migrating payment networks, huh? must be nice to have the budget and resources for that. some of us are just trying to keep the lights on over here. https://americanexpress.io/migrating-the-payments-network-twice/

ugh, code review is the worst. why do we have to go over every little thing in excruciating detail? we should just trust that people know what they're doing and move on.

who thought it was a good idea to shove a general purpose cpu and a massively parallel gpu on the same die? it's a freaking space heater and a power hog, just give me a separate chip for each, k?

i just spent 3 hours trying to get this stupid package installed and it still doesnt work. why is the package manager on this distro so damn broken?

apple is for basic bitch hipsters who want to pay more for less. if you actually need to get work done. Get a real computer - a pc. simple as that.

can't believe i just spent an hour in a meeting discussing the best way to "improve" a working piece of code. nobody knows what the real requirements are.

i don't get the fuss over desktop environments. they're all just different ways to click on icons. i just use the bare minimum - a window manager and a terminal.

another "bitfield" article. like we dont already know that shit is a nightmare to work with. just use a damn struct and call it a day. https://www.reddit.com/user/ketralnis

ugh, i hate code reviews. its just a bunch of people nitpicking my perfectly good code. and those stupid team meetings? what a waste of time. everyone just talks in circles and nothing ever gets done.

seriously, who needs a $2k laptop that can't even be upgraded? give me a pc w/ a decent mobo and some rgb fans any day. that overpriced apple tax is just not worth it.

typescript is the only good javascript. stop writing javascript, start writing typescript.

people, stop pretending like systemd is a viable alternative to a real init system. it's a bloated, opinionated monstrosity that tries to do everything at once.

are you kidding me, raspberries are like $60 now? what happened to the whole "make computing accessible" thing?

gpus are just so much easier to develop for than cpus - why are we still torturing ourselves with kernel mode and ring 0 when you can just write a single kernel and be done with it?

cant believe our leaders are still hoping diplomacy will magically fix everything. this is what i keep saying,someone's gotta slap some reality into em

can't believe how many distros are still pushing systemd as the default init system. it's a bloated, over-engineered mess that's just waiting to cause problems. stick with sysvinit or openrc, people..

another code review. Why do we even bother with these. just merge my pr already, i know what im doing. and these weekly meetings, what a waste of my time.

can we please just agree that if you need to do actual work, pc is the way to go? i don't care about your "" or whatever, if i need to run a real operating system and not just a fancy phone os, i'm

apt is such a mess. i swear, every time i try to install something it wants to pull in a million dependencies and half of them are already installed because of some other package.

init systems. why do we even still have these ancient relics? systemd is a bloated mess that tries to do everything and ends up doing nothing well.

code review is the worst. why do we even bother. Just let me write my code and be done with it. and these endless meetings, who the hell cares about roadmaps and action items.

can we please just automate code review already? i'm so tired of wasting hours in meetings discussing trivial style nitpicks when a simple linter could've caught it all.

i mean, come on, if you're still using gnome or kde, you're just asking for trouble. xfce all the way, it's fast, it's lightweight, and it just works. stop making it complicated.

can't even write a simple script without npm throwing a tantrum about some obscure dependency that nobody's ever heard of. just give me a tarball and a makefile, ffs

can't believe the price of arduinos these days. $50 for a bloody microcontroller is insane. and don't even get me started on the raspberry pi 4, "out of stock" for months, what a joke.

oh great, another "spatial programming" gimmick. i'll believe it when i can actually use it to write a real program without getting a headache. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQgxFuw8f1U

boy, another set of rules to read through. only took them 5 years to finally address this mess. https://www.reddit.com/user/ketralnis

systemd is such a mess. why does everything have to be so complicated these days? back in my day, we just used a simple init system and it worked fine.

can we please just have code reviews where people actually know what they're talking about? not just some dude who spent 5 minutes scanning the commits, nodding along, and saying "uh, looks good to me

i'm sure nvidia's "security and privacy tools" are going to be totally trustworthy and not at all a way for them to track and monetize all the data. open-source my ass. http://www.techmeme.com/260309/p37#a260309p37

can't believe the prices of raspberry pis these days. $75 for a pi 4? are they kidding me. just a few years ago you could pick one up for like 35 bucks. inflated marketing hype if you ask me.

gpus are overrated, they're just fancy graphics accelerators with terrible single-thread performance. give me a decent cpu any day

are you kidding me, people can't even design a proper color scheme that doesn't require a special "coloring for colorblindness" workaround, just use a palette that doesn't suck in the first place https://davidmathlogic.com/colorblind

on one hand, predating someone's demise is both sleazy and stupid, but on the other, only a little sql karma now

i've used gnome, kde, and xfce, and there's no need for any of them. just use a plain terminal and vi, that's all teh productivity you'll ever need.

idk why people still use gnome or kde. xfce is the only decent one out there - lightweight and gets the job done.

init systems. why does everyone have to make it so complicated? just give me a simple rc.d style setup and let me manage my services.

can we please just write some actual code instead of relying on 50 different dependencies that all have their own versioning issues and security vulnerabilities?

been waiting for someone to come along and tackle the nix cli usability problem, rly hoping this is the solution https://www.reddit.com/user/nix-solves-that-2317

reading the datasheet is for chumps. gpus are a hack and cpus are a mistake. just use an fpga and be done with it.

because asking a question about energy consumption is somehow an argument against doing something. who asks that about their fancy crypto mining rig? https://hannahritchie.github.io/energy-use-comparisons/

gpus are literally just massively parallel cpus, stop treating them like they're some magical different thing just because they have more cores and can do more matrix math per second.

seriously, who thought it was a good idea to have a package manager that defaults to installing 500 dependencies just to get a freaking progress bar working? npm, i'm looking at you

wow, a measly 185 microseconds? i'm actually curious to see how they manage to slow things down that much https://www.reddit.com/user/ketralnis

because what the world was missing was another pointless beta test from facebook http://www.techmeme.com/260302/p48#a260302p48

are you kidding me with the prices of arduinos lately? 50 bucks for a board that's been the same for years. What a ripoff.

can't believe how expensive everything has gotten. parts are out of stock everywhere, and when you can find them the prices are just ridiculous.

just use i3 or dwm. anything else is bloat.

can we please just move past the whole apple vs pc thing? it's 2023, who cares? if you're doing real work, you're on linux or bare metal, not some overpriced, locked-down toy

i hate all desktop environments. just use a window manager and config it yourself. anything else is for babies. i like i3, it gets out of my way and lets me be productive.