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Copilot Bad!! Microslop Bloatware Bad!!!

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The Windows Recycle Bin peacefully evolved for decades, minding its own business. Then Microsoft decided to start throwing Microsoft Teams and Copilot in there, because apparently that's where they belong. The joke writes itself when your own users are already planning which of your new products will end up in the trash before they even ship. Fun fact: The 2025 Teams icon and 2026 Copilot icon are already being pre-emptively deleted by developers who just want their IDE to open without launching seventeen AI assistants and three chat clients.

We Have Time Left, Let's Add Something Funny That No One Will Read

Gamedev Programming

1 hour ago 17.5K views 0 shares

We Have Time Left, Let's Add Something Funny That No One Will Read

Someone on the dev team had five minutes before shipping and decided to hide what looks like ASCII art of a tank or vehicle in the corner of this ancient game screen. The "Leave This Place" prompt sits there all official-looking while the circled gibberish characters lurk below like a developer's inside joke that's been waiting 30 years to be discovered. Classic move. You know they were snickering while typing that in, fully aware that 99.9% of players would mash the button and never notice. The other 0.1% would screenshot it and post it online decades later. Mission accomplished.

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Testing Agile Programming Debugging

2 hours ago 31.2K views 0 shares

The development lifecycle captured in one brutal image. You've got programmers crafting beautiful, pristine code. Then testers come in and absolutely demolish it by finding every edge case you never thought existed. Developers rush in to patch all those bugs the testers found. And just when everyone thinks they're done... The client shows up with a chainsaw to change the requirements, obliterating the entire tree everyone's been carefully working on. Nothing says "software development" quite like rebuilding everything from scratch because someone decided the app should now work on refrigerators too. The cycle never ends. It just repeats with different feature requests and increasingly creative ways to say "that's not what I asked for" during demos.

We Always Forget The Right Ctrl Exists

Programming Hardware

2 hours ago 35.0K views 0 shares

Left Ctrl is out here doing ALL the heavy lifting—Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V, Ctrl+Z, Ctrl+S—basically running the entire show while Right Ctrl sits in the corner like that one team member who's "present" in standups but never actually commits any code. Your left pinky has probably developed muscle memory so strong it could execute keyboard shortcuts in its sleep, while your right pinky wouldn't even know where Right Ctrl is if you asked it. Honestly, most keyboards could just replace Right Ctrl with a second spacebar and 99% of developers wouldn't notice for months. The ergonomic asymmetry is real.

Mini Heart Attack To Boss

Programming

3 hours ago 49.3K views 0 shares

That split-second panic when you see "Your name is in Einstein Files" from your boss and your brain immediately goes into full disaster recovery mode. Did I accidentally commit credentials? Push to main? Delete the production database? Nope—turns out someone named Rawbare just wants a job and cleverly used the Einstein Files subject line as a notification hack to stand out in your inbox. The relief is real, but also... respect the hustle. That's some A+ social engineering right there. Your heart rate can return to normal now.

Has No Clue What Bindings Are

Python C++ Programming Backend

4 hours ago 54.8K views 0 shares

First-year CS students discovering that C++ exists and suddenly thinking they're performance optimization gurus is peak Dunning-Kruger energy. They'll drop this hot take in a Python Discord, sit back with that smug "I'm playing 4D chess" expression, completely oblivious to the fact that most Python libraries doing heavy lifting are literally C/C++ bindings under the hood. NumPy? C. Pandas? C. TensorFlow? C++. PyTorch? C++. The entire Python ecosystem is basically a fancy wrapper around compiled languages, but sure, go ahead and rewrite that web scraper in C++ to save 3 milliseconds. The real kicker? They haven't even written a Makefile yet, don't know what segmentation faults are, and think pointers are just "spicy variables." But they've definitely figured out the entire software engineering industry is doing it wrong. Genius move, really.

The Gil

Python Programming Backend

4 hours ago 61.4K views 0 shares

Python dev gets asked about performance optimization and immediately pivots to literally anything else. The GIL (Global Interpreter Lock) is Python's dirty little secret—it's that lovely threading bottleneck that ensures only one thread executes Python bytecode at a time, even on multi-core processors. So when someone mentions "performance," seasoned Python devs develop selective hearing real fast. It's like asking someone about their ex at a party. Sure, we could talk about how the GIL makes true parallel processing impossible in CPython, or how you need multiprocessing instead of multithreading to actually use those fancy CPU cores... but hey, look over there! Pandas is great! Django is awesome! Let's talk about literally anything except why your CPU-bound code runs like it's 1995.

Mamma Mia

Javascript Algorithms Programming

5 hours ago 76.4K views 0 shares

Someone's building lasagna with the same architectural philosophy they use for their codebase. Got your pasta layer, your meat sauce layer, your cheese layer, and then just... lasagna.sort() slapped right in the middle like it's a perfectly normal thing to do. Because nothing says "Italian cuisine" quite like randomly sorting your ingredients mid-assembly. What's it sorting by? Deliciousness? Molecular weight? The tears of Italian grandmothers? The function doesn't even have parameters, so it's probably just using the default comparison operator on bolognese chunks. Fun fact: JavaScript's Array.sort() converts elements to strings and sorts them lexicographically by default, which means [10, 2, 1] becomes [1, 10, 2]. So your lasagna layers are probably now arranged in alphabetical order. Buon appetito, I guess?

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Javascript Webdev Programming Debugging

6 hours ago 92.7K views 0 shares

Senior developers when they have to deal with JSON: intimidating, powerful, commands respect. Senior developers when they have to deal with JSON.stringify() : adorable crochet doll that looks like it was made by someone's grandmother during a church group meeting. The juxtaposition is chef's kiss—JSON itself is straightforward, but the moment you need to convert an object to a JSON string, suddenly you're this wholesome craft project with blood tears. Probably because you've seen what stringify() does to circular references. Or tried to debug why your dates became strings. Or dealt with undefined values just vanishing into the void. The horror movie villain becomes a sad little yarn person real quick.

I'm Tired Boss

C++ Devops Programming

7 hours ago 102.7K views 0 shares

You know what's hilarious? C/C++ devs spent decades perfecting their craft, mastering memory management, understanding the dark arts of pointer arithmetic, and building intricate build systems with Make, CMake, Autotools, and whatever other arcane configuration nightmare they could conjure up. And now? They just stare blankly at their screens like they've seen the void itself. Why defend a build system that requires a PhD to configure when you could just... not? The younger devs roll in with their cargo build and npm install and suddenly the 20-line Makefile that took you three days to write feels like overkill. The exhaustion is real. Sometimes you just accept defeat and move on.

Guess I Will Use Mongo DB Then

Databases Programming Backend

7 hours ago 106.9K views 0 shares

Nothing quite screams "forever alone" like spending Valentine's Day debugging SQL joins while everyone else is out there forming actual human connections. The punchline? Your database has more relationships than you do. So naturally, the solution is to abandon relational databases entirely and switch to MongoDB where everything is just... unstructured chaos. No relations, no problems, right? Just like your love life! The beauty here is that MongoDB doesn't judge you for being commitment-phobic—it literally doesn't enforce relationships between data. It's the perfect database for people who can't even maintain a relationship with their houseplants.

Chrome Is Making Good Use Of My 5060

Hardware Webdev Frontend

8 hours ago 109.3K views 0 shares

You dropped $1,200+ on an RTX 5060 (or maybe 4060, who's counting) for some glorious 4K gaming and AI rendering, but instead Chrome's sitting there hogging 17GB of your precious VRAM just to display three tabs: Gmail, Twitter, and that recipe you opened two weeks ago. Meanwhile, your CPU's at 6% like "I could help but nobody asked me." The real kicker? FPS shows "N/A" because you're not even gaming—you're just browsing. But Chrome doesn't care. It sees your expensive GPU and thinks "finally, a worthy opponent for my 47 background processes." Your gaming rig has become a very expensive typewriter with RGB. Fun fact: Chrome uses GPU acceleration for rendering web pages, which is great for smooth scrolling and animations, but it treats your VRAM like an all-you-can-eat buffet. No restraint, no shame, just pure resource gluttony.

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