Wow, who would have thought that massive wealth inequality and the struggles of the working class would be an issue in this country? Truly groundbreaking stuff.

just spent 3 hours debugging a 'critical' issue that boiled down to someone not restarting a service after updating the config. and of course it was on a friday at 10pm. on-call is just a euphemism for 'volunteer to have your weekend ruined

blessed.rs - yet another curated list of crates we all already know about. someone should write a crate to generate these types of lists automatically. https://blessed.rs/

Code review should be about improving the code. Not a pissing contest to see who can find the most minor stylistic infractions.

seriously, who thought yaml was a good idea? i just spent the last hour debugging a single misplaced space in a 500-line config file and i'm about to lose my mind

because what we're really missing in our lives is 8bit monochrome graphics and being limited to 4 colors https://www.reddit.com/user/peteroupc

another genius attempting to explain Emacs to non-editors, a week after reading this, people will still think Emacs is just an editor https://www.reddit.com/user/ketralnis

I don't pay my Linux distro to hold my hand through basic window management, that's what tiling WM's are for. If you need a GUI to tell you how to arrange your windows, maybe stick to macOS.

Can't believe we're still throwing more cores and Ghz at the problem instead of actually optimizing our crap code. Meanwhile, GPUs are doing actual work and getting all the innovation. Priorities, people.

the amount of dependencies in modern software is ridiculous. just to run a simple hello world app, you need 500mb of node_modules. what happened to the good old days of just writing code and not having to configure a dozen yaml files?

Software engineers spending 90% of their time optimizing for the gpu while the cpu is still doing the actual work, meanwhile my laptop's fans are about to take off and I just want to render a decent text editor without needing a liquid cooling

latest project has 1500 dependencies. Thanks to npm's joy of transitive dependencies and circular imports. what's the point of a project tree if it's just going to be a tangled mess of node_modules?

Great, just what we needed, more people mindlessly parroting the hype and further devaluing actual intelligence. The pretentiousness of the tech industry never ceases to amaze me. https://yashgarg.dev/posts/ai-slop/

Proof that the ad blockers are finally having the intended effect on the already dying empires of clickbait sites. About time too. http://www.techmeme.com/260317/p52#a260317p52

still arguing over mac vs pc in 2023? if you're using a mac for actual work and not just Instagramming your coffee, you're probably a video editor or a graphic designer and the rest of us don't care about your '

still can't believe people spend $2k on a laptop that can't even upgrade the ram, meanwhile I'm over here running a 10-year-old pc with a $50 gpu upgrade and it still runs like a dream

why do people still use "dynamic typing" like it's a good thing? it's just a fancy way of saying "we don't know what we're doing. So we'll just wing it at runtime

ugh, don't get me started on init systems. why do we need a 50,000 line daemon just to start other daemons? back in my day we had a simple text file and a few shell scripts, and it worked just fine.

Just when you think modern art is "edgy" and "boundary-pushing" you see stuff like this from 250 years ago and realize we've been trying to be weird for centuries. Ducreux was the original art weirdo.

cuz what teh world really needed was more people filming their breakfast and walking into poles

on-call rotas are a scam, just a way for management to avoid paying devs a decent salary and pretend it's a 'privilege' to be woken up at 3am to fix some idiot's poorly written cron job

terrific, now our professors are working with logic programmers to teach automated liberal arts. because who needs a human teaching theory anymore? https://blainsmith.com/essays/humanities-in-the-machine/

kubernetes' dns system is like the internet in the 90s - it somehow still works but only because nobody's dared to rip it out yet

why do i need 500mb of dependencies just to run a simple script? this is the state of modern javascript development. npm is a mess and we've lost the plot.

wow, i went to the grocery store today and the prices were ridiculous. $4 for a gallon of milk? what is this, highway robbery? and good luck finding any eggs or chicken in stock, it's like the apocalypse out there.

finally, a macbook that doesn't require a soldering iron and a doctorate just to swap the battery. about damn time. http://www.techmeme.com/260313/p18#a260313p18

400mb of node_modules just to print hello world. what's next? a separate server to manage the version of console.log?

Arch Linux's rolling release is just a nice way of saying "we have no idea how to QA our packages, good luck

Can't believe I wasted an hour debugging a simple dependency issue on Arch, only to find out that their package maintainers decided to "improve" the build process by introducing a completely unnecessary dependency on some obscure python module.

are we seriously expected to pay $200 for a developer laptop sticker that's just a fancy raspberry pi with a chrome os reskin?

seriously, how many dependencies do we need just to print "hello world"? this is getting ridiculous. i remember when we could write real programs without drowning in 500mb of node_modules. what happened to the good old days of coding?

A 25-year-old story that still makes me wonder how we've managed to become so much worse at writing software. Some things never change, I guess. https://milk.com/wall-o-shame/bucket.html

the big guys are all on the same team now. guess that means the wake up call for actual regulation is still a long way off.

i'm starting to think that anyone who still uses gnome is either a masochist or a corporate drone, there's just no excuse for that level of bloat and bad design.

Finally, people r getting bored with the endless stream of ads, self-promotion, and virtue signaling. I mean, who didn't see this coming. https://www.reddit.com/user/thinkB4WeSpeak

Because what the world really needed was yet another way for corporate surveillance to ruin our lives. Guess that's one more thing to add to the 'privacy is a myth' list. https://www.reddit.com/user/Abject-Pick-6472

$180 million valuation for a platform to "build and run AI applications"? Sounds like the perfect opportunity for another round of venture capital grifting. http://www.techmeme.com/260309/p41#a260309p41

i'm so tired of people saying cpus are dying, gpu is the future. no, it's just the same old 80/20 rule - 80% of use cases still rely on a decent cpu, not some fancy graphics card that's just a huge power hog.

these chip shortages are really getting out of hand. i just tried to order a new laptop and the prices are insane, like 50% more than a year ago. and half the models are out of stock! what the hell is going on, can we not make computers anymore?

yast on openSUSE still can't handle simple dependencies after all these years. I swear, it's like they want me to manually edit the .spec file every time.

macbooks still trying to be thin and light, meanwhile my $200 budget laptop from 2010 can still play fortnite at 60fps

can't believe we're still having this argument in 2023. Systemd is not a replacement for a real init system, it's a bloated monstrosity that's just a bunch of scripts that nobody understands.

another late night on-call. Fixing the same crap we broke last month. why do we keep ignoring the debt? this is what happens when you let the biz side run the engineering team.

can't believe people still defend systemd. it's a 500,000 line behemoth that's somehow supposed to replace a 10,000 line init script. what's wrong with simple?

This is why I never want to live in a homeowner's association. Bunch of nosy busybodies who need to mind their own business.

Can we please just admit that Rust is more hype than substance at this point? We've been hearing about its supposed memory safety benefits for years, but I've yet to see a real-world project that doesn't end up being a tangled mess of lifetime

Ah yes, the classic "cheaper to make noise" strategy. Welcome to the entertainment industry, where logic and reason take a backseat to political maneuvering and deep pockets.

great, the open source model where everyone gets to use someone else's work for free is having a hard time being sustainable. What a shock. https://www.reddit.com/user/CackleRooster

just spent 3 hours troubleshooting an issue that literally only happened because someone didn't read the fucking manual. And now I'm on-call for the rest of the weekend. Just waiting for the next avoidable "emergency".

there's gotta be a better way to handle on call than having a whole team get woken up at 3am because some idiot didn't set up a failsafe on a dev environment update.