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Content rAskReddit Posted by uworldtraveler100 10h What technology are you shocked has not advanced yet? 26.8k J 14.6k Share Award BEST COMMENTS RegulatoryCapture 4h A 1 Award The legal code. Computer programmers have come up with beautiful collab- orative change tracking systems (like git) that let you easily make changes to a huge base of code, track who changed what, submit and resolve conflicting versions of updates, etc. But when we pass a new bill that replaces or modifies an old law, it is always some 300 page document with pages of "Subsection F Paragraph 3 will be modified to read 'XYZ' Why not put the laws into a git repository and make it easy for bills to just modify the existing history to say what you want it to say? And why not have the transparency to see exactly what changes and WHO implemented that change? Want to slip some pork for your district into an unrelated bill? Well, that edit is going to have your name on it. Of course it will never happen. Reply 4 928 J imtn 1h Who the heck wrote this ridiculous bill? git blame Ah. I did. 217

That magical moment when you stop torturing your poor laptop CPU and finally spin up a proper GPU instance. Your machine learning model that was crawling along like it's stuck in molasses suddenly transforms into a speed demon. The performance jump is so absurd you're left wondering why anyone would even bother with CPU training anymore. And yet here we are, still running local experiments on our MacBooks like peasants because cloud costs are... well, let's just say they're "motivating" us to optimize our code first. The real kicker? You could've saved yourself 3 days of waiting if you'd just bitten the bullet and paid for that GPU time from the start.

Ah, the classic "entry-level" job posting that requires mastery of the entire tech stack universe! The recruiter is essentially asking for a frontend dev (JavaScript/React/Redux), backend engineer (Node/Mongo), and DevOps specialist (Docker/Kubernetes/AWS) all rolled into one human being—at the price of one salary, of course. It's like walking into a restaurant and ordering a 5-star chef, server, and dishwasher combo meal for the price of a single hamburger. The tech industry's expectations have gotten so absurd that we're practically one job posting away from "must have invented time travel and colonized Mars by age 25."