When Wednesday Never Ends

Content jorin 22 h YawningJorin Use programming-positive language! DON'T say "arbitrary code execution vulnerability" DO say "surprise extension API" 3:40 PM Dec 11, 2021 Twitter for Android 329 Retweets 10 Quote Tweets 1,055 Likes

PC users panic when their GPU hits 80°C. Meanwhile, laptop owners casually sip coffee while their device doubles as a space heater during Zoom calls. Nothing says "working from home" like coding with third-degree thigh burns and watching your battery drain faster than your morning coffee. The real reason laptop cooling pads exist? So you can still have children someday.

The classic Unix terminology strikes again! In operating systems like Linux, fork() creates a child process and kill terminates a process. So when programmers casually discuss "killing child processes" or "forking children," it sounds completely normal to us but absolutely horrifying to everyone else. It's the perfect example of why programmers should never discuss work at dinner parties unless they want to end up on some kind of watchlist.

The classic "I'll just roll my own" energy right here. Using random , time , or os modules for random number generation? That's for normies who understand entropy and cryptographic security. Real chads hardcode their RNG by... wait, what? Just picking a number and calling it random? The top panel shows the sensible approach—leveraging well-tested external modules that actually use system entropy, hardware noise, or timing jitter to generate proper random numbers. The bottom panel? That's the developer who thinks return 4; // chosen by fair dice roll. guaranteed to be random. is peak engineering. It's deterministic chaos masquerading as randomness, and honestly, it's the kind of confidence that breaks cryptographic systems and makes security researchers weep into their coffee. Pro tip: If your random number generator doesn't involve at least some external entropy source, you're basically just writing fan fiction about randomness.

OH. MY. GOD. It's the Boston GPU Party! 💀 Instead of dumping tea into the harbor, these revolutionary programmers are HURLING GRAPHICS CARDS into the water! "No taxation without ray tracing!" they scream while tossing perfectly good NVIDIA GPUs overboard. The absolute DRAMA of it all! Can you IMAGINE wasting thousands of dollars worth of computing power just because of tariffs? The colonial gamers and machine learning engineers must be DEVASTATED watching their 4090s sink to the bottom of Boston Harbor. This is what happens when you mess with a developer's hardware budget, people! The revolution will NOT be rendered at low settings! 🔥

Content EVERYONE NOW WE FINATI? SEE THAT THE PEOPLE HOLDING THE WORLD TOGETHER ARE THE ONES WORKING IN MEDICAL FOOD, BANKING AND OTHER BASIC NEEDS INDUSTRIES PEOPLE WHO KEEP THE IT SYSTEMS ALIVE SO EVERYONE ELSE CAN DO THEIR JOB, REMOTELY OR NOT: