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Memes

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Meme in the "My child will X" format. Here the devil says "My child will USE A COMBINATION OF LATEST LOSSY AND LOSSLESS IMAGE FORMATS TO ENSURE AN IDEAL RATIO OF QUALITY, FILE SIZE, LOAD TIMES, AND COMPATIBILITY FOR ALL PURPOSES." Jesus on the other hand doesn't say anything: His speech bubble is instead formed by a screenshot of a unix terminal with the snippet "convert image.png image.jpg; rm image.png," which was executed and is followed by an ImageMagick deprecation warning.

Explaining the meme

Pretty much me putting pictures onto this site. Putting images into Git and onto GitLab with 1GB limit is crazy work.

The fact the snippet doesn't even use && and instead uses ;, which doesn't even check if the previous command succeeded before deleting the original file, is a cherry on top.

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Meme in the "My Body Is a Machine That Turns X Into Y" format, where X is Iced, the Rust GUI library, represented by a screenshot of their landing page, and Y is a terminal stack trace resulting from a runtime crash.

Explaining the meme

Iced applications have this funny thing of crashing on my X11 NixOS like, every single time.

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Meme in the "In Order to Play the Joker, Joaquin Phoenix..." format. In this case it continues with "had to validate one SQL INSERT statement."

Explaining the meme

A joke on how many edge cases and complicated logic handling SQL INSERT statements have. Matdb's INSERT handling logic has around ~200 lines of code (entirely unrelated to anything storage wise, just checking for edge cases and stuff). This is despite the fact matdb only implements a tiny fraction of the usual SQL INSERT functionality.

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Meme in the "This Fucking Sucks Actually" format, but instead of saying "sucks" the character says "rocks" and "literal coolest thing ever" is replaced with "literal lamest thing ever." Literal lamest thing ever is here Japan, represented by the Japanese flag, and the man in the thinking cap is a random Discord dude's profile picture.

Explaining the meme

iirc, dude was upholding Japan as a successful western country, compared to all the other ones (meaning the 'woke' ones really)

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A discord message replying to a message. The message it is replying to reads: "standards for evidence are like nonexistent there as far as I can tell". This new message reads "plot looks like random noise" "economist draws a line through it" "R^2 = 0.2" "this is the relationship"

Explaining the meme

Economists making up wild claims and models with bullshit evidence.

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Meme in the "Look What They Need to Mimic a Fraction of Our Power" format. The fighter jets are replaced with an article titled "A Shiny New Programming Language." The article talks abotu a language called 'Mirror.' It is supposedly an AI-powered languages, where functions are generated by AI from a given set of argument/result examples. Omni-Man (the guy saying the thing in the meme) is replaced by Prolog, represented by the logo of SWI Prolog.

Explaining the meme

Mirror seems to be vaguely reminiscent of Prolog. Prolog also doesn't "code." Programs are composed of logic statements. This seems kinda like that, except instead of a sound thing like logic statements, it's the completely ridiculous unsound thing: examples.

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A meme in the "Stop Doing Math" format. The following sentences: "STOP DOING STOCKS" "COMPANIES WERE NOT SUPPOSED TO ISSUE SHARES" "YEARS OF STOCK MARKET MANIPULATION yet NO REAL-WORLD USE FOUND for SPECULATING ON NON EXISTANT VALUE" "Wanted to INVEST IN A COMPANY? We had a tool for that: It was called BONDS" "Yes please give me WORTHLESS SHARES. Please give me PAPER HOT POTATO" - "Statements dreamed up by the utterly Deranged" "LOOK at what DAY TRADERS have been demanding your Respect for all this time, with all the PLATFORMS & FEEDS we built for them" "(This is REAL ANALYSIS done by REAL DAY TRADERS):" [3 charts with stock patterns follow] "Hello I would like" [chart shoving a stock crash in value] "please" "They have played us for absolute fools"

Explaining the meme

i think i was trying to point out the ridiculousness of the stock market, how public companies are usually more hurt by stocks than helped, how stocks really are just fugazi

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A meme in the "Draw 25" format. Here the card says "admit oop was a bad idea OR add an extension." The next image is the guy holding 25 cards overlayed with text naming a never ending list of OOP related features in various languages.

Explaining the meme

If OOP is so good, why do you need so many language features to make it useable? This did numbers on reddit, with me being about as annoying as I always am. Overall probably lost quite a few karma points on that.

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A meme in the "Oppenheimer head in hand" format. The caption reads: "the 'pointless pointer chasing' wasn't all that pointless."

Explaining the meme

So you have some sort of an entity in, let's say, a game. You got multiple of these entities in fact. You got them in an array or a list of some kind. To reference them in other stuff you take their index in the thing and use it as an id. But isn't this so wasteful, couldn't you just take the pointer and use it as a reference? Oh why, yes! Of course you could! And if you did, congrats! Now you have no good way of taking IDs to them, memory managment becomes way harder, serialization becomes more complicates, oh damn, you really maybe there was a point to that pointer chasing!

This did NOT do numbers on Reddit.

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A meme in the "I Bring a Sort Of X Vibe to the Y" format. The X in this case are numerous FireFox extensions, the Y is the Internet, and the ones who don't like it are CloudFlare recaptchas."

Explaining the meme

CloudFlare recaptcha seems to really not fuck with those extensions. For a time, I literally couldn't access any site that required me to go through CloudFlare recaptcha.

This did do numbers on Reddit.