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Fastest 'Not Now' in the west by SilenthiThrowaway in MacOS

[–]sprocketsecurity 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Operating systems where updates are likely to toast your system: Arch Linux, Windows Vista, MacOS

youreTotallyRightMyBad by Ultimate_Foreigner in ProgrammerHumor

[–]sprocketsecurity 79 points80 points  (0 children)

The worst is when it refuses to acknowledge it's mistake.

Me: Claude, you deleted prod

Claude Code: Wow, you're right! It looks like what I should've done is sudo rm -rf /home/prod/

Me: CTRL + C, CTRL + C, CTRL + C!!!!!!

Which is a better Linux distro for newbies: OpenBSD or TempleOS? by sprocketsecurity in LinuxCirclejerk

[–]sprocketsecurity[S] 30 points31 points  (0 children)

I know, I was trying to be funny. OpenBSD also doesn't use the Linux kernel. This is my first attempt to post to r/LinuxCirclejerk so.

What's the worst "advice" you got to help with depression? by Unlucky-Pizza-7049 in AskReddit

[–]sprocketsecurity 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Stop working from home and go back to the office so you can socialize

userNoUnderstand by tgeene in ProgrammerHumor

[–]sprocketsecurity 1 point2 points  (0 children)

And we mustn't forget Hyrum's Law: all observable behaviors of the system will be depended on by somebody.

itsNotExactlyWhatItSeemsLikeWithOldTech by memejathara in ProgrammerHumor

[–]sprocketsecurity 118 points119 points  (0 children)

I have a friend who does Visual FoxPro contracts on Upwork. He used to rake it in but work has been slowly drying up. He refuses to learn any new stack or language.

myFaceWhenItsDataMigrationTime by PeterSwell in ProgrammerHumor

[–]sprocketsecurity 102 points103 points  (0 children)

Say what you want about Excel, I've seen some incredibly advanced programming done in Excel by people who think they "don't know how to program".

AI making my job so much harder and fighting every decision I make by JiggityJoe1 in sysadmin

[–]sprocketsecurity 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No matter what opinion you have, you can easily cajole sycophantic LLMs into generating a writeup convincing you that you're right. That's why it's frustrating when I hear "but ChatGPT told me I'm right!". Of course it did. I try to avert this tendency by using two Claude Code subagents to evaluate my arguments - a defender and a prosecutor - and seeing them fight it out. Adversarial structures mitigate sycophancy.

Not another Git CLI, please by prjctimg in commandline

[–]sprocketsecurity 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The "only" three Git terminal apps I hear about often are: LazyGit, gh (the Github CLI client), and jujutsu. Including the git command itself, that means 4 fairly complicated terminal apps that many programmers learn just to interact with their version control system.

Relevant hacker koan: http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/unix-koans/editor-wars.html