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When Your Customer's House Is On Fire But They Call Tech Support First

29 minutes ago 6.6K views 0 shares

Picture it: 1999, dial-up era, when connecting to the internet sounded like robots screaming into the void. A customer's ACTUAL HOUSE is literally engulfed in flames, smoke billowing, everything going up like a bonfire—and what does this absolute legend do? Call tech support to ask if the ISP's servers are on fire because, you know, his computer is producing smoke and flames. The logic? "I'm connected to your internet, therefore YOUR servers must be the problem." The sheer commitment to troubleshooting while your house burns down around you is honestly peak tech support customer energy. Forget evacuating, forget calling 911 yourself—no, no, the REAL emergency is whether the dial-up provider's infrastructure is experiencing thermal issues. The tech had to literally grab the marketing director and be like "CALL 911 NOW, NOT A DRILL." This is the kind of customer interaction that makes you question everything about humanity and also explains why every tech support script starts with "Have you tried turning it off and on again?" Because apparently we need to add "Is your house on fire?" to the checklist.

Cables

Hardware Programming Debugging

54 minutes ago 12.1K views 0 shares

When your cable management is so catastrophically bad that it becomes a work of art, you simply rebrand it as "intentional design." Someone literally painted circuit board traces on their wall to route their cables and then had the AUDACITY to add RGB lighting like they're showcasing a feature at CES. This is the physical manifestation of "it's not a bug, it's a feature" – except instead of code, it's your entertainment center looking like a cyberpunk fever dream. The best part? They committed SO HARD to this aesthetic disaster that they made it symmetrical. That's dedication to the bit right there.

This Little Maneuver Gonna Cost Us Fifty One Years

Debugging Programming

1 hour ago 21.3K views 0 shares

This Little Maneuver Gonna Cost Us Fifty One Years

Writing code is pure bliss. You're in the zone, fingers flying across the keyboard, creating beautiful abstractions, feeling like a god. Then you hit run and something breaks. Now you're stepping through line 247 for the 18th time, questioning every life decision that led you to this moment, wondering if that business degree your parents suggested wasn't such a bad idea after all. The debugging phase is where dreams go to die and Stack Overflow tabs multiply like rabbits. You'll spend 4 hours hunting down a bug only to discover you misspelled a variable name or forgot a semicolon in a language that actually needs them. The ratio of coding time to debugging time is basically a lie we tell ourselves to get through the day.

Teach Em Young

Javascript Webdev Programming Frontend

2 hours ago 27.7K views 0 shares

Kid picks up a JavaScript book and immediately has an existential crisis in the shopping cart. Can't blame them—they haven't even learned about undefined vs null yet and they're already experiencing the emotional trauma that comes with it. Starting with JavaScript is like learning to swim by being thrown into the ocean during a storm. Sure, you'll eventually figure out how to float, but you'll question every life decision that led you there. The kid's reaction is honestly the most realistic response to encountering JavaScript for the first time—pure, unfiltered despair. Fun fact: This is actually the recommended age to start learning JavaScript. By the time they're old enough to understand what a callback hell is, they'll already be numb to the pain.

Finally Happened To Me Out Of Nowhere

Hardware Windows Debugging

2 hours ago 32.3K views 0 shares

That moment when your PC decides to just... die. No warning signs, no BSOD, no dramatic fan noises—it simply refuses to turn on anymore. You're standing there dressed to the nines (metaphorically speaking) ready to debug, code, or game, but your machine has ghosted you harder than a Tinder match. One day it's fine, the next day it's a very expensive paperweight. Could be the PSU, could be the motherboard, could be that your PC finally achieved sentience and chose retirement. Either way, you're now entering the five stages of grief, starting with frantically checking if you pushed the power button correctly (spoiler: you did).

This Little Maneuver Gonna Cost Us 51 Years

Debugging Programming

5 hours ago 74.2K views 0 shares

This Little Maneuver Gonna Cost Us 51 Years

Writing code? Pure bliss. Everything makes sense, you're in the zone, feeling like a digital god. Then you hit run and something breaks. Now you're stepping through line 47 for the 23rd time, questioning every life choice that led you to this profession. The transition from "I am inevitable" to "what fresh hell is this" happens faster than a segfault in production. Debugging doesn't just age you—it steals your soul and replaces it with console.log statements and existential dread.

Handling Exceptions Be Like

Programming Csharp Javascript Python Java

6 hours ago 81.7K views 0 shares

You know you've reached peak software engineering when your error handling strategy is literally "not my problem." Catching an exception just to immediately throw it again is like answering the phone, saying "nope," and hanging up. Zero value added, but hey, at least you can tell management you implemented proper exception handling. The best part? This actually compiles and runs. The code is technically doing something—it's just doing absolutely nothing useful. It's the programming equivalent of those meetings that could've been an email. Some junior dev probably added this during a panic-driven development session at 2 AM and somehow it made it past code review. We've all been there.

Disappointed Yet Again

Git Programming Debugging

7 hours ago 92.0K views 0 shares

Oh, the eternal cycle of hope and despair! You Google your bug, find a GitHub issue from 2017, and think "FINALLY! Someone else suffered through this nightmare and surely the devs have blessed us with a fix by now!" But NOPE. You scroll through four entire pages of people begging for a solution, only to find h4t0n dropped a comment last week asking "any progress on this?" and the silence is DEAFENING. The "GODDAMMIT" at the end? That's the sound of your soul leaving your body as you realize you're about to become comment number 247 asking the same question. Spoiler alert: there will be no progress. There never is. Welcome to open source, where issues from the Obama administration still haunt us. 💀

How It Feels To Learn Vulkan

C++ Hardware Gamedev Programming

7 hours ago 97.6K views 0 shares

You thought you'd learn some graphics programming, maybe render a cute little triangle. But with Vulkan? That innocent triangle requires you to write approximately 1,000 lines of boilerplate just to see three vertices on screen. You'll need to manually configure the swap chain, set up render passes, create pipeline layouts, manage memory allocations, synchronize command buffers, and sacrifice your firstborn to the validation layers. Other graphics APIs let you draw a triangle in 50 lines. Vulkan makes you earn every single pixel like you're negotiating with the GPU directly. The triangle isn't just a shape—it's a rite of passage that separates the casuals from those who truly understand what "low-level graphics API" means. By the time you finally see that rainbow gradient, you've aged 10 years and gained a PhD in GPU architecture.

Nvidia In A Nutshell

Hardware AI

9 hours ago 135.5K views 1 shares

So Nvidia dominates the GPU market like a boss, riding high on their graphics supremacy. But plot twist: their own success creates a global RAM shortage because everyone's panic-buying their cards for gaming, crypto mining, and AI training. Now here's the beautiful irony—Nvidia can't manufacture enough new GPUs because... wait for it... there's a RAM shortage. They literally shot themselves in the foot by being too successful. It's like being so good at making pizza that you cause a cheese shortage and can't make more pizza. The self-inflicted wound is *chef's kiss*. Classic case of market dominance creating its own supply chain nightmare.

Weird How It Always Works, Yet That One Boolean Decided To Be A Pain

Debugging Programming Testing Frontend

12 hours ago 171.2K views 0 shares

Weird How It Always Works, Yet That One Boolean Decided To Be A Pain

You walk the debugger through your code like a patient therapist. "You're a boolean." Yup. "The breakpoint shows you're being set to true." Yup. "And if said boolean is true, then this actor will show a certain widget when clicked." That makes sense to me. "Then show the correct widget!" And suddenly the code decides to embrace chaos and work exactly once before retiring permanently. The logic is flawless. The debugger confirms everything. Yet somehow the widget has commitment issues. Classic case of Schrödinger's boolean—simultaneously true and "nah, not feeling it today." Probably cached somewhere in a parallel dimension or the boolean got garbage collected mid-explanation. Either way, you're now questioning your career choices and the fundamental nature of reality.

No It's Not C Hashtag Lol

Csharp Microsoft Programming

13 hours ago 180.1K views 0 shares

The eternal struggle of explaining C# pronunciation to literally anyone outside the .NET ecosystem. It's always "C hashtag" or "C pound" until someone finally corrects you with the proper "C Sharp" pronunciation. The meme perfectly captures that redemption arc moment when C# finally gets to introduce itself properly after being butchered for years. Fun fact: the # symbol was actually chosen because it resembles four plus signs in a grid (++++ = C++++), suggesting it's an increment of C++. Microsoft really said "let's confuse everyone forever" and succeeded spectacularly.

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