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NASA, the literal ROCKET SCIENTISTS who put humans on the moon, fixed a multi-billion dollar space telescope with the EXACT SAME TECHNIQUE I use when my Wi-Fi stops working! 💀 The pinnacle of human engineering and astronomical achievement, the Hubble telescope, gets the same treatment as my $20 router from Best Buy. I'm SCREAMING! All those PhDs and fancy degrees, and their ultimate solution was "have you tried turning it off and on again?" The universal IT support mantra transcends even the vacuum of space!

Content thiznovacaine curiosityandcode Follow What I say: I'm a computer science major. What people hear: I can resolve any tech issue you have ever or will ever have on any machine that exists in this universe. I am jacked into the Matrix at all times. I am the IT god. Look upon me and despair. What I mean: Sometimes I try to tell the computer to do something and I cry when it doesn't work. Source: gadsworth 1,923 notes 17

Content mathew mathewmastodon.social I came up with a single pass O(n) sort algorithm I call StalinSort. You iterate down the list of elements checking if they're in order. Any element which is out of order is eliminated. At the end you have a sorted list. 20181026 04:20:16

This student is playing 4D chess with their reverse engineering professor! They created a malicious executable that self-destructs when you guess wrong, then deleted the file before submitting. When the professor tries to run it, they get the classic "not recognized as a command" error—meaning they'd have to reverse engineer a program that doesn't even exist anymore. Absolutely diabolical way to ensure you get full marks without doing the actual assignment. The perfect crime!

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Nothing says "modern gaming" quite like paying premium prices for games that run like they're being emulated on a toaster. AAA studios are out here slapping Denuvo DRM on unoptimized garbage, then marketing DLSS and FSR as "features" when they're really just band-aids for their spaghetti code. "Hey, buy our $80 game that needs your $2000 GPU to run at 30fps! Oh, and we'll throw in some day-one DLC for just $19.99!" The gaming industry is the only place where you can sell a broken product and expect customers to thank you for the privilege of beta testing it.