductive power of not having to specify your objectives.

Guy Freeman
N-gated Hacker NewsMar 8
📚 Behold! Yet another nostalgic ode to an editor who supposedly "built" a literary utopia while casually ignoring the sea of #mediocrity 🌊. Apparently, just by championing #Kerouac et al., he single-handedly transformed the #publishing world in his spare time ⏰.
https://newrepublic.com/article/205583/editor-helped-build-golden-age-american-letters #nostalgia #literaryutopia #HackerNews #ngated
The Editor Who Helped Build a Golden Age of American Letters

Malcolm Cowley championed Jack Kerouac and Ken Kesey—and elevated the status of American writing.

The New Republic
WIST QuotationsMar 3

A quotation from Bill Watterson

CALVIN: Dad, are you vicariously living through me in the hope that my accomplishments will validate your mediocre life, and in some way compensate for all the opportunities you botched?

Bill Watterson (b. 1958) American cartoonist
Calvin and Hobbes (1992-12-04)

More about this quote: wist.info/watterson-bill/82486…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #billwatterson #calvinandhobbes #child #compensation #legacy #livingthroughothers #mediocrity #opportunity #parent #validation #vicarious

N-gated Hacker NewsFeb 24
🚨🎉 Breaking news: The AI apocalypse is upon us, and it's coming for your research papers! Watch as the academic world quakes in fear while PIs mourn their dwindling empires of grad student labor 🤖📜. But fear not, AI promises to churn out #mediocrity with unparalleled efficiency—at least it's consistent! 😂🧠
https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=15500 #AIapocalypse #AcademicWorld #ResearchPapers #GradStudentLabor #HackerNews #ngated
Looks Like it is Happening…

For a while now I’ve been speculating about what would happen when AI agents started being able to write papers indistinguishable in quality from those that have been typical of the sad state…

Not Even Wrong