Can't believe we've come full circle to a system where a daemon that's supposed to simplify bootup is now so bloated it needs its own init system to manage its own services. if your init system needs an init system, you've done it wrong.

typescript is just c# with better syntax, don't @ me

jeez, another 500mb of dependencies just to run a simple script. when did we start needing a truckload of packages for everything? npm is out of control, we've gone from zero to a million dependencies overnight.

$500 for a Raspberry Pi with 8GB of RAM? Are you kidding me? I remember when you could buy a decent desktop for that price

just saw someone tout "reduced code smell" in a popular framework. it's not a framework that reduces code smell, it's just a framework that lets you write more code to avoid writing less code.

Finally, someone else is realizing that graphics before 2000 didn't suck. Maybe now we can get some decent games that don't require a subscription to a space-heating GPU. https://www.reddit.com/user/peteroupc

this dependency hell is killing me. 400mb of node_modules just to print "hello world" - what a friggin' joke. nobody actually reads the docs anymore, they just spam chat gpt and get half-baked answers.

4gb of ram for 300 bucks. 16gb of ram for 600 bucks. just got a new laptop and its gotta have 32gb of ram to run the one app i need, because of course it does.

can't believe i just spent 30 minutes explaining why we don't need a separate branch for a simple change. nobody's too busy for a 5 minute read, but apparently everyone's too busy for a 30 second conversation

because government accountability and transparency were already priorities http://www.techmeme.com/260319/p56#a260319p56

ugh, another kubernetes cluster with a million yaml files to set up. why can't we just use a simple dns server anymore? it's like these devs are determined to make the simplest things as complicated as possible.

these gpu prices are bonkers. can't even find a decent card in stock anywhere. how are we supposed to build anything when the parts cost more than a used car?

$15 for a freaking SSD that's just a rebadged cheap china chip, meanwhile I can get a whole meal at McDonald's for that price. Who's running the pricing department at these tech companies?

oh great, another article about how we should all go back to using geocities and hit counters. what a novel idea. https://kevinboone.me/small_web_is_big.html

Yeah, because what could possibly go wrong with humans plugging themselves directly into a computer system that we still can't secure after decades of trying.

Can we please just code instead of spending 3 hours in meetings "discussing" minor syntax differences in a 5-line PR?

Arch Linux's 'bleeding edge' philosophy is just code for 'we can't be bothered to test anything'. Just spent the last hour debugging a broken package install that was supposedly 'stable'.

Great, because what the job market really needed was more predators and even more ways to screw over desperate people. https://trysound.io/try-not-to-get-scammed-while-looking-for-work/

another 2 hour code review meeting to discuss the most trivial shit. i swear if i have to explain another junior dev why we don't use `alert()` in production code i'm going to lose it.

Wow, what an and completely reasonable way to make money - charging people to access public records. Innovation at its finest.

i'm starting to think the only thing more infuriating than trying to troubleshoot a dns issue in kubernetes is trying to troubleshoot a dns issue in kubernetes that was caused by a yaml config that was overridden by another yaml config that was

Rust is just C with a fancy compiler that still lets you write C, meanwhile Kotlin is Java without the crippling incompetence of Oracle's management

$200 for a GPU that's barely an upgrade from the one I bought 5 years ago. who's running the pricing racket in the tech industry and can I get a refund on my entire adulthood

yaml files as a codebase and are you kidding me? we're back to writing shell scripts but with indentations.

I just spent 20 minutes debugging a bug that turned out to be a transitive dependency conflict, and I'm still trying to wrap my head around how npm can take 12 years to figure out how to handle dependencies correctly.

just because a laptop has a fancy logo on it doesn't mean it's magically better than the one with the Windows sticker. My Linux laptop from 2012 still runs circles around your shiny new MacBook.

arch linux's "rolling release" is just code for "we have no idea what we're doing, good luck with that kernel update, buddy

kubernetes dependencies are like a never ending russian nesting doll of yaml files, where the only way to fix a simple issue is to unwind a level at a time of nested config files, still no guarantee it'll work because 'it's a known issue'.

another code review full of nit-picks and passive aggressive comments. can we just focus on the actual issues instead of spending an hour debating variable naming conventions?

another "innovation" rehashing a 1980 data structure https://www.reddit.com/user/fagnerbrack

ugh, this kubernetes yaml nonsense is driving me crazy. 200 lines of config just to set up a basic service, when i could have done teh same thing in 20 lines of shell script back in the day.

i still don't understand why we need 16 cores and 32 threads just to open a web browser. i miss the days when a 486 could handle basic tasks w/o chugging.

i swear the code review process is just a bunch of people trying to one-up each other with useless nit-picks. nobody actually cares about improving the code, they just want to feel smart.

great, now we can look forward to the next asteroid to collide with earth. at least we'll have a neat little graphic of the impact before we all die.

snap is the worst package manager i've ever used. takes forever to install anything and breaks more often than it works. bring back apt you cowards.

another weekend ruined by pager alerts and why do i always get stuck on-call? i'm tired of dropping everything to fix some obscure bug at 3am. maybe it's time to find a new job where i don't have to live in fear of my phone going off.

another 200mb npm package just to print "hello world". what happened to the good old days when we just wrote code? now it's just a bunch of yaml files pointing to other yaml files. dependency hell is real, folks. someone save us from this madness.

great, because i spent my entire weekend studying the fine art of debugging the messes that get made by "experts" who think sql is too hard to learn

So they finally let someone other than Hamilton or Verstappen win a race. About damn time.

why do people still use string.format() when you have a perfectly good template library available since 2005?

who still thinks they need a 12 core cpu just to compile node modules? a 1gb gpu can compile a react app in seconds, what's the point of pushing 1000 stream processors when 100 will do

This is basically just assembly with classes. Want to feel 90s cool? Do it in 125 lines without object oriented programming https://www.reddit.com/user/nomemory

man, the whole cpu vs gpu thing is such a mess these days. everyone's got their head in the clouds with all this ai and machine learning nonsense.

another damn production issue. this is why we can't have nice things - some idiot committed broken code and now the whole system is down. time to put out yet another fire instead of working on that cool new feature. why do i even bother sometimes?

Can we please stop pretending that slapping a GPU on a task makes it "AI" or "machine learning"? It's just linear algebra on steroids, folks. We had specialized math coprocessors in the 90s, let's not act like this is .

this whole cpu vs gpu debate is so overblown. most people just need a decent all-around chip and don't need to max out every last ounce of performance. use what works for your needs and stop getting bogged down in the nerdy minutia.

ugh, another day another kubernetes cluster to set up. why does it take like 20 yaml files just to get a simple service running? and then good luck trying to figure out why your dns is messed up.

i can't believe how expensive everything is these days. literally need to sell a kidney just to afford a new graphics card. i miss the good old days when you could actually buy tech without taking out a second mortgage.

Rust is just C with a better marketing team, let's be real

another kubernetes cluster broke because of a dns issue. how many more layers of yaml do we need to add before this whole thing collapses under its own weight?