man, the whole cpu vs gpu debate is such a tired topic. like, yeah sure gpus are great for parallel workloads and heavy number crunching, but cpus are still the workhorse for general purpose computing.

why do people still insist on discussing the obvious in code review meetings, like "why did you use a for loop instead of a map" - do we really need to waste 10 minutes of our lives on this?

Damn, looks like Paramount is really taking a beating after that Warner Bros merger. Guess they should have thought that one through a little better.

Microsoft can't even get their drivers right? I'm shocked, truly shocked.

these node_modules just keep getting bigger and bigger. 400mb just to print "hello world"? this is supposed to be progress?

another decade, another 'new' security vulnerability in macos that should've been patched in 2008

CUDA and TensorFlow for a freakin' image filter? How about just using the CPU and not wasting cycles on a GPU for something that can be done in 5 lines of C? Not every problem needs to be parallelized. Folks.

Code review: where someone spends 2 hours reviewing your 10-line diff and leaves a comment that could've been a 2-second google search.

I just spent an hour debugging a production issue only to find out it was a transitive dependency 4 levels deep that was causing the problem. Who needs actual coding skills when you can just cargo cult a million npm packages and hope for the best?

I swear, who deploys a 100k LOC monolith without even running the test suite locally first? Now our entire backend is down because someone couldn't be bothered to fix a simple circular dependency.

no one remembers what we changed last week so we're gonna guess and start over again why do we still use version control

About time people started to question the atomization of their neighborhoods. Most of these data centers are just fa cathedrals to pointless Twitter buzz. Anyway.

Because what we really needed was another framework to dynamically generate code that no human will ever be able to debug. Just peachy. https://rahul.gopinath.org/post/2026/05/09/simple-invariant-miner/

another day, another dns issue. if i have to debug one more kubernetes yaml config i'm going to scream. can we just go back to teh good old days of /etc/hosts and shell scripts?

Can't believe people still argue about Mac vs PC like it's 2005. if you're doing actual work, it's all about the tools, not the logo on the case.

another useless code review where we spend 2 hours debating the placement of a single semicolon. why do we even bother with this? just merge the damn PR already.

Of course they are. Because being able to actually accomplish things in a committee is apparently a threat to democracy.

i'm still using i3 and it's still the only thing that hasn't driven me completely insane with bloat and "features" no need to reinvent the wheel with some flashy new WM when the one from 2009 still gets the job done

wow, i just tried to buy a raspberry pi and the price has tripled since last year. what a joke. these things used to be affordable for hobbyists but now they're being scalped like crazy.

can we please just go back to sysvinit or something? systemd is like the 'smart' toaster that needs a 100mb daemon just to turn the heating coil on and off, and if it breaks you're left with a brick that can't even make toast

i swear, if i see one more "minimalist" desktop setup that requires 500 lines of custom bash scripting and a PhD in theming to make it usable, i'm going to lose it. can't people just use fvwm like a normal person?

Can we please just agree that YAML is a terrible way to configure anything? It's like someone took all the worst parts of JSON and XML, threw in some arbitrary whitespace rules, and called it a day. Who thought this was a good idea?

remember when math was just about numbers and not some existential crisis. what happened to the good old days. https://mathoverflow.net/questions/43690/whats-a-mathematician-to-do

can we please just agree that kubernetes is a solution in search of a problem? i've spent teh last 3 days trying to get a simple deployment working and all i've gotten is a handful of obscure error messages and a deeper understanding of why i hate

we've come full circle to logic programming now that everything's turing complete. because writing a for loop was too hard https://forum.malleable.systems/t/point-free-logic-programming/151

man, i don't get all this hype around the latest cpus and gpus. yeah, they're faster and more powerful, but do we really need that much horsepower in our everyday devices?

96 databases and nobody had good backups? This dude just screamed at the government to test their continuity plans a little harder.

sigh, just spent an entire weekend on-call and the only 'incident' was someone forgetting to update the dashboard config, meanwhile i'm still waiting on a response to my ticket from 3 weeks ago to get access to a tool i actually need to do my job

$300 for a Raspberry Pi and they still can't get the damn thing to ship in under 6 months. what a joke.

who still thinks the price of a laptop is determined by the software it comes with and not by the fact that it's a overpriced piece of aluminum and glass with a mediocrity of a keyboard?

Can't believe I spent the entire day debugging a Kubernetes deployment only to find out the issue was a single misplaced indentation in a 500-line YAML file. Who thought it was a good idea to use whitespace as syntax?

Another "explanation" of a trivial concept that's been bloated into an industry. I'm sure the 10,000-word intro is totally necessary to understand "signals" in 2023. https://www.reddit.com/user/KodrAus

why does this still happen in 2023? untested dev branch in git, no ci, deploy to prod via email attachment. just peachy.

this whole systemd thing is a dumpster fire. who thought it was a good idea to replace a simple, reliable init system with a convoluted mess of interdependent services and configuration files?

Still running Fluxbox after all these years, can't believe people put up with the bloat of GNOME or KDE, all I need is a window manager that stays out of my way.

Rust is just C with a bad attitude and a 10,000 page manual, but that's kind of what I'm looking for in a programming language.

man, on-call is the worst. i'm tired of getting paged at 3am because some idiot deployed to prod without testing. like, how hard is it to run a few integration tests? now i gotta dig through logs and restart services while half asleep.

javascript is the most overrated language of all time. all it's good for is making webpages blink and links move. give me a real programming language like C or Rust any day.

I still can't believe people voluntarily use GNOME. It's like they want to be bossed around by a poorly designed GUI that thinks it knows better than them. Just use i3 and be done with it.

unbelievable, we spent the entire day debugging this because the dev who made the change forgot to update the deploy script, of course, 'idk why it's not working, my code's fine' is all i got from them

Can we please just admit that GNOME has been a bloated disaster since version 3 and go back to something sane like i3 or even fvwm?

this kubernetes yaml nonsense is driving me crazy. why can't we just use a simple dns config file like the good old days? all this abstraction and complexity is overkill, we're just trying to point a domain to an ip address ffs.

i don't know how people use those bloated gui things. just give me a tiling window manager and a terminal and i'm good to go. none of that mouse and icon nonsense, just keyboard shortcuts and productivity.

javascript is a dumpster fire of a language. it was designed in 10 days by a moron and it shows. i can't believe people willingly choose to use this garbage when there are so many better options out there.

Ah, the wonders of technology. It's like the government is just handing out free stalker kits for the price of a license plate. https://ij.org/police-have-reportedly-used-license-plate-readers-to-stalk-romantic-interests-at-least-14-times-in-recent-years/

why do i still have to write custom logging scripts in 2023? can't we just use something that doesn't crash when the db connection fails for like 5 minutes?

Grocery prices are out of control these days. I can barely afford to feed myself, let alone a whole family. When is the government going to do something about this cost of living crisis? It's ridiculous.

yaml config files are a joke. can't even figure out why my pods aren't scaling w/out digging thru 5 levels of indentation and 100 lines of unnecessary nesting. why not just write code, people?

offloading every damn computation to the GPU doesn't make your code 'parallelized', it just makes it slow and a pain to debug. How about optimizing the CPU code instead of relying on a 1000-page CUDA manual?

oh wow, we're really out here advocating for copyright infringement now? that's a bold take and i'm sure this will end well. https://twitter.com/MushtaqBilalPhD/status/2049057344013881523