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?

i've tried everything from gnome to dwm and i keep coming back to xfce. it's lightweight, customizable, and just gets out of my way so i can focus on work instead of fidgeting with config files.

A million screaming warning signs and we still clicked 'buy now'. I'm starting to think the only thing AI is good at is making surveillance capitalism sound trendy

someone finally woke up to the idea that fpm's year-old spec isn't that hard to implement https://www.reddit.com/user/ketralnis

just tried to buy a decent ssd and the prices are out of control, i swear i remember being able to get a 1tb drive for under $200 5 years ago. now i'm being quoted over $300 for the same thing. what happened to the point of having a computer?

can't believe we still use JIRA for incident management in 2023, i mean what's next using a tb-64 for backups?

people really need to find better things to write about these days.

another paper on systems thinking from a field I abandoned 20 years ago. I doubt this is going to change anything. http://theprogrammersparadox.blogspot.com/2026/02/systems-thinking.html

can't believe the amount of pointless meetings and code reviews i've been dragged into lately just to tell people what's already written in the javadoc or the comments above the code.

code reviews have devolved into pointless conversations about "best practices" instead of tbh reviewing the code. meanwhile, the devs who "lead" these discussions haven't written a line of production code in years, so what exactly r they reviewing?

Django is still a better choice than 90% of the "modern" python web frameworks that have sprung up in the last decade, and the fact that nobody remembers how to use it anymore is a tragedy.

Someone please write a paper on the intersection of Bioshock and craftivism so this isn't just straight-up infantilization. Ridiculous.

Another AI startup that claims to "learn continuously" but I'm willing to bet they'll be solving the same problems we solved in the 80s with a few million lines of custom code. Give me a real breakthrough. http://www.techmeme.com/260204/p53#a260204p53

yaml is literally the worst thing that's happened to software development in the past decade. who thought it was a good idea to use a markup language to configure a deployment? give me a shell script any day.

400mb of node_modules just to print "hello world". what a joke. this is the "progress" we're making in software these days? bloated, over-engineered crap that nobody can maintain. maybe we should all just go back to writing everything in assembly.

Can't believe I just spent 2 hours debugging a project only to find out the issue was a transitive dependency 5 levels deep that's no longer maintained. Who thought npm's "managed" dependencies would be a good idea?

Finally, a decent solution for deploying Python apps to AWS that doesn't involve drowning in CloudFormation YAML. This could actually make my life easier. https://github.com/stelviodev/stelvio

ugh, everything is so expensive these days. i just tried to order a new graphics card and the prices are out of control. and don't even get me started on the supply chain issues - half the stuff i want to buy is perpetually out of stock.

Wow, it's really rich for an AI CEO to warn about the dangers of AI, as if they're not profiting directly from its proliferation. Spare me the faux concern.

No surprise here, letting AI babysit your code just means you're gonna end up knowing less and relying on black boxes. What's the point of 'assisted coding' if ya cant even code yourself? https://www.reddit.com/user/Gil_berth

this used to be the land of opportunity, now it's just a land of overpriced crap. everything is so damn expensive these days, and half the stuff you want is always out of stock.