[borner791]

In 10 years as a "professional" I've never heard it until the last 6 months. I'm EE so different circles, but closer to pure SW people in those last 6 months.

I'm not a fan.. I don't know why.

[what-the-grump]

Likely because it’s from an old book that few in the gen xyz have read. It’s been transformed to mean ‘understand’ and it’s pretentious to use in regular settings.

I’m a fan of the movie Kin-dza-dza it doesn’t make it acceptable for me to walk around saying ‘Ku’ to strangers.

[GoldenRacer]

And if you do read that old book it has a lot of overt sexism and to me it felt like some sort of incel fantasy (I really enjoy older scifi so understand times were different back then but Stranger in a Strange Land felt over the top). So now I associate that word with all the problematic aspects of the book and assume the person using it is either using the word without having read the book or didn't see a problem with the book when they did read it. Neither really makes me think highly of the person.

[nh23423fefe]

> it’s pretentious to use in regular settings.

so its fine anytime because regular means nothing

[bgro]

Glocking The Coding Interview

[oh_sigh]

I think it would be like a youngish person today walking around using 1980s slang. It seems pretty clear in use that it is a conscious, affected choice.