Don’t know how I’ve never come across this, but this made me laugh and cry and nod appreciatively.
It is telling that I read the entire post feeling varying degrees of incredulity and despair, yet what really upset me was the missing
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at the beginning.“This is so funny and painful!”
Is this what burnout looks like?
In about 2 weeks this will be 10 years old
And I’m honestly astonished I’d never come across this before. This ranks up there with the story of Mel.
Mel, a real programmer!
I’d add a motherfucking website. While not exactly a story, it’s one of my favorite bits on the internets
everything beyond https://motherfuckingwebsite.com is worse imo
Nah, it takes very little effort or compute to get something much much better in pretty much every aspect.
The only reason coders’ computers work better than non-coders’ computers is coders know computers are schizophrenic little children with auto-immune diseases and we don’t beat them when they’re bad.
Well… said?
Which is odd- I threaten mine, and that’s why it behaves.
opens htop threateningly
Pid 3386 behave or I am gonna SIGKILL all your children. That’s not an EMPTY THREAT. In fact I will start with the first one RIGHT NOW.
ERROR: Attempted to parse HTML with regular expression; system returned Cthulhu.
classic.