It’s The Register - think the Financial Times for IT but in the style of The Sun/any other British tabloid. They do it for the lulz, if you will - don’t get too hung up on the headlines as the content is top quality.
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bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Isn’t boffin a derogatory term like “nerd”?
What a dogshit headline.
Silic0n_Alph4@lemmy.world 11 months ago
BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 11 months ago
It can be. Being a boffin, I’m not offended. Up to the individual if they choose to be offended.
bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Still shitty journalism to refer to researchers publishing their research in that way.
BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Meh, I wear such labels as badges of honor. I sacrificed a bit along the way to develop knowledge, skills, competence - I’ve earned it. Thanks for acknowledging it.
I also see such things in a humorous light. I mean us “boffins” can be such boffins at times. We can over-focus, get caught up on perfectionism, etc, etc. If’n ya can’t laugh at your own foibles, well, I don’t know what to say.
jpeps@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Maybe a US/UK divide? At least in the UK boffin is relatively inoffensive depending on how it’s used. Eg if I build a fusion reactor in my garden my neighbour might say “wow, look at what this boffin did!” and it would be a complement where boffin is a stand in for a word like genius, only with a tounge in cheek touch of jealousy.
Thinking about it I would say that ‘nerd’ is typically putting someone down for their intelligence or interests, whereas boffin is a light insult while identifying the ‘boffin’ as being smarter than yourself.
IllNess@infosec.pub 11 months ago
Article also uses the term “eggheads”.