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When It's Cold!

16 hours ago 165.4K views 1 shares

Normal people when it's cold: hold hands for warmth like civilized humans. Programmers when it's cold: clutch their laptop/phone charger brick like it's a portable radiator. That power adapter running at full throttle? Chef's kiss. Nothing says "I've optimized my survival strategy" quite like using your device's thermal output as a hand warmer. Bonus points if you're running a build process or training a model just to generate extra BTUs. Who needs gloves when you've got a 65W USB-C charger pumping out heat like a tiny furnace? The real question is: are you team laptop-on-lap-for-maximum-warmth or team external-GPU-mining-rig-as-space-heater?

AMD GPU Driver Package Installs 6 GB AI Companion By Default

Hardware AI Windows

23 hours ago 197.1K views 0 shares

AMD GPU Driver Package Installs 6 GB AI Companion By Default

So you just wanted to update your GPU drivers to get that sweet 2% performance boost in your favorite game, but AMD said "Hold up bestie, let me throw in a 6.4 GB AI chatbot you absolutely didn't ask for!" Because nothing screams "essential graphics driver" like an offline virtual assistant that probably can't even tell you why your framerate drops during boss fights. The actual chipset drivers? A reasonable 74 MB. But the AI companion? That bad boy is consuming more storage than most indie games. It's giving very much "would you like to install McAfee with your Adobe Reader?" energy. At least they're being transparent about the bloatware this time, with helpful buttons like "Do Not Install" and "Do Not Enable" practically BEGGING you to opt out. Fun fact: This is AMD's way of competing in the AI race—by forcefully making you their AI beta tester whether you like it or not. Welcome to 2025, where your GPU drivers come with more baggage than your ex.

May Be It Was Just Having A Bad Day

Debugging Programming Testing

22 hours ago 196.7K views 0 shares

You know that special kind of existential dread when code that was broken yesterday suddenly works today without any changes? Like, did the compiler just wake up on the right side of the bed? Did the server finally get its morning coffee? The universe is gaslighting you into thinking you're a competent developer when really, your code is just playing psychological warfare. The worst part? You'll never know what was actually wrong. Was it a caching issue? A race condition that only manifests during Mercury retrograde? Did you accidentally fix it while rage-typing other code? Nope. You just sit there, sipping your drink with that "interesting" energy, pretending this is totally normal and you definitely meant for this to happen. Pro tip: Just commit it before the code changes its mind again. Don't ask questions. Don't investigate. Ship it and run.

How To Impress Vibe Coders

Debugging Devops Programming Testing Backend

22 hours ago 195.0K views 0 shares

So you're the absolute madlad who debugs directly in production? That's basically the developer equivalent of performing surgery on yourself while skydiving. No staging environment, no local testing, just raw chaos and a direct line to the database that powers your company's revenue. The "vibe coders" are absolutely shook because while they're over here running their code through three different environments and writing unit tests, you're out there cowboy coding with console.log() statements in prod at 3 PM on a Friday. It's the programming equivalent of telling people you don't use version control—technically impressive in the worst possible way. Nothing says "I live dangerously" quite like a production hotfix with zero rollback plan. Your DevOps team probably has your face on a dartboard.

How It Feels Writing SQL

Databases Programming Backend

14 hours ago 193.4K views 0 shares

You ask SQL for something simple like "give me the first 100 users" and it responds by VIOLENTLY LAUNCHING YOU INTO THE STRATOSPHERE like you just insulted its entire family tree. SQL doesn't do "gentle" or "proportional responses" – it's either giving you exactly what you want with surgical precision OR it's yeeting your entire production database into the void because you forgot a semicolon. There's literally no in-between. One tiny query and suddenly you're SpongeBob getting absolutely OBLITERATED by Patrick's raw, unfiltered power. The drama! The chaos! The sheer unnecessary force of it all!

Top Programming Dance

Devops Databases Backend Cloud

20 hours ago 189.7K views 0 shares

Because OBVIOUSLY the best way to handle a major Elasticsearch migration is through the power of interpretive dance! Nothing says "professional DevOps strategy" quite like busting out TikTok choreography while your production cluster is screaming in agony. The sheer desperation of suggesting dance moves as a solution to migrating from Elasticsearch 5.x to 9.x is *chef's kiss* levels of absurdity. Like yeah Karen, let me just hit the Renegade real quick and magically all our deprecated APIs will update themselves! Breaking changes? Incompatible plugins? Data reindexing nightmares? Just vibe it out bestie! 💃

Please Fix This Problem

Git Programming Debugging

13 hours ago 188.4K views 0 shares

Someone just filed a GitHub issue on "the-algorithm" repo (you know, that little Twitter codebase) complaining that women's profiles don't respond when they text them. The sheer AUDACITY to treat a dating app bug report like it's a legitimate software issue is sending me into orbit. My guy really wrote "Please fix this problem" like he's reporting a critical production bug when the only thing broken here is his approach to human interaction. The reactions say it all—95 thumbs up, 22 laughing emojis, and a party parrot because apparently the entire developer community collectively decided this was comedy gold. Sorry buddy, but there's no pull request that's gonna merge you into someone's heart. Have you tried debugging your pickup lines instead?

Uber Hiring Security Engineers

Security Programming

13 hours ago 187.2K views 0 shares

Oh look, Uber is suddenly on a MASSIVE security hiring spree! Multiple senior security positions posted 3 days ago across different cities? Nothing suspicious about that AT ALL. It's almost like something catastrophic happened recently that made them realize "hey, maybe we should actually have people who know what they're doing protecting our systems?" The desperation is practically radiating off the screen. When a company drops this many security job postings simultaneously, you just KNOW someone's having a very bad week explaining to the board why the crown jewels got exposed. Fun fact: Companies typically hire security engineers BEFORE the breach, not after. But hey, better late than never, right? 🔥

Biblically Accurate Java Class

Java Webdev Programming Backend

23 hours ago 184.7K views 0 shares

Enterprise Java developers looked upon the inheritance hierarchy and saw that it was deeply nested, and they said "it is good." Just like those biblically accurate angels with their infinite eyes and spinning wheels of fire, this Spring Boot controller class comes with an inheritance chain so long it could trace its ancestry back to the Big Bang. Seven layers of abstraction deep, implementing approximately 47 interfaces (give or take a dimension), because why have a simple REST controller when you can have ControllerEndpointHandlerMapping that inherits from classes with names longer than a CVS receipt? The "Aware" interfaces at the bottom are the cherry on top—your class needs to be aware of literally everything in the Spring ecosystem. ServletContextAware? Check. EmbeddedValueResolverAware? Obviously. At this point, the class is more aware than a meditation guru. This is what happens when you let enterprise architects cook without supervision.

First Place But At What Cost

Programming Algorithms

15 hours ago 173.1K views 0 shares

You know you've entered dangerous territory when winning a programming competition feels like a Pyrrhic victory. Sure, you got first place and bragging rights, but your code is so horrifically cursed that even Boromir—who literally tried to steal the Ring—would've placed higher on the morality scale. Maybe it's held together with duct tape and prayer, riddled with global variables, or has a time complexity that makes O(n!) look efficient. Either way, you won, but your soul (and your codebase) paid the price. Sometimes the real competition is between you and your conscience.

For That Modern Web Feeling

Javascript Webdev Programming Frontend

11 hours ago 171.3K views 0 shares

Someone literally wrote 15 lines of JavaScript to make a page fade out. You know what else makes a page disappear? Closing the tab. Takes zero lines of code. But no, we need to set the page opacity to 30%, create a spinner element with inline styles that would make any CSS developer weep, position it dead center with transforms (because apparently flexbox is too mainstream), add a linear infinite rotation animation with hardcoded pixel dimensions, append it to the body, wait 750ms, then fade everything out and remove the spinner. All of this to simulate "loading" when the function literally does nothing except waste three-quarters of a second of the user's life. Modern web development is just adding spinners to make users think something important is happening. Spoiler: it's not. The best part? The setTimeout callback has an empty action() function. Chef's kiss. Peak web engineering right there.

Why Does My Laptop Take Forever To Start?

Hardware Devops Docker Programming

15 hours ago 167.7K views 0 shares

Why Does My Laptop Take Forever To Start?

When your laptop is running so hot it's basically a panini press at this point. That's not thermal throttling, that's thermal *threatening*. The CPU isn't just overheating—it's literally grilling itself into submission while you wait seventeen years for Docker containers to spin up and your IDE to load. Every developer has been there: watching your laptop transform from a computing device into a portable George Foreman grill, wondering if you should just cook breakfast on it while waiting for those 47 Chrome tabs and 12 VS Code windows to boot up. The startup time isn't measured in seconds anymore—it's measured in how many eggs you can fry.

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