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Look How They Massacred My AWK
Bash Programming StackOverflow Linux
15 days ago 95.9K views 0 shares
Look How They Massacred My AWK
Remember when AWK was actually used for text processing instead of just being that weird command in Stack Overflow answers? The existential crisis is real. This poor utility is having a mid-career breakdown after realizing its entire existence has been reduced to "print columns" by junior devs who have no idea about its pattern scanning and processing language capabilities. Like finding out your PhD is only being used to open beer bottles. The robot's face at the end is every senior engineer watching new grads discover grep for the first time.

OCR Is Infuriating
AI Programming Debugging Testing
1 month ago 79.5K views 0 shares
OCR Is Infuriating
The sweet irony of OCR technology! Nothing quite matches that special rage when your computer—with its fancy machine learning algorithms—somehow can't recognize text in a font IT LITERALLY INSTALLED ITSELF. It's like having a roommate who stocks the fridge with beer but then forgets what beer looks like. "What's this strange amber liquid in bottles? Never seen it before!" And yet we keep trusting computers with increasingly complex tasks while they still struggle with the digital equivalent of "is this my hand?"

The Regex Backslash Apocalypse
Vim Programming Linux Debugging
1 month ago 166.6K views 0 shares
The Regex Backslash Apocalypse
Sweet mother of backslashes! The absolute AUDACITY of this developer thinking Vim regex and Perl regex are interchangeable! Honey, that's like showing up to a knife fight with a spoon! 💀 The final panel is the regex equivalent of a horror movie jumpscare - that unholy abomination of backslashes would make any text file burst into flames! And a 700MB text file?! Who hurt you?!