Programmer Humor

I bet the wheel would be better if it was written in Rust.

(Disclaimer: I have never actually written Rust.)

Just putting the finishing touches on GNAW (Gnaw's Not A Wheel)

Developer: Kill me if you must but i've turned the wheel into a modular service called systemd-wheel

I have had plenty of suggestions to do very simple things in the games I mod to blow up the lines of code and do the exact same thing I already am doing, but in a more complicated, roundabout way that ends up working slower.

"Why are you spawning blank soldiers and then equipping them, instead of spawning already equipped soldiers?"

"Because I can only spawn soldiers already equipped with stuff from a pool of premade classes, and I want to customize their loadout. It also takes 5 minutes longer to load them in already equipped for some damn reason, whereas when I do it this way it only pauses the game for 10 seconds before it's good to go."

"... ARMA's engine sucks."

"Agreed."

Here's the real question... What licenses are the wheel and door using?

I bet it uses ffmpeg...

Does the wheel fall under any cumbersome non free licenses or patents? If I want to modify this wheel to suit my needs, then share that work and information with others, am I free to do so?

How is it licensed, Jigsaw? Eh? What distro is it from? Is that a fucking Snap wheel?

We'd rather re-create reality where we know everything rather than taking the time to learn how to use a system someone else wrote.

IT and DevOPS does this too.

I worked with a group once that re-invented XML so that non-technical people could create text-based rules instead of writing code. But it ended up with a somewhat rigid naming structure with control characters and delimiters. The non technical people hated it more the actual XML they had used prior.

"Or as I've recently taken to calling it, saw plus trap"

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're refering to as wheel, is in fact, GNU/Wheel, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus wheel.

I’m thinking WaaS

unjerk: pretty bold to compare software to a wheel. it's more so like some roughly rollable shape which is why some people think they can make it more rollable, and yes those people fail from time to time

One of the worst parts about this is that I would never have thought about reinventing it until he told me not to.

Bloody reverse psychology still working on me. >:(

Spent months setting up my home server with Docker containers while learning Linux. Everything worked perfectly fine.

Then I realised Ubuntu Server is just a Debian-flavored landfill. Switched to EndeavourOS. Everything worked perfectly fine.

Then I made NixOS my daily driver and thought, "Hey, let’s ruin my weekend." Migrated the server. Everything worked perfectly fine.

Found out I could run containers as systemd services. Replaced Docker out of sheer spite using compose2nix. Everything worked perfectly fine.

Then I heard btrfs was the bee's knees. Reformatted my drives, migrated again, and spent a week learning why subvolumes are better than sex. Everything worked perfectly fine.

Got a free MacBook. Slight hardware bump. Migrated again. Spent hours fighting T2 drivers while deepthroating Tim Apple's cock. Everything worked perfectly fine.

Rewrote every systemd service as NixOS modules. Why? Something something George Mallory. Everything still works perfectly fine.

Did I ever notice a difference from the frontend? Nope.

Was this a good use of my time? Fuck no.

Did it need to happen? Does the pope compile from source in the woods?

There is a whole extra spoke in the wheel. Look, I'm not gonna reinvent it... I just... need to... adjust some values... and there! Look, its fine.

Wait.

Why is it wobbling like that?

Hold on, I just need to get rid of this other spoke...

Reinventing the wheel leads to a profound understanding of why wheels are round.

I'll just steal the wheel and reinvent it later

Hmm... How many significant figures of pi was it made to?

So, your plan is to kill people of starvation and sleep deprivation?

The wheel has had a number of innovations over the years. The earliest wheels were flat disks of wood that were heavy and slow turning. The Romans invented spokes and metal rims which made them faster, more durable, and gave them more traction. Questions we need answered: What is this wheel in particular designed to do? Is there any way we could make it work more efficiently at its task? Do we value performance over reliability, or vice versa? Etc. Etc.

All those wheels made without any unit tests. What was humanity thinking?

Hmmm what if this wheel could roll itself? If we use the power of 7 suns we could put ~~AI~~ cocaine in it.

Have you ever used wheel-el in emacs? It really sets a high bar.

Listen here, "bro". "Fine" is well below my standard, ok?? The world wasn't built on "fine", now was it? No! It wasn't! ᶠᶦⁿᵉ ᶦˢ ⁿᵒᵗ ᵍᵒᵒᵈ ᵉⁿᵒᵘᵍʰ ᶠᶠˢ ⁻⁻⁻ ⁻⁻ ⁻⁻⁻⁻ ⁻⁻⁻⁻ ⁽ᵗʳᵃᶦˡᶦⁿᵍ ᵐᵘᵐᵇˡᵉˢ⁾

"I WOULDN'T BE REINVENTING IT IF THEY DIDN'T FORCE ~~systemd~~ AXLES ON EVERY WHEEL!!!"

Joke's on you, the wheel was reinvented plenty of times.

This is a poorly designed horror trap. Here, let me help you!

Not even in programming but I'd have to at least test the wheel see if it's as good as I'm told