> humility seems to be in short supply these days.
People claiming to be humble are all over the fucking place these days and Millennials are addicted to wanting that word like crack. The result is that the people bragging about being humble the most are usually narcissists.
Re:Oxide: The Cloud Computer
by throw-DO-178C on Thursday October 26, 2023 @02:16PM
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> Like humor, humility seems to be in short supply these days.
Hmm...maybe I should have referenced:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacred_cow_(idiom)
> The motto of the satirical magazine The Realist was "Irreverence is our only sacred cow".
Humor does seem to exist today, it just has a narrow band-pass filter, with apparent focus on "organic" product marketing.
1. The state or quality of being humble; freedom from pride and arrogance; lowliness of mind; a modest estimate of one's own worth; a sense of one's own unworthiness through imperfection and sinfulness; self-abasement; humbleness.
-- Webster's 1918 Dictionary
Our avionics software was originally spec-ed to not NEED a debugger it was to be of such high quality, but the designer added break point op-codes in the VM anyway. I guess he was aware of the concept of humility, too. ;) Like humor, humility seems to be in short supply these days.