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by pjvsvsrtrxc 1462 days ago
And yet, even with all the evidence that modern, heavily-bloated software development is AWFUL (constant bugs and breakage because no one writing code understands any of the software sitting between them and the machine, much less understands the machine; Rowhammer, Spectre, Meltdown, and now Hertzbleed; sitting there waiting multiple seconds for something to launch up another copy of the web browser you already have running just so that you can have chat, hi Discord)... you still have all the people in the comments below trying to come up with reasons why "oh no it's actually good, the poor software developers would have to actually learn something instead of copying code off of Stack Overflow without understanding it".
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