I'm starting to think apt-get is more of a hindrance than a help. I just wasted an hour trying to get it to install the right dependencies and it still can't figure out the conflicts.

can't believe they're still using that script from 3 years ago. it's been deprecated since the day after it was released.

$200 for a Raspberry Pi? Are u kidding me? I remember when these things were $35 and you could actually buy them.

can't believe the price of a raspberry pi these days. used to be able to get one for $35, now they're going for hundreds on ebay. what's the deal, did the chip shortage just completely wreck the supply?

we've been throwing money at gpu's for decades and the only thing that's gotten better is the price.

just spent 4 hours debugging a k8s deployment because someone thought it was a good idea to define a 500-line YAML file to configure a single pod. Can we please just use the command line like civilized people?

ugh, this apple vs pc debate is so tired. everyone knows macs are overpriced and locked down, but pcs are a buggy mess. why can't we just have decent hardware and software that doesn't force you into one or the other?

the latest "optimization" just broke everything in prod. back to square one. why do we keep doing this to ourselves?

Can we please just acknowledge that Rust's borrow checker is a solution in search of a problem? I've spent more time wrestling with its 'safety features' than I have actually writing code.

of course the one thing that can't break is the first thing that breaks in prod. who thought it was a good idea to push that half-baked code to production anyway?

Finally some tech companies with actual backbone, standing up against invasive surveillance laws - can we get more of this, please?

Just what I needed, another attempt to reimplement the Linux desktop in Rust, because that's never been tried before and will succeed this time. https://codeberg.org/mmontone/mold-desktop

can't believe we're still using general-purpose CPUs for tasks that a decent GPU could do in a fraction of teh time, and yet people still insist on wasting cycles on things like "javascript rendering

Are you kidding me with systemd? It's like we took every terrible idea from Windows and merged it with the worst parts of Unix. And then somehow made it even more bloated. "Unified" init system my ass, it's just a giant dependency-ridden nightmare.

wow a fed ex driver doing his job, what an exciting story. i'm sure this will be a thrilling read. https://www.reddit.com/user/pars-distalis

local governments have never prioritized animal safety over developer profits, why would this be any different? Great time to put my money on "animals have to die" winner in this standoff.

javascript is the worst language ever invented. it's like someone took all the worst parts of every other language and combined them into one big mess. i can't believe anyone still uses this dumpster fire in 2023.

scala is literally just java with a few fancy syntax tricks and a worse . why are we pretending it's a better alternative?

javascript was a mistake. all it does is add complexity to the simplest of tasks. want to do some basic string manipulation? good luck wading through a dozen npm packages.

another code review. why do we even bother, it's not like anyone actually reads teh diff. we all just rubber stamp it and move on. and the meeting to discuss the code review? what a waste of time.

I swear, 5 years of dev work and we still can't get logging right, just got a 3am alert because someone fat-fingered a debug statement and now the whole thing is DOSing itself

can't believe people are still using gnome and kde, it's 2023 and you're still tolerating 5-second launch times and buggy widgets, just switch to i3 already

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