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Low Level Temptation
Hardware C++ Programming Debugging
16 hours ago 48.5K views 0 shares
Low Level Temptation
When you've been writing high-level code for months and suddenly Assembly language walks by with all those sexy direct hardware instructions. Meanwhile, C just stands there watching you betray your programming principles for a chance to manipulate memory addresses directly. Sure, you'll regret it when you're debugging segmentation faults at 2AM, but for now... that bare metal performance is just too tempting.

Assembly In A Nutshell
Programming Hardware C++
2 months ago 126.9K views 1 shares
Assembly In A Nutshell
The brutal reality of Assembly language summed up in one perfect Carl Sagan reference! When high-level languages let you just import a library and call makePie() , Assembly forces you to manually manage every electron in the universe. Want to print "Hello World"? First define the cosmos, build a CPU from quarks, and then spend 47 lines moving individual bytes into registers. It's like building a skyscraper with tweezers when everyone else is using cranes. No wonder Assembly programmers have that thousand-yard stare—they've seen the void between the bits.

Hetzner FTW: Crying All The Way To The Bank
Cloud Devops AWS Linux
3 months ago 127.5K views 0 shares
Hetzner FTW: Crying All The Way To The Bank
Trading AWS for bare metal hosting like Hetzner is the tech equivalent of crying yourself to sleep at night... until you check your bank account. That moment when you realize managing your own servers is a royal pain, but the 80% cost savings makes you wipe those tears with cash. Nothing says "I've made questionable life choices" quite like SSH-ing into actual hardware at 3am, but hey, your CFO thinks you're a goddamn hero.