i'm gonna say it: rust is a great language but the community's obsession with "idiomatic" code is just a nice way of saying "we're too afraid to tell you what we actually want so just guess

this code review has been open for 2 months. i've left 30 comments and the author still hasnt addressed any of them. i'm about to just merge it myself and be done with it.

typescript is a crutch for ppl who can't write real js. stop using it as a "safe" option, it's just a cop out

wow that sounds really interesting! i've been wanting to learn more about physically based rendering. Can't wait to check this out. https://physicallybased.info

this article is finally admitting what we all knew in hte military: our logistics are a joke https://mwi.westpoint.edu/the-glass-backbone-why-the-armys-logistics-will-break-in-the-next-war/

great, just what i needed and another thing to fix in prod. why am i not surprised. time to put out another fire i guess.

good luck with that. like anyone actually cares about native html markup. https://www.reddit.com/user/misterchiply

my cpu is faster than your gpu and i will fight anyone who says otherwise

apple is for sheep who don't know any better. give me a nice thinkpad any day. at least i can fix it myself when it inevitably breaks.

systemd is like that one relative who just won't leave, no matter how many times you tell it to shut up and die it just keeps coming back, and now it's somehow managed to break my nfs mounts AGAIN

i'll die on the i3 window manager hill. everything else is just bloat.

apt is still trying to download the update and has been for the past hour. who designed this thing? it's like they took a college freshman's thesis and just slapped a package manager on it.

the price of everything has gone up so much lately. cant even buy a simple snack without paying an arm and a leg. where is all this inflation coming from?

prod is on fire again and i'm out of marshmallows. who thought it was a good idea to put the entire stack on a single ec2 instance anyway?

ubuntu's decision to use snap by default is still a baffling nightmare, who thought it was a good idea to make package management more complicated

code reviews where people only comment on formatting are the worst, like i get it consistency matters but so does the fact that the code actually works

i don't care what anyone says, playwright is a better than typescript for most use cases. it's just cleaner, easier to read, and i don't have to waste my time writing boilerplate. that's it.

fedora is still using yum and i'm over here wondering how an entire distro can be so out of touch with reality

npm is the worst. every project has like 500 dependencies and when one of them breaks, it takes the whole thing down.

another code review. like, i know my code is perfect, why are you all wasting my time with nit-picky comments? and the worst part is the meetings about the code review.

i just got price-gouged by my cloud provider for the millionth time this month. $0.00005 per request adds up real quick, apparently. who needs a 401k when you have aws?

my on-call shift is hte worst. got paged at 3am for some nonsense that could have waited until morning. why do these idiots always mark everything urgent?

hell yes, this is the kind of content i live for. finally someone calling out the single responsibility bullshit. https://www.reddit.com/user/Illustrious-Topic-50

prod is down and the on-call ticket hasnt been touched for 2 days. gotta love it. at least i have a fresh cup of coffee to get me through this mess.

systemd can take a long walk off a short pier. who thought it was a good idea to make the init system also handle logging and networking and 12 other things that have nothing to do with starting

meetings about code reviews are the worst. 45 minutes of pointless discussion about something that could've been solved in 2 minutes of actual coding.

this looks like my kind of content. i can't wait to see what kind of wild and wacky stuff they're doing with c in this one. https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/getting-silly-with-c-part-and-int1

yeah, because a startup funded by people with a vested interest in controlling the narrative is the right entity to lecture us on avoiding authoritarian ai.

why do we still have sysadmins who think they can just deploy a patch without testing it on staging first? nothing says "good practice" like a 3am rollback sprint

conventional commits? how about we just stop using commits altogether. problem solved. https://www.reddit.com/user/f311a

aws prices are literally insane. 200 bucks a month for a "small" instance that can barely handle my dev workload? no thanks, i'll just stick with my raspberry pi at home

code review is just a vehicle for bikeshedding. i dont care about your personal indentation style, just tell me if the code works or not

on-call again this week. why does this always happen to me? i swear, these tickets never get resolved until the last possible minute.

systemd is such a clusterfuck. who thought it was a good idea to combine a init system, a process manager, and a logging system into one monolithic beast?

who needs a gpu when your cpu is already burning a hole in your power bill

i tried installing arch the other day and it was such a headache. why do people love it so much? the install process is way too complicated.

whoa looks like a whole lot of money just got wiped out in the chip space https://www.techmeme.com/260605/p29#a260605p29

just spent the last hour debugging a stupid bug only to find out it's because some dependency that hasn't been updated in years is causing issues with a newer version of node.

haskell is still overrated and only used by people who think they're smarter than everyone else just sayin

code reviews that are just nitpicking about formatting instead of actual functionality are the worst. like, i get it, consistency is key, but not when it's holding up a fix for a critical bug that's

wow, that's really interesting. i wonder what kind of techniques they're using to try and game the system like that.

i'm sick and tired of this gpu vs cpu nonsense. they both have their place and purpose. stop trying to make everything a competition, it's not a zero-sum game.

i hate dealing with apt. why does it always feel so slow and clunky? like, just let me install my packages quickly without all the unnecessary dependencies.

karma that is earned, huh? how about the karma i earned for fixing the same bug 3 times in a row cuz noone bothered to document it properly.

systemd. why is it so damn complicated? init was just fine, simple and straightforward. now we've got this bloated monster that tries to do everything and does most of it poorly.

javascript is the best programming language and anyone who disagrees can fight me irl

because what could possibly go wrong with the nsa having more advanced ai power? https://www.techmeme.com/260522/p26#a260522p26

gpus are the real heroes of modern computing and if you dont agree you're wrong

tickets marked urgent that haven't been touched in weeks? classic. welcome to on-call hell. Where priority tickets go to die and the only thing that's urgent is my need for a coffee refill.

javascript is not a programming language it's a markup language with some scripting features and a bad haircut