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The Rust Propaganda Agent

4 hours ago 51.8K views 0 shares

Rust developers have achieved what no religion, political movement, or MLM scheme ever could: converting people in public restrooms. The Rust evangelist can't even let you have a peaceful bathroom break without launching into their sermon about memory safety and zero-cost abstractions. You're just trying to mind your own business, and suddenly you're getting lectured about how your Python script is single-handedly melting the polar ice caps. The funniest part? They're not wrong, but the audacity to start this conversation at a urinal is peak Rust community energy. There's literally a bathroom etiquette rule about not talking to strangers, but apparently that doesn't apply when you're on a mission to save the planet one rewritten codebase at a time. Next thing you know, they'll be sliding Rust documentation under bathroom stalls.

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Windows Hardware Microsoft Programming Debugging

2 days ago 256.3K views 0 shares

When you open Task Manager to see which app is eating your CPU alive, and suddenly everything drops to 43% like your computer is trying to act casual. "Who, me? I wasn't doing anything suspicious!" It's like when your parents walked into your room as a teenager—instant behavioral correction. Your machine goes from sounding like a jet engine to purring like a kitten the moment Task Manager appears. Those 298 processes? All angels now. Nothing to see here. The real question is: what were those 5470 threads doing before you looked? Probably mining crypto for Electron apps.

This Is So Bad That It's So Good

Security Programming php Databases Backend

6 days ago 218.7K views 0 shares

Someone just reinvented the equality operator with extra steps. The ifBothCorrect function literally just checks if two values are equal, but instead of using === or == , they wrote an entire function that assigns them to variables, compares them, and returns true or false. It's like using a forklift to pick up a pencil. But wait, there's more! The authentication logic fetches ALL usernames and ALL passwords from the database, then loops through them in nested foreach loops to validate credentials. That's O(n²) complexity for what should be a single database query. Your database is crying. Your security team is crying. I'm crying. The cherry on top? They're storing passwords in plain text (look at that getAllPasswords() call). This code is a security audit's final boss. It's so beautifully terrible that it almost feels like performance art.

AI Slop

AI Hardware Programming

6 days ago 209.4K views 0 shares

Running a local LLM on your machine is basically watching your RAM get devoured in real-time. You boot up that 70B parameter model thinking you're about to revolutionize your workflow, and suddenly your 32GB of RAM is gone faster than your motivation on a Monday morning. The OS starts sweating, Chrome tabs start dying, and your computer sounds like it's preparing for takeoff. But hey, at least you're not paying per token, right? Just paying with your hardware's dignity and your electricity bill.

It May Be Slow But It's Useful

Python Programming

8 days ago 243.6K views 0 shares

The Python community in a nutshell: a perfect bell curve distribution where the extremes agree on the same thing for completely different reasons. The beginners think Python is good because it's easy and reads like English. The experts think Python is good because they've already optimized everything with C extensions and numpy, so performance doesn't matter anymore. Meanwhile, the midwits in the middle are having an existential crisis about GIL limitations, execution speed, and why their script takes 5 seconds to import pandas. They've learned just enough to be dangerous and just enough to be annoyed. The real kicker? All three groups are right. Python IS slow and horrible. Python IS good. It's the Schrödinger's cat of programming languages—simultaneously productive and painful until you open the performance profiler.

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Hardware Devops Docker Programming Backend

13 days ago 207.7K views 0 shares

Your manager wants you to deploy a microservices architecture with real-time data processing and AI-powered analytics. Meanwhile, your work laptop is still running on that Intel Core i3 from 2015 with 4GB of RAM and takes 10 minutes to boot up. The fan sounds like it's preparing for takeoff but never quite makes it. Sure, I'll just spin up those Docker containers on a machine that crashes when I open more than three Chrome tabs. No problem at all.

Unused Ram Is Ram Wasted

Javascript Webdev Windows Programming Debugging

14 days ago 231.1K views 0 shares

Electron apps took the "unused RAM is wasted RAM" philosophy and ran with it straight into the ground. That single Electron app casually munching on 6.73 TB of memory? Yeah, that's just Slack trying to display three channels and a gif. Meanwhile, Chrome is sitting in the corner nodding approvingly. The beauty of bundling an entire Chromium browser just to render some buttons is that you get to pretend memory constraints don't exist. Who needs optimization when you can just tell users to download more RAM? The fact that it's using 8% CPU while doing absolutely nothing is just the cherry on top of this performance disaster sundae.

When Ram Is So Precious Nowadays!

Docker Devops Hardware Programming Backend

15 days ago 221.4K views 0 shares

Docker containers are supposed to be lightweight and resource-efficient. Spoiler alert: they're not. CPU asks Docker if it can spin up some containers? Sure thing, papa. CPU asks if it can actually use some RAM? Absolutely not. CPU tries to tell a white lie about memory usage? Denied. But when Docker itself opens its mouth, you see com.docker.hyperkit casually consuming 9.06 GB like it's ordering a venti at Starbucks. The irony is thicker than your swap file. Docker preaches containerization and efficiency while its own hypervisor process eats RAM like Chrome's distant cousin at a family reunion. Your containers might be lean, but Docker Desktop? That's a different story.

Can We Just Use System Fonts Please Designer Please

Frontend Webdev Programming

16 days ago 239.0K views 0 shares

Can We Just Use System Fonts Please Designer Please

Web designers will fight you to the death over importing a 500KB custom font file that looks exactly like Arial but costs $299 per year. Meanwhile, developers are out here begging on their knees: "Please, just use system-ui . It's free, it's fast, it loads instantly, and users already have it!" But no. Designers see font-family: system-ui; and experience genuine psychological horror. That simple CSS declaration represents everything they fear: practicality over aesthetics, performance over perfection, and the terrifying possibility that maybe, just maybe, Helvetica Neue is good enough. The best part? Users literally cannot tell the difference. But that 3-second load time from your Google Fonts import? They definitely notice that.

My Cpu Is Scared I Might Replace It So It Has Started Putting In 110% Effort

Cloud Linux Testing Backend

17 days ago 161.2K views 0 shares

My Cpu Is Scared I Might Replace It So It Has Started Putting In 110% Effort

Content Performance CPU 110% 3.99 GHz Memory 28.3/31.9 GB (89%) Disk O (H:) HDD (SATA) 0% Disk 1 (E; HDD (SATA) 0% Disk 2 (F:) SSD (SATA) 0% Disk 3 (C:) SSD (NVMe) 0% CPU % Utilisation

1990s Gamers Vs. 2020s Gamers

Hardware Gamedev

23 days ago 286.0K views 0 shares

The evolution of gaming expectations in a nutshell. Back in the '90s, gamers were just happy if the cartridge actually loaded without blowing into it three times. "The game runs? Amazing! 10/10 would play again." Fast forward to 2020s where we've got RGB-lit gaming rigs that could probably run NASA simulations, and gamers are having existential crises because their FPS dropped from 167 to 165—a difference literally imperceptible to the human eye. The contrast is beautiful: a chunky CRT monitor on a wooden desk versus a curved ultrawide with a glass panel PC showing off its RGB fans. We went from "it works!" to obsessively monitoring frame times and getting tilted over 2 FPS drops. The hardware got exponentially better, but somehow our tolerance for imperfection got exponentially worse. Welcome to the future, where your $3000 setup still isn't good enough for your anxiety.

When GPU Isn't The Only Problem Anymore

Hardware Gamedev

24 days ago 338.7K views 0 shares

Dropped $2000 on an RTX 5090 thinking you've ascended to gaming nirvana, only to discover your entire setup is held together by decade-old components running at peasant specs. Your shiny new flagship GPU is basically a Ferrari engine strapped to a horse-drawn carriage. That 1080p 60Hz monitor? It's like buying a telescope and looking through a toilet paper roll. And that CPU from the Obama administration? Yeah, it's bottlenecking harder than merge day with 47 unresolved conflicts. The 5090 is just sitting there, using about 12% of its power, wondering what it did to deserve this life. Classic case of optimizing the wrong part of the system. It's like refactoring your frontend to shave off 2ms while your backend is running SQL queries that would make a database admin weep.

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