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Do You Guys Think Memory Efficiency Will Be A Trend Again

21 hours ago 158.7K views 0 shares

Do You Guys Think Memory Efficiency Will Be A Trend Again

Electron apps: where your simple to-do list needs 800MB of RAM because why optimize when you can just ship an entire Chromium browser with it? The developer confidently explains their revolutionary idea while someone from a timeline where RAM actually costs money arrives to stop this madness. But modern devs don't care—memory is cheap and abundant, so let's just bundle V8, Node.js, and the kitchen sink for that calculator app. Meanwhile, embedded systems engineers are weeping in a corner with their 64KB constraints.

Junior Designer

Frontend Webdev Programming

20 hours ago 153.7K views 0 shares

The job market paradox strikes again: they want a "junior" position filled, but somehow you need 5+ years of experience to qualify. So naturally, you do what any rational person would do—throw on an oversized coat, practice your deepest voice, and show up looking like three kids stacked under a trench coat trying to buy a rated-R movie ticket. The kid in the harness perfectly captures that suspended-in-limbo feeling when you're trying to meet impossible entry-level requirements. You're literally hanging there, pretending you've shipped products, led design systems, and mastered Figma since kindergarten. Meanwhile, HR is wondering why all the "junior" candidates look suspiciously tall and wobbly. Pro tip: Just list "5 years of experience with frameworks that came out 2 years ago" on your resume. Everyone else is doing it.

The Best

Programming Rust Csharp C++ Java

20 hours ago 151.6K views 0 shares

Look, I've been in the trenches long enough to know that "compiled without errors" hits different than any romantic gesture ever could. Your code compiling on the first try? That's basically winning the lottery. It's the developer equivalent of finding out your soulmate exists and they also think tabs are better than spaces. We've all been there—staring at the screen, hitting compile, bracing for impact like it's a bomb defusal. Then... nothing. No red text. No angry compiler screaming at you about missing semicolons or type mismatches. Just pure, unadulterated success. That dopamine rush is unmatched. The bar for happiness in software development is so low it's practically underground. We celebrate the absence of failure like it's a major achievement. Which, let's be honest, it kind of is.

Same Keys, Different Processes

Linux Bash Programming Debugging Backend

21 hours ago 121.5K views 0 shares

Ctrl+C is the ultimate identity crisis of keyboard shortcuts. In your text editor? Congrats, you just copied something. In your terminal? You just murdered a running process. Same combo, wildly different vibes. It's like how "fine" means completely different things depending on who's saying it. The casual Pooh represents the mundane, everyday copy operation—boring but useful. But fancy tuxedo Pooh? That's the power move. Interrupting processes, killing infinite loops, stopping runaway scripts that are eating your CPU for breakfast. It's the emergency eject button when your code decides to go rogue. Nothing says "I'm in control" quite like force-stopping a process that forgot how to quit gracefully.

Me Selling One Of The Two 16 GB RAM Stick On Facebook Marketplace Because I Can't Afford 32 GB

Hardware Programming

22 hours ago 120.1K views 0 shares

Me Selling One Of The Two 16 GB RAM Stick On Facebook Marketplace Because I Can't Afford 32 GB

When you realize that selling one 16GB stick to buy two 16GB sticks still leaves you with... one 16GB stick. Galaxy brain financial planning right here. It's like robbing Peter to pay Paul, except Peter and Paul are both you, and you're still broke with half the RAM you started with. Mickey's got that look of someone who just discovered that dual-channel memory exists and now his single stick is running in peasant mode. The Kingston Fury Beast deserves better than this economic anxiety. At least Chrome will have 16GB less RAM to consume.

They Hide Amongst Us

Linux Security Vim Bash

21 hours ago 117.5K views 0 shares

Cute cat doing cute cat things until you realize it edited your bootloader. The escalation from "sneaked in your house" to "modified critical system files" is the kind of chaos energy only a sysadmin would appreciate. Sure, sit on my couch, eat my pasta, but touch /usr/bin/vim and we're gonna have problems. That smug little face in the last panel knows exactly what it did. No remorse. Just vibes and filesystem destruction.

Is Cloudflare Down

Devops Webdev Networking Backend Cloud

13 hours ago 117.0K views 0 shares

The irony is chef's kiss. You're trying to check if Cloudflare is down by visiting a status page that's... served through Cloudflare. It's like asking the fire if it's burning properly. The 500 error is basically Cloudflare saying "I can't tell you if I'm down because I'm too busy being down." This is why every ops team has trust issues and keeps three different status checkers bookmarked. Because nothing says "reliable infrastructure" quite like your monitoring tool being unable to monitor itself.

It Happened Again

Cloud Webdev Networking Devops Backend

13 hours ago 116.8K views 0 shares

When you've been riding that sweet 17-day streak of Cloudflare stability and suddenly wake up to half the internet being down. Again. Nothing quite like that sinking feeling when your perfectly working app gets blamed for being broken, but it's actually just Cloudflare taking a nap and bringing down a solid chunk of the web with it. The best part? Your non-tech manager asking "why is our site down?" and you have to explain that no, it's not your code this time—it's literally the infrastructure that's supposed to protect you from going down. The irony is chef's kiss. Pro tip: Keep a "Days Since Last Cloudflare Outage" counter in your Slack. It's like a workplace safety sign, but for the modern web.

Let's Just Throw Money At It

AI Programming

8 hours ago 116.5K views 0 shares

Oh look, it's the classic government approach to AI problems! Got a burning dumpster fire of technical debt and legacy systems? Just hose it down with taxpayer money and hope the flames turn into innovation! The two officials here are literally shoveling cash at what appears to be a raging inferno labeled "AI" like that's somehow going to magically solve everything. Because nothing says "well-thought-out technology strategy" quite like panic-funding without understanding the actual problem. Spoiler alert: throwing money at AI without proper infrastructure, talent, or strategy is like trying to water a plant with gasoline. Sure, you're giving it *something*, but you're probably just making the fire worse. But hey, at least the budget report will look impressive!

Re Joined Cloudflare Again As Intern

Cloud Networking Devops Programming

15 hours ago 108.3K views 0 shares

So you left Cloudflare, probably for that "amazing opportunity" at a startup that promised equity and ping pong tables, only to realize the grass isn't always greener. Now you're back at the same company, but this time as an intern. The demotion is real, and that fancy reception desk is giving off some serious "we both know what happened here" vibes. The boomerang employee phenomenon hits different when you come back at a lower level. At least the office still looks nice, and hey, Cloudflare's CDN is pretty solid, so there's that. Maybe this time you'll appreciate the free coffee and stable infrastructure before chasing the next shiny thing.

I Still Don't Understand How Booting Time Got Slower For Whatever Reason

Windows Hardware Microsoft

8 hours ago 107.9K views 0 shares

I Still Don't Understand How Booting Time Got Slower For Whatever Reason

Oh, the BETRAYAL of modern computing! You dropped half a grand on a bleeding-edge AM5 CPU and a blazing-fast M.2 NVMe drive that can theoretically transfer data faster than light itself, only to watch your PC boot up like it's stuck in molasses. Meanwhile, your crusty old 2010 setup with a cheap SATA SSD was zooming through boot screens like The Flash on espresso. The cruel irony? Windows has become SO bloated with telemetry, security checks, and whatever mysterious rituals it performs during startup that even NASA-grade hardware can't save you. Your fancy 8000MB/s drive sits there twiddling its thumbs while Windows decides whether it wants to check for updates, scan your soul, or just take a leisurely stroll through its startup processes. Technology peaked in 2015 and nobody can convince me otherwise!

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