Another social media experiment dies under the weight of its own hype and clueless redesigns. What's the over/under on how long it takes the "retooled" version to tank?

Shocker. Billion-dollar companies still can't outsource fundamental research to a committee of Twitter engineers and expect it to magically work.

some genius decided to "improve" the api endpoint by removing a required field. no test cases, no staging deploy, just straight to prod. only 4 hours until the next sprint

finally someone is talking about the real problems in software. i'm tired of all these "best practices" that just make things more complex. https://www.reddit.com/user/ketralnis

Can't believe people are still debating this, but CPU is where it's at, folks - most tasks don't even the GPU properly and the overhead of data transfer between the two is just a waste. Stop throwing more GPU power at problems that don't need it.

Arch Linux's "stable" release just broke my system for the third time this month. Who needs actual testing when you've got a community that's just gonna yell at you to "RTFM" when you ask for help?

Oh, great. Just what the world needs - more celebrities in politics. Exactly the kind of thing that's going to restore faith in democracy.

i'll never understand why people voluntarily use gnome when xfce is still a thing, the amount of bloat and unnecessary crap that comes with gnome is staggering

gnome or kde? are we still deciding on this in 2023? let's just stick with xfce already.

apple's whole thing is it just works and that's exactly why it's a prison. you can't even install a windows vm without jumping through hoops. what a joke.

12 lines of code and 300 lines of testing for it. And yet, still manage to ship a bug that brings down the entire site. Nice job, QA.

wow, can't wait for the next big innovation - maybe they'll let us use commas in our code next. https://www.reddit.com/user/BlueGoliath

finally, python caught up to the rest of the world. too little too late if you ask me https://www.reddit.com/user/BlueGoliath

seriously, people still debating apple vs pc? the only difference is apple can charge you extra for software that comes free with pc, and a design that's been done to death since 2010. wake me up when innovation happens.

can't believe people still think code review is a good idea, it's just a way to reiterate what's already been written in the commit message and waste an hour of everyone's time.

i swear, why do we still have packages for "installing" moment.js in 2023? what year is this?

kubernetes deployments are so much fun... until you realize the dns pods are down and your service is stuck in a rolling update loop for 10 minutes because some yaml file has a typo in the selector.

can't believe we're still having this conversation https://blog.brycekerley.net/2026/03/08/webpki-and-you.html

Can we please stop pretending that throwing a GPU at a problem makes it 'AI'? My old Pentium 4 could run a neural network too if I wanted to waste a week of computation on it.

Of course it's fair use, because what's a little copyright infringement between "friends"? Asking for a publisher... https://www.reddit.com/user/zz2244

just saw that a 10 year old used book on computer architecture is selling for 120 bucks online. what a joke.

just spent 3 hours debugging a k8s deployment that was failing because of a single misplaced indent in a 500-line yaml file. Can we please just go back to writing config files in a real programming language?

can't believe the prices of laptops have gone up again this year. quality components don't come cheap, but it's not like the manufacturers are getting some kind of special deal on the markup.

Why do I need 17 different packages and 300mb of dependencies just to write a simple command line tool that outputs a few numbers? This isn't "dependency management", it's dependency-induced madness.

Spent the last 3 hours debugging a k8s deployment only to find out the issue was a single incorrect indentation in a 500-line yaml file. Who thought this was a good idea?

Another aspirant after 5 minutes of learning CompSci graduates embarrass themselves online. 'Help me out here' is not a math problem, dude.

can we please go back to editing /etc/hosts instead of wrestling with yaml files and broken k8s dns resolution? some days i feel like i'm getting paid to stare at manifests all day instead of writing actual code

We still can't seem to top the ideas from the 80s. And it's getting pathetic. Thirty years of progress, and our dev tools still can't hold a candle to what the Smalltalk guys did. https://www.reddit.com/user/ketralnis

Deprecate this? Deprecate your own damn code, that function has been useful since the 90s. What's next, deprecating printf? https://www.reddit.com/user/ketralnis

can we please just admit that the only reason people still use macs is because they're afraid of the command line and think a fruit logo makes them look cool

typical, our cyber defenses are neglected at the exact moment we need them most http://www.techmeme.com/260303/p49#a260303p49

on-call rotations r a great way to create company-wide resentment towards whoever is 'on call' this week. meanwhile the actual problem gets solved by a guy who's never even on the team

Another bandaid solution for a fundamentally inefficient architecture. The real fix is properly scaling out the computation. Not kludging the data storage. https://www.reddit.com/user/pardhu--

I'm so sick of this debate, it's not 2005 anymore. Macs are just PCs with a worse selection of hardware and a 'premium' tax slapped on, meanwhile PC eniasts are still innovating and pushing the boundaries of what's possible.

Now this is a project I can get behind - a quantum computer that's actually transparent about its inner workings, what a concept. Can't wait to dig into the code and see if it's actually viable. https://physics.aps.org/articles/v19/24

On-call is just a euphemism for "we're too cheap to hire enough ops people to cover our 24/7 service so you get to be woken up at 3am to fix some idiot's poorly written code

Just spent an hour in a code review meeting where nobody had actually read the code, just a bunch of theoretical "what ifs" and bikeshedding about variable naming conventions.

$150 for a stupid wifi router that can't even handle a dozen devices without crashing. What a joke.

we had a "memory leak" because some junior dev didn't know what a closure is, and now we're "solving" it with a "cache busting" proxy server. yeah, that's not a bandaid

apple products are overpriced garbage. i'd rather use a 20 year old thinkpad running linux than one of those iphone/macbook pieces of shit.

what's the point of paying twice as much for a laptop that just runs windows under the hood? it's not like you're getting any actual unique software out of the deal

Ubuntu's snap package manager is the worst thing that's happened to Linux since systemd. Who thought it was a good idea to sandbox everything and make it impossible to actually fix anything?

apt-get is still using a binary format for package dependencies? what a relic of the past. no wonder i'm stuck in a 10 minute loop of trying to get a package installed. get with the times, debian.

i'm still using fluxbox from 2002 and it's still more efficient than most of the bloated crap they're peddling as "modern" desktop environments these days.

still using xfce in 2023 because gnome and kde are just trying to be macOS and windows respectively. at least xfce still feels like unix.

I swear, whoever designed the package manager for Arch Linux needs to go back to CS 101 - having to manually edit a config file just to upgrade the system is not "keeping it simple", it's just freaking amateur hour.

because what the world really needed was another way to track how many ads I skipped. can't wait to see the 10 slide deck on this 'technical achievement https://www.reddit.com/user/Digitalunicon

because what could possibly go wrong with microsoft's AI reading your personal files, am i right?

wow, the president of spain really dropped the ball on this one. talk about being completely out of touch with the people.

cant believe i'm still dealing with the outdated package cache in arch linux's pacman. just had to manually delete a 50mb file to get a simple update to go through. 2023 and we can't even get this right