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Does Anyone Here Actually Want AI Baked Into The OS

1 day ago 154.5K views 2 shares

Microsoft announces they're adding AI to Windows. The crowd goes absolutely feral trying to escape. It's like watching rats flee a sinking ship, except the ship is your operating system and the water is Copilot suggestions you never asked for. Nobody wanted Clippy. Nobody wanted Cortana. And yet here we are again, with Microsoft insisting that what your OS really needs is an AI assistant that'll probably hallucinate your file paths and suggest you rewrite your PowerShell scripts in a "more creative way." Can't wait for my kernel to start giving me motivational quotes during BSOD. The best part? They'll make it impossible to uninstall, just like Edge.

Yeah Fuck Cloud Shit

Cloud Devops Kubernetes AWS Backend

9 hours ago 159.4K views 1 shares

Imagine a room full of suits laughing at someone who just said they prefer running everything on their personal computer instead of migrating to the cloud. That's the energy here. Everyone's pushing cloud-native this, serverless that, Kubernetes everywhere—meanwhile you're sitting there with your trusty localhost thinking "but it works fine on my machine." The industry moved on. Your infrastructure didn't. Now you're the punchline at the enterprise architecture meeting while they discuss their multi-region failover strategies and you're just trying to remember if you backed up your hard drive last month. To be fair, your electricity bill is probably lower and you don't have to explain to finance why AWS charged $47,000 for a misconfigured S3 bucket. Small victories.

All Money Probably Went Into Nvidia GPUs

Databases AI Programming Backend Cloud

1 day ago 181.4K views 0 shares

All Money Probably Went Into Nvidia GPUs

Running Postgres at scale for 800 million users while conveniently forgetting to contribute back to the open-source project that's literally holding your entire infrastructure together? Classic move. PostgreSQL is one of those legendary open-source databases that powers half the internet—from Instagram to Spotify—yet somehow companies rake in billions while the maintainers survive on coffee and GitHub stars. The goose's awkward retreat is basically every tech company when you ask about their open-source contributions. They'll spend $50 million on GPU clusters for their "revolutionary AI chatbot" but can't spare $10k for the database that's been rock-solid since before some of their engineers were born. The PostgreSQL team literally enables trillion-dollar valuations and gets... what, a shoutout in the docs? Fun fact: PostgreSQL doesn't even have a corporate sponsor like MySQL (Oracle) or MongoDB. It's maintained by a volunteer community and the PostgreSQL Global Development Group. So yeah, maybe toss them a few bucks between your next GPU shipment.

Choose Your Drug

Programming AI Security Debugging Testing

1 day ago 179.2K views 0 shares

Pick your poison: the light dose of "Trust Me Bro" with 300 API tokens, or go full nuclear with Codex FORTE's 600 tokens of "It Works On My Computer" energy. Both come with the same delightful side effects—technical debt that'll haunt your dreams, security holes big enough to drive a truck through, code so unmaintainable your future self will curse your name, and the cherry on top: unemployment. The pharmaceutical parody nails that feeling when you're shipping code on blind faith versus slightly more blind faith with double the confidence. Either way, you're playing Russian roulette with production, but hey, at least the FORTE version has twice the tokens to generate twice the problems. The best part? Neither option includes "actually tested and documented" as an ingredient.

Cat Rating Env

Security AI Devops Vim Programming

1 day ago 176.9K views 0 shares

When your cat becomes the lead security auditor for your .env file. Nothing says "production-ready" quite like having your database credentials, API keys, and OpenAI tokens scrutinized by a creature that knocks things off tables for fun. The cat's judging every line: "POSTGRES_PASSWORD=postgres? Really? You're basically begging to get hacked. Also, why are you storing OpenAI keys for file generation, translation, AND hint generation? Pick a lane, human." Meanwhile, there's a tiny crochet developer buddy on the desk providing moral support, because apparently even inanimate objects have better code review skills than most junior devs. The real question is: did the cat approve this environment configuration, or is it about to paw-close vim without saving?

Dreaming Of A Stable Dev Career

AI Programming

1 day ago 176.0K views 0 shares

Oh honey, you thought you'd have a nice, peaceful career writing code and sipping artisanal coffee? THINK AGAIN. Here we have the modern software developer's fever dream: desperately trying to build a stable, long-lasting career while getting absolutely PUMMELED by the holy trinity of career destruction. First up, AI hype is out here threatening to replace you with a chatbot that can't even count the letter 'r' in "strawberry." Then layoffs are casually stabbing you in the back because some CEO decided they need a fourth yacht. And finally, economic uncertainty is just vibing in the corner, making sure you never feel too comfortable. It's like trying to build a sandcastle during a hurricane while someone yells "JUST LEARN RUST" at you. The tech industry really said "job security" and laughed in venture capital.

Fundamentals Of Machine Learning

AI Algorithms Math Programming

9 hours ago 150.2K views 1 shares

When you claim "Machine Learning" as your biggest strength but can't do basic arithmetic, you've basically mastered the entire field. The developer here has truly understood the core principle of ML: you don't need to know the answer, you just need to confidently adjust your prediction based on training data. Got it wrong? No problem, just update your weights and insist it's 15. Every answer is 15 now because that's what the loss function minimized to. Bonus points for the interviewer accidentally becoming the training dataset. This is gradient descent in action, folks—start with a random guess (0), get corrected (it's 15), and now every prediction converges to 15. Overfitting at its finest.

Hear Me Out… Forza Horizon

Gamedev Unity Frontend

1 day ago 172.8K views 0 shares

You boot up Forza Horizon and marvel at those gorgeous photorealistic mountains and scenic roads. Stunning visuals, ray tracing, chef's kiss. Then you open the map and it's like someone dumped a bucket of UI elements into a blender and hit "puree." Every single collectible, race, challenge, and side quest is screaming for your attention with icons plastered everywhere. It's the classic game dev paradox: spend millions on a beautiful open world, then completely obscure it with enough UI clutter to make a Windows desktop from 2003 jealous. The rendering engine is crying in 4K while the UX designer is having a field day with marker spam. At least you know where everything is... if you can find it under the 47 overlapping icons.

I Love Monoliths Also This Is Not Satire

Backend Programming Debugging Testing

1 day ago 171.4K views 0 shares

I Love Monoliths Also This Is Not Satire

Someone just casually dropped the most UNHINGED take in software architecture history and got 21 people to agree with them. "Keep everything in a single file for highest quality code" is the kind of chaotic energy that makes senior engineers weep into their keyboards at 3 AM. The absolute AUDACITY to claim that shoving your entire codebase into one massive file is peak engineering because "you know everything is in one place" – yeah, just like how a hoarder knows everything is in one house! Sure, you know where it is... somewhere in those 50,000 lines of spaghetti code between the authentication logic and that random TODO comment from 2019. This is the architectural equivalent of putting all your groceries in one giant bag and calling it "organized" because at least you only have to carry one thing. Separation of concerns? Modularity? Never heard of her! We're going full medieval monolith style – one giant stone block of code that future developers will need archaeological tools to decipher.

If You Will Test Your Program In One Non EFIGS Locale Let It Be Turkish No Joke

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1 day ago 169.6K views 0 shares

If You Will Test Your Program In One Non EFIGS Locale Let It Be Turkish No Joke

Turkish locale is the ULTIMATE nightmare fuel for your code and will expose every single case-sensitivity bug you've been ignoring. Why? Because Turkish has this absolutely DELIGHTFUL quirk where lowercase 'i' doesn't uppercase to 'I' - it becomes 'İ' (with a dot), and uppercase 'I' lowercases to 'ı' (without a dot). So when your code does case-insensitive string comparisons or conversions, it spectacularly combusts in ways that would make a dumpster fire jealous. Your innocent toUpperCase() calls? Broken. Your string matching? Destroyed. Your assumptions about the alphabet? Shattered into a million pieces. It's like Turkish locale has a UV light that makes all your hidden bugs glow in the dark, just like those sketchy hotel rooms. Chef's kiss for QA torture.

You Would Think PCMR Would Actually Try To Do Something About It

Microsoft Hardware Windows Linux

1 day ago 169.1K views 0 shares

You Would Think PCMR Would Actually Try To Do Something About It

The most beautiful display of cognitive dissonance you'll ever witness. Everyone's SO enthusiastic about roasting Microsoft's legendary Windows updates that brick your system, the Blue Screen of Death family reunions, and Cortana's existential crisis. But the SECOND someone suggests actually switching to Linux or literally anything else? Crickets. Absolute radio silence. Tumbleweeds rolling through the auditorium. It's like complaining your ex is toxic while renewing your relationship subscription every month. The PC Master Race will write 47-page essays about how much they despise Microsoft's telemetry and forced updates, but when push comes to shove, nobody's ready to give up their precious game compatibility and Adobe suite. Stockholm syndrome has never looked so RGB-lit.

Interesting Problems Bring Management Headaches

Debugging Agile Programming

1 day ago 170.1K views 0 shares

Interesting Problems Bring Management Headaches

The moment you utter the word "interesting" about a bug or technical challenge, your manager's fight-or-flight response kicks in. To you, it means you found something intellectually stimulating that might require some creative problem-solving. To them, it translates to: delayed timelines, scope creep, potential system meltdowns, and having to explain to stakeholders why the "simple feature" is now a three-week research project. Developers live for these moments—the weird edge cases, the bizarre race conditions, the "wait, that shouldn't even be possible" scenarios. Management lives in fear of them. It's the eternal conflict between curiosity and deadlines, between engineering elegance and shipping code that just works™.

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