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The existential crisis of every imposter syndrome-riddled developer! This dev knows their code is held together by StackOverflow answers and prayer, so if an aviation company thinks they're qualified enough to hire, that's a terrifying red flag about who's building flight systems. The ultimate paradox: succeeding at the interview would confirm their worst fear—that the bar is low enough that even they could pass. And suddenly every turbulence bump becomes "oh god, did I write that part?"

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Job security through obfuscation - the oldest trick in the book. That lead dev really said "documentation is for people who plan to leave" and then peaced out for half a year. Now you're staring at 2000+ lines of critical infrastructure code with zero comments, variable names like x1 and temp_final_v3_actual , and the only person who understands it is currently sipping margaritas on a beach somewhere with their phone off. The real power move here is making yourself irreplaceable not through excellence, but through creating a knowledge monopoly. It's like holding the entire company hostage with your brain. Can't fire you, can't promote you away from the code, can't even let you take PTO without the whole system potentially imploding. Toxic? Maybe. Effective? Absolutely. Pro tip: This strategy works until the company decides it's cheaper to rewrite everything from scratch than deal with your ransom demands. Then you become the legacy system that gets deprecated.

Behold, the entire internet balanced precariously on a single HTTP client library that's probably maintained by three people in their spare time. One tiny package sitting at the foundation of everything, because apparently we all decided that writing fetch() ourselves was too much effort. The dependency chain is real. Your banking app? Axios. Your smart fridge? Axios. That startup claiming to revolutionize AI blockchain synergy? You guessed it—Axios at the bottom, holding up the entire Jenga tower. When it gets compromised, we all go down together like a distributed denial of civilization. Fun fact: The npm ecosystem has over 2 million packages, and somehow they all seem to depend on the same 47 libraries. Supply chain security is just spicy trust issues with extra steps.

Content Breaking: Mars becomes the second planet that has more computers running Linux than Windows. How NASA Designed a Helicopter That Could Fly Autonomously on Mars Anything else you can share with us that engineers might find particularly interesting? This the first time we'll be flying Linux on Mars. We're actually running on a Linux operating system. The software framework that we're using is one that we developed at JPL for cubesats and instruments, and we open-sourced it a few years ago. So, you can get the software framework that's flying on the Mars helicopter, and use it on your own project.

Content Automotive News Green Technology Tesla Cybertruck May Have A Rust Problem Joel Patel - February 8, 2024 M Email f One of the more standout qualities of the Tesla Cybertruck is its bare stainless-steel body. The stainless-steel body gives the Cybertruck a unique design, but also brings unique problems. While some people believe that stainless steel can't rust, the truth of the matter is that stainless steel can and will rust, which is something Cybertruck owners are quickly learning. Posted in rfacepalm ProdrammerHumor.io reddit