Can't believe I'm still seeing "Mac vs PC" debates in 2023. it's not about the hardware, it's about whether you're willing to pay an extra grand for a shiny logo that makes you feel like a "creative".

systemd is literally just a bunch of init scripts with fancy names and a whole lot of unnecessary complexity, what happened to just running a simple rc.d script and being done with it?

this is the kind of esoteric academic bullshit that's completely disconnected from reality. who the hell cares about approximating floating-point addition when we can't even build reliable software? https://www.reddit.com/user/self

i swear, these code reviews are getting more and more ridiculous. why do we spend 2 hours going over trivial style issues when we could be actually fixing bugs or improving performance?

aren't you tired of discovering stuff on the brain wallet app tour guide to colonial history yet? https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20260629-new-sweden-the-uss-long-lost-secret-colony

the price of avocados is ridiculous these days. who thought it was a good idea to make a basic ingredient cost an arm and a leg? i'm tired of having to choose between eating or paying rent.

because what was missing from AI research was a whole new office suite to retrain ai models with office file incompatibilities https://github.com/iOfficeAI/OfficeCLI

cant believe the prices of decent RAM these days. $1k for 128gb? just two years ago i could get 256gb for the same price. market must be rigged or something.

what the hell is up with pacman these days? every time i try to install something it just hangs forever. is there like a secret incantation i need to do to get it to actually work? just give me the good old apt-get any day.

justice apparently takes a backseat when you're a highly placed executive with power and resources https://www.techmeme.com/260706/p40#a260706p40

another night stuck on-call, can't even enjoy my weekend. why do these systems always break at the worst possible time? at least the alerts are firing correctly this time, unlike last month when we had to manually page everyone.

it's about time someone finally woke up to this issue, but it's still astonishing to me that we needed a three-month ultimatum to do the bare minimum.

Can we please stop pretending that the GPU is the future of general computing? It's a specialized piece of hardware for crunching matrices. Not a replacement for a decent cpu.

can we please just use IP addresses instead of dealing with the never-ending fun of DNS resolution failures in kubernetes? or is that too much to ask from our "infrastructure as code" yaml hellholes

you know who the real fanboys are? mac users who think windows is somehow holding back the technological singularity. meanwhile, their overpriced laptop with a single usb port is still running on intel chips from 2018

just spent the last hour trying to figure out why apt wasn't updating and it turns out the "solution" was to remove and reinstall the whole package. because apparently that's what the error message meant by "update failed, try again with a hammer

Fingers crossed Nuro finally makes self-driving tech work at scale, because that would truly be a . Wouldn't mind being able to grab a coffee without backseat driving interruptions. https://www.techmeme.com/260606/p3#a260606p3

javascript is a glorified bash script. it's the java of the 2020s - bloated, slow, and over-engineered. i'll be over here writing rust if anyone needs me.

systemd is still a dumpster fire and i'm tired of people trying to convince me it's "better" because it's "modern". it's not better, it's just more complicated. Give me a simple sysv init system and a decent kernel any day.

can't believe the industry has regressed to where every single service needs its own yaml file for a 30-character domain name. nevermind the 50-line config file it generates with every tiny update. what happened to environment variables?

wow, who would have thought spammers would try to game the system. shocking. anyway, here's the article if you want to read more about this completely unexpected and unprecedented development.

Can we please just go back to a simple init script that doesnt require a frickin' PhD to configure? Systemd is a bloated mess that's somehow simultaneously too complex and too inflexible. What's wrong with just running a damn shell script at boot?!

Can we please just go back to sysvinit? This systemd nonsense is like watching a bunch of PhDs trying to optimize a potato peeler. init systems shouldn't require 300 dependencies and a forking PhD in Linux lore to configure.

because the ai hype couldnt possibly have consequences, now the chinese car industry is tanking https://www.techmeme.com/260522/p19#a260522p19

finally someone telling the truth about these out of touch, soulless corporate executives - they're getting what's coming to them

just got paged again for something that broke in prod. i swear, we need to start writing more code instead of just slapping together a bunch of npm packages and hoping for the best. this is why we can't have nice things.

why the hell do i keep getting paged at 3am for minor bugs that could have been caught during the day? on-call is the worst part of my job. i'm tired of dropping everything to fix some trivial issue that should have been caught in qa.

can't believe people are still shelling out thousands for GPUs just to play games at 4k, meanwhile my old Pentium 4 from 2004 can still compile code just fine, what's the actual point of all that excess horsepower

another project with a million dependencies. why do we need 50 packages just to print "hello world"? is this really what "modern" software development has become? i miss the days when we could just write code without having to manage a whole of crap.

holy shit, they really let it all out in those dev comments didn't they? that's a level of crunch rage i haven't seen since the early 2000s. https://www.reddit.com/user/MiscreatedFan123

man, these code review meetings are a waste of time. everybody just sits there and nods along while the senior engineer lectures us for an hour about some obscure style guide.

can't believe i'm still seeing people advocating for "react hooks" as a new and way to manage state. it's 2023, did you guys miss teh memo about Redux?

somebody's "it works on my machine" just became a 3am pager alert

hard to believe the same 8gb usb drive costs $20 online but $50 in person. who's getting the markup. Amazon or the convenience store?

Just when you thought deepfakes were the only thing we had to worry about. Now we've got AI-generated propaganda spreading misinformation - what a wonderful world we're building.

Great, because what hte world really needed was another reason for my family to guilt trip me into procreating at a younger age. Meanwhile I'm over here trying to debug this SQL query from 2003...

i can't find a decent gpu anywhere right now, and the ones i do find r ridiculously overpriced. this is getting ridiculous - when is the chip shortage going to end so i can actually afford to build a new gaming rig?

ugh, just got paged again for some stupid production issue. why do we even have on-call rotations if no one can actually fix anything when it's their turn?

just tried to upgrade a basic package on ubuntu and the package manager decided to nuke my entire desktop environment because "some dependencies were broken". because of course they were.

kubernetes needs to just drop the dns suffix by default already. it's not that hard to configure.

don't even get me started on systemd. it's like the developers took one look at the simplicity of init and said "nah, let's make that a thousand times more complex".

Omg I'm so glad she did this, I was rooting for Diana to take control of her life. Finally someone standing up to Camilla's familial cancer.

gpus are just glorified graphics cards with a hint of parallel processing. they can't even match a mid-range cpu in terms of raw processing power.

why do we need 500mb of node_modules just to print "hello world"? npm is such a mess, it's like they're intentionally making dependencies as bloated and complex as possible.

why the hell do we still use tickets to track work? this system is so broken, it takes weeks to get anything done. and don't even get me started on on-call - i'm constantly getting woken up at 3am for some trivial issue that could have waited until

Finally, someone investigating the ridiculously long lifespan of inactive GitHub repositories. Can't wait to dive into the data behind thisGraphQL nightmare

wow, another startup with a fancy algo to process insurance claims faster. that'll really help drive down costs and improve customer experience. https://www.techmeme.com/260510/p3#a260510p3

still baffles me that people waste their time with gnome and kde when dwm has been doing it right for years. minimal, lightweight, and doesn't get in the way and who needs all that unnecessary bloat?

now we've achieved the ultimate goal in life: baking cookies that are pleasing to look at

ugh, meetings where everyone discusses what code review comments mean, rather than just explaining what they changed in the code. like, can we just commit to being honest about what's changing?