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Does Anyone Want Ram Installed In Them

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Someone took RAM sticks, heat pipes, and what appears to be a power button to craft the most terrifying weapon known to IT: a literal memory upgrade sword. Because when Chrome tabs get out of hand, sometimes you need to take matters into your own hands. The question "Does anyone want RAM installed in them?" hits different when you're holding a blade made of DDR4. It's the ultimate solution for when someone says "just download more RAM" – no, Karen, I'll STAB you with more RAM instead. Props to whoever built this absolute unit of hardware repurposing. Your computer might be dead, but at least it died with honor as a legendary weapon. Plus, that power button on the hilt is *chef's kiss* – because every good stabbing needs a proper boot sequence.

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Programming Debugging Testing

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Oh honey, the AUDACITY of comparing yourself to an "alpha male" when you're literally just version 0.1 of a human being! Someone really said "I'm gonna destroy this man's entire existence" and equated alpha males to alpha releases—you know, those gloriously broken early versions of software that crash if you breathe on them wrong. The sheer DEVASTATION of being told you're not the dominant wolf of the pack, but rather a buggy mess that should've stayed in development for another six months. Imagine flexing your masculinity only to be told you're basically the software equivalent of "it works on my machine" energy. The roast is IMMACULATE, the burn is LEGENDARY, and somewhere an alpha male just blue-screened.

When People Are Describing The Game They're Working On

Gamedev Unity

50 minutes ago 9.0K views 0 shares

When People Are Describing The Game They're Working On

You know that one indie dev friend who won't shut up about their "cozy farming sim with roguelike elements"? Yeah, they've used the word "cozy" approximately 47 times in the last 10 minutes. The gaming industry has collectively decided that "cozy" is the magic word that makes investors throw money at you and players smash that wishlist button. It's gotten to the point where even survival horror games are being pitched as "cozy existential dread simulators." The real kicker? It works. Slap "cozy" on literally anything—fishing, cooking, tax filing, debugging segmentation faults—and suddenly you've got a viable game concept. The word has been so overused it's lost all meaning, but game devs keep reaching for it like it's the only adjective in the English language. Meanwhile, the rest of us are sitting here wondering when "cozy battle royale" is gonna drop.

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Frontend Webdev Javascript Programming Backend

2 hours ago 34.8K views 0 shares

When your code is so optimized that it becomes a UX problem. The Carfax devs built a report generator that could crunch data in under 10ms, but users were convinced it was fake because "nothing that fast can be real." So the frontend team literally added a fake loading bar with random delays to make it feel more legitimate. This is peak software development: spending years optimizing performance, only to artificially slow it down because humans have been conditioned by decades of slow software to distrust anything that actually works well. We've trained users to equate "slow = working hard" and "fast = probably broken." The fact that this fake progress bar is allegedly still in production today is *chef's kiss*. Somewhere in that codebase is a setTimeout() that exists purely for psychological reasons. That's not technical debt—that's emotional support code.

It Was Reddit All Along

AI Programming StackOverflow

3 hours ago 43.3K views 0 shares

So ChatGPT just hit 800 million weekly active users, and everyone's celebrating like it's this revolutionary AI breakthrough. Plot twist: it's basically just an extremely expensive wrapper around Reddit threads from 2015. You ask it how to center a div, and it regurgitates some Stack Overflow answer that got 12k upvotes back when Obama was still president. The "AI revolution" is literally just scraping the collective wisdom of developers who were procrastinating at work years ago and serving it back to you with a fancy conversational interface. We've gone full circle—instead of Googling "python list comprehension" and clicking the first Reddit link, we now ask an LLM that was trained on... that exact Reddit thread. The real innovation here is making people pay $20/month for what used to be free internet browsing. Silicon Valley efficiency at its finest.

Aged Like Milk

Hardware Programming

7 hours ago 93.4K views 0 shares

Ken Olsen, CEO of Digital Equipment Corporation, confidently declared in 1977 that nobody would ever need a computer at home. Fast forward a few decades and we're literally panicking when our phone battery drops below 20%. We've got computers in our pockets, on our wrists, in our fridges, and probably embedded in our toasters at this point. The irony here is chef's kiss level. The guy was literally selling computers while simultaneously predicting they'd never be a household item. It's like a car salesman saying "nobody will ever need personal transportation." Digital Equipment Corporation eventually went bankrupt in 1998, probably around the time people were installing Windows 98 on their home PCs and playing Solitaire instead of working. Fun fact: Today we have more computing power in our smartphones than NASA used to land on the moon. So yeah, Ken... we found a few reasons to have computers at home. Like doomscrolling Twitter at 2 AM and arguing with strangers on Reddit about whether tabs or spaces are superior.

Linux Users Are Cool

Linux Programming

9 hours ago 109.4K views 0 shares

You know that one person who somehow manages to mention their Arch installation at literally every social gathering? Yeah, they showed up to a funeral. The priest is asking for final words and someone just had to announce their OS preference to the grieving family. Brother, read the room. Nobody asked, and frankly, the deceased probably used Windows anyway. The Linux evangelism is strong with this one—so strong that basic social awareness took a backseat to flexing their distro choice. Look, we get it. You compile your own kernel. You haven't seen a GUI in three years. Your .bashrc has more lines than most people's codebases. But maybe, just maybe, save it for the tech meetup instead of Grandma's funeral.

Good Old Days

StackOverflow Programming Debugging Frontend Backend

11 hours ago 138.1K views 0 shares

You copy-paste some random Stack Overflow snippet into your codebase without understanding it, and suddenly your project is on fire while somehow still running. The best part? It works better than what you wrote yourself. Nothing says "senior developer" quite like trusting a 12-year-old forum answer over your own logic. Ship it and pray the next dev never looks at the commit history.

Must Be Some Caching Issue

Testing Gamedev Programming Debugging Frontend

15 hours ago 215.2K views 0 shares

The holy trinity of developer excuses: "It's a caching issue," "It works on my machine," and now apparently "blame the framework." John Carmack dropping this quote is like watching your programming hero admit he's just as broken as the rest of us. The beautiful irony here is that blaming the framework is actually the most senior developer move possible. Junior devs blame themselves, mid-level devs blame their teammates, but veterans? They know the real enemy is React's reconciliation algorithm or whatever abstraction is standing between them and bare metal. Honestly though, Carmack has earned the right to skip tests—dude literally wrote Doom and revolutionized 3D graphics. When you've optimized at that level, unit tests probably feel like using training wheels on a rocket ship.

You Can't Fire Me Because No One Knows How It Works And That's A Good Thing

Programming Devops Backend

20 hours ago 284.0K views 0 shares

You Can't Fire Me Because No One Knows How It Works And That's A Good Thing

Job security through obfuscation - the oldest trick in the book. That lead dev really said "documentation is for people who plan to leave" and then peaced out for half a year. Now you're staring at 2000+ lines of critical infrastructure code with zero comments, variable names like x1 and temp_final_v3_actual , and the only person who understands it is currently sipping margaritas on a beach somewhere with their phone off. The real power move here is making yourself irreplaceable not through excellence, but through creating a knowledge monopoly. It's like holding the entire company hostage with your brain. Can't fire you, can't promote you away from the code, can't even let you take PTO without the whole system potentially imploding. Toxic? Maybe. Effective? Absolutely. Pro tip: This strategy works until the company decides it's cheaper to rewrite everything from scratch than deal with your ransom demands. Then you become the legacy system that gets deprecated.

The Struggle Is Real

Programming

20 hours ago 286.9K views 0 shares

The holy trinity of developer misery, perfectly captured in three identical facepalms. Having a job means dealing with legacy code, pointless meetings, and that one coworker who still uses Internet Explorer. Not having a job means existential dread and your bank account slowly approaching zero. And searching for a job? That's where you get to experience the joy of being ghosted by recruiters, doing unpaid "take-home assignments" that take 20 hours, and being rejected for entry-level positions that require 5 years of experience in a framework that came out 2 years ago. The real kicker? All three states produce the exact same level of suffering. It's like choosing between three different flavors of pain. Welcome to the tech industry, where the grass is always equally dead on every side of the fence.

Discord Right Now

Security Webdev

22 hours ago 297.6K views 0 shares

Discord recently rolled out a new age verification system requiring users to upload government-issued IDs to access certain servers and features. The platform claims it's for "protecting children" and "privacy," but the irony is thick enough to deploy to production. Nothing says "we care about your privacy" quite like asking users to hand over the most sensitive form of identification to a company that's had its share of data breaches and security incidents. The desperation in the repeated "bro please" perfectly captures how Discord is basically begging users to trust them with documents that could enable identity theft if leaked. It's like asking someone to give you the keys to their house so you can protect them from burglars. The cognitive dissonance is real: upload your most private document so we can ensure your privacy. Classic tech company logic right there.

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