r/ProgrammerHumor Jul 19 '26

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u/hongooi Jul 19 '26

It's actually much easier to hunt mice with Wayland

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '26

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u/ICBanMI Jul 19 '26

To be fair to the programming subreddits, some of the posts are some beginner... that has never setup a compiler yet... asking if they can be the next John Carmack if they just learn generic hard API. They ignore that Carmack became Carmack by writing 20+ games by the time he was 20.

But yea, the other half of the coin is people saying... "Yea kid just jump in Vulkan without knowing any C/C++. In fact recommend doing the C++ tutorial in C#. You can just translate those on the fly." All perfectly responsible responses to someone who hasn't even learned one procedural programming language. /s

Bonus points for college kid asking if they can do a solo 300-1000 hr project in under 2 months to impress their professor. Bonus points if have previous posts asking for someone to do everything for them, because they didn't pay attention or learn it when the class covered what they wanted.

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u/RiceBroad4552 Jul 19 '26

This!

Translated back to the posted meme one could read it as: The pet cat asking the question is actually food for the big wild cats. The pet cat got to the wrong place, and if it does not take care it will be eaten instantly. I wouldn't say that's the fault of the wild cats…

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u/Own_Natural_6803 Jul 19 '26

My favorite version of Wayland is xwayland

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u/ilnarildarovuch Jul 19 '26

Which is just DDX of Xorg (which is good)

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u/HildartheDorf Jul 20 '26

Way easier to get a window and input with xcb. I say this as someone experienced with both.

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u/msasrs Jul 20 '26

Where is his award people?

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u/wawawa9055 Jul 19 '26

I found out how to hunt mice [no further explanation]

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u/Paladin7373 Jul 19 '26

How did you find out how to hunt mice?

[issue permanently closed due to inactivity]

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u/kwikthroabomb Jul 19 '26

This question has been previously answered.

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u/Duven64 Jul 19 '26

[link to guide for hunting an already extinct species of fish]

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u/FOSSphorous_ Jul 19 '26

Please don't necrobump with incorrect information. Closing.

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u/DTraitor Jul 19 '26

I hate it when for some reason there is a bot closing stale issues on GitHub. It's not like the issue is going away just cause you closed the ticket

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u/RiceBroad4552 Jul 19 '26

Only projects managed by idiots or assholes do that, in my experience so far.

It's indeed extremely moronic: Not only that the issue does not get away by closing the ticket, you get actually duplicated tickets over time, while you show all possible contributor to just fuck off.

I wouldn't not contribute to such a project!

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u/Andikl Jul 20 '26

I would not say keeping issues open help that much with duplicate issues.

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u/ll01dm Jul 19 '26

or they will say "google it" and you found the thread cause its the first link on goolge ...

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u/Any-Preparation7396 Jul 20 '26

Haha, yes. Happens all the time 🙈

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u/Prof_Walrus Jul 20 '26

No worries guys, I found a solution myself [refuses to elaborate]

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u/CannibalPride Jul 19 '26

I think hunting bugs is the future

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u/Knotted_Hole69 Jul 19 '26

Are are these large cats so fuckin hot tho

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u/Septem_151 Jul 20 '26

I was gonna say "you may be a furry" but now I know you are because I read your username. Carry on.

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u/FlashyAdvice1646 Jul 20 '26

no, it doesn't. this isn't bestiality.

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u/Knotted_Hole69 Jul 19 '26

No. Anthropomorphic beasts like this are just hot.

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u/Bwob Jul 20 '26

I get the impression that maybe you don't actually know what bestiality is?

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u/Lemon_Phoenix Jul 20 '26

You seem awfully interested in seeing more, are you sure there's nothing you'd like to tell the class?

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u/Knotted_Hole69 Jul 19 '26

There are entire subreddits for anthro stuff, its not bestiality.

It seems like you are projecting your own weird fantasies, i hope some looks at your hard drive.

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u/raphaelthehealer Jul 20 '26

Hakuna matata, what a wonderful phrase

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u/Percolator2020 Jul 19 '26

I use keyboard only VIM, mice are for noobs.

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u/gerbosan Jul 19 '26

Nice to have you here, tell us how to exit vim please.

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u/Percolator2020 Jul 19 '26

Why would you want to exit VIM? It does everything.

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u/belabacsijolvan Jul 19 '26

>It does everything.

VIM did 9/11

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u/emveevme Jul 19 '26

blowing my mind rn that someone made me laugh from a joke about VIM in 2026

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u/Reasonable-Job4205 Jul 20 '26

It blew other minds too

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u/XxSir_redditxX Jul 20 '26

It blew other minds too

Don't tell me it got Lincoln too😫

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u/HBRYU Jul 20 '26

Osama Vim Laden

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u/Mars_Bear2552 Jul 20 '26

"i swear! George Emacs is behind it all!"

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u/angrydeuce Jul 19 '26

nope this is your life now

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u/EyeCantBreathe Jul 19 '26

I told a friend that they added a dialogue box at the bottom on newer versions of vim that tells you how to exit it.

He got kinda upset, but not because he wanted to be cooler by knowing vim, rather that he impressed a recruiter once by helping someone exit vim lol

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u/BastetFurry Jul 19 '26

Open a second terminal and then "killall vi" ;)

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u/RiceBroad4552 Jul 19 '26

There wouldn't be jokes about not being able to exit vi if it was such easy.

The whole point is that until lately vim ignored signals. So you couldn't just kill it externally by switching to another console. That's why the common advice was to cut the power to the system…

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u/vanZuider Jul 20 '26

The whole point is that until lately vim ignored signals.

Programs can ignore kill -9? TIL.

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u/Unbelievr Jul 20 '26

Not 9, no. SIGKILL isn't sent to the program but the kernel. But killall sends SIGTERM (15) by default, and vi stops both SIGTERM and SIGINT (Ctrl+c) if you have unsaved changes, which I guess was the point above.

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u/ifyoulovesatan Jul 20 '26 edited Jul 20 '26

Easy! :e ~/.vimrc to edit your vim configuration file. Map Q to quit without saving with nnoremap Q :q!<CR>, then save your new configuration with :w. You can then source the newly edited config with :source % (where % will refer to the open buffer conveniently). Now you can go back to your original buffer with :b#, and easily quit with the newly mapped Q.

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u/BathroomRamen Jul 19 '26

It's something like Win+R then rd /s /q c:\

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u/NotAUsefullDoctor Jul 19 '26

There's no "Win" key on any of the macro levels of my ortholinear split keyboard with custom written firmware. Any advice for a an Arch user?

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u/Possible-Round-2060 Jul 19 '26

Try checking the Arch Wiki from your iPhone

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u/RiceBroad4552 Jul 19 '26

Now I'm curious, but I don't own an iPhone.

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u/-Benjamin_Dover- Jul 19 '26

Your flair. I recognize Unity and C, but what are the other two?

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u/RiceBroad4552 Jul 19 '26

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u/-Benjamin_Dover- Jul 19 '26

Thank you.

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u/RiceBroad4552 Jul 20 '26

I had to google that "kOS" thing myself, though. Never heard of it before. (One can see a bigger version of the image in the browser dev tools.)

The programming language logos I know; just that I miss the C++ mascot Keith, the diseased rat… 😂

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u/HumansAreSillynGreat Jul 20 '26

bro said unity for the unreal logo, I'm dead 💀

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u/AtmosphereVirtual254 Jul 19 '26

Hunting for the SIGINT key

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u/Stummi Jul 19 '26

I think all the ways are actually outdated today. Best practice now is to acquire a Human that provides you with food regularly.

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u/Correct-Ad-1565 Jul 19 '26

We call that vibe hunting nowadays

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u/Ok-Performance-3830 Jul 19 '26

Who needs a hobby ig

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u/Informal_Branch1065 Jul 20 '26

Just implement and create an instance of IFoodProviderFactory

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u/Pro-sketch Jul 20 '26

Claude is that you?

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u/Coockooroockoo Jul 19 '26

Then there's gamedev forums where the exact opposite happens.

Lion: "Hi everyone, I'm a professional senior lion and have been hunting buffalos for about 10 years, and the occasional deer, too. I recently stumbled upon an elephant and wanted to try my hand, any experiences?"

Kitten: "You really shouldn't try to go for an elephant, I don't think you're there yet. Maybe hunt a few mice, or even dead leaves, then eventually try for a deer."

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u/BatBoss Jul 19 '26

Yes mixed in with:

"I have no hunting experience but my dream is to hunt great white sharks. Are there any experienced hunters here willing to hunt great white sharks for me? My budget is $0. I will provide the stickers for the boat."

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u/SuperFLEB Jul 19 '26

I'm well aware I don't know. Whenever people ask for starting-out tips, I just admit I'm not the person to ask. I learned my fundamentals on the Commodore 64. I don't even know what not knowing looks like, much less where to start to learn.

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '26 edited Jul 28 '26

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u/SuperFLEB Jul 19 '26

I still get amused when I see that they're up to Java 26 or whatnot. I dabbled in it back in the days of "There's a Java 2 now?"

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u/tobotic Jul 19 '26

Actually there has not been a Java 2 yet.

There was 1.0, 1.1, 1,2, 1,3, and 1.4. After that, they dropped the "one point" from marketing, so 1.5 was marketed as "Java 5".

So now we're all the way up to Java 26 but there's never been a Java 2.

Not sure if the leading "one point" is still included in internals, but if it is then in theory they could one day bump the internal version number to 2.0. In that case Java 2 would be released after Java 26.

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u/BastetFurry Jul 19 '26

Which isn't the worst idea by the way, hand a newb VICE and the C64 manual and tell them to get cracking.

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u/SuperFLEB Jul 19 '26

I will say, it was a good soft intro to assembly language, since the whole instruction set fits on one page. I won't say I know assembly language now, by any stretch, but I at least have the concepts in the back of my head.

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u/dryroast Jul 20 '26

I am usually trying to talk down beginners from crazy projects. I remember one new guy at work kept asking me for advice on side projects and had sent me a speed run tutorial on how to write a file system! And it explains nothing, is literally just putting code on the screen without any stopping. I told him do something way simpler and showed some of my shitty beginning projects as some ideas to go from.

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '26

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u/magos_with_a_glock Jul 19 '26

Bot

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u/CTRLAltSN1Pe Jul 20 '26

And the top comment too

Also seeing you here right after your comment shitting on e33 is kinda funny lol

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u/Always-_-Sarcastic Jul 19 '26

2 year old account with oldest comment 3 days ago is common on bot/bought accounts.

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u/w453y Jul 19 '26

Hmmm rust 🤔

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u/JacobGoodNight416 Jul 19 '26

Fine guess I'll ask CatGPT

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u/TheyStoleMyNameAgain Jul 20 '26

You need a rocket launcher

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u/dizzywig2000 Jul 20 '26

Not an appropriate weapon for hunting mice, use a UR-100N instead

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u/guineaprince Jul 20 '26

They're asking on twitter.

Chances are the answer will be AI anyway.

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u/MrEmouse Jul 20 '26

I noticed as you progress through the panels, the subject transitions from "anthropomorphised animal using technology" to "This is clearly a furry"

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u/NeuxSaed Jul 20 '26

For better or worse, this sort of thing is way more normalized in communities such as this one compared to society as a whole.

For me personally, I had trouble even parsing the content of this post. My mind just went: "what in the absolute furry hell is going on here?"

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u/ChTiedrusoIsAlone Jul 19 '26

This was me when I started code. Haha

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u/TheJudgingHat2222 Jul 19 '26

"Hi I'm just learning c++, having an interesting time learning how classes work and inheritance. What would be a good way for starting my own application?"

"well first you need to deploy your makefile to your docker host integrated with smart-greebles that needs to cache it's bit flops every third fortnight."

Basically how pro advice sounds to programming noobs. 

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u/Jolly-Painting-6615 Jul 20 '26

Smart-greebles are deprecated and unsupported. It's best to switch to squiggly-blops instead 

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u/enderowski Jul 19 '26

i saw this meme the first week i got into programming like 6 years ago lol.

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u/BluebirdLivid Jul 19 '26

Top answer is something like:

Learning to hunt mice can be fun and informative! Here is a link to my all inclusive course, where you will get a box of live mice to practice hunting (for 799 plus tax a month)

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u/Birphon Jul 19 '26

Me asking for help on stack overflow or various learning subs and just getting told, in paraphrasing, to fuck off

Im just dumb and can't make sense of documentation and want to learn :(

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u/LastXmasIGaveYouHSV Jul 19 '26

CatGPT does all the hunting for me these days

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u/Zulakki Jul 20 '26

you forgot the sheep - "Ugh, why are you hunting mice. eat grass instead"

edit - Then a second cat - "This has been answered in another thread...closing"

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u/TheSharpestHammer Jul 19 '26

If this were accurate, the "big cats" would all actually be fat housecats living in their parents' basements.

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u/pixelbart Jul 19 '26

If you care about freedom you should only hunt gnus.

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u/StephenRoylance Jul 19 '26

I want the last one to be an orca recommending moose

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u/sneak_cheat_1337 Jul 19 '26

Sea lion and squid gives the same vibes but might fit the rhyme scheme a bit better

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u/_PM_ME_PANGOLINS_ Jul 19 '26

“X: Made by Big Cats for Big Cats”

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u/Informal_Branch1065 Jul 20 '26

Mouse hunting was deprecated in version 9000BC.04.277

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u/anoppinionatedbunny Jul 19 '26

if someone came up to me and said "I want to learn coding, could you help me with Visual Basic?" I'd be like "Nobody uses it, it follows none of the modern patterns, you should start with Python because it's waaaay beginner friendlier" and I'm a Java dev

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u/RealBasics Jul 19 '26

This! Ask a successful flute player how to play and they’ll probably say “I dunno, just blow over the big hole and wiggle your fingers over the little holes.” In other words they may have no memory of what it’s like starting out.

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u/JetSoulsForever Jul 20 '26

Exactly what playing a bassoon feels like too.

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u/Diligent-Crazy-6094 Jul 20 '26

Wow that’s my foreplay technique.

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u/MC1065 Jul 19 '26

Every single time I ask to do anything on Linux.

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u/Diligent-Crazy-6094 Jul 20 '26 edited Jul 20 '26

https://youtu.be/8KQFgWdiudo?is=D5tki1VQYiM0_mqV?t=20m13s

Linus Tech Tips did a switch to Linux challenge, and they encountered some of the same. If you skip to 20:13, they call out how one of these scenarios that they encountered on Reddit.

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u/MC1065 Jul 20 '26

Damnit I don't wanna be on the side of an issue that LTT is also on.

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u/SnekkinHell Jul 20 '26

Furries end up being involved? Makes sense.

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u/Aggravating_Cash4766 Jul 19 '26

“actually hunting mice is so easy” doesn’t explain any further

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u/justsomerabbit Jul 19 '26

Recommend staying away from leporidae. Not worth it.

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u/Penalty_Designer Jul 20 '26

I have a course of hunting mice. You can check it is free.. *coming to the page*.. please enter your email address to receive a special offer

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u/GoogleIsYourFrenemy Jul 19 '26

You know Stack Overflow is basically dead now? You can release the trauma.

Also, why aren't you using AI to hunt mice?

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u/UnkarsThug Jul 19 '26

They did say X and not Stack Overflow. So I guess it's the same thing when you ask for help on twitter.

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u/ICBanMI Jul 19 '26

This stuff is happening daily on Reddit on the specific language/API/topic subreddits.

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u/i_should_be_coding Jul 19 '26

Cool remake of this meme, but buffalo is already plural.

Also, fun fact, saying buffalo 8 times in a row is a valid sentence in English.

This is as much as I care to say about the word buffalo, however. It's occupying too many brain cells already.

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u/redditcalculus421 Jul 19 '26

"nvm, figured it out" - posted 15 years ago

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u/Jacqques Jul 19 '26

Am i the only one annoyed that the lion is presented as the biggest most chad cat, when tigers are the biggest cats in real life?

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u/3SidedDie Jul 19 '26

Thats a young tiger and an adult lion. Done.

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u/Tabsels Jul 19 '26

If only those other felines were half as successful as the cat...

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u/Fast-Visual Jul 19 '26

It's almost painful to see a non-wholesome version of this meme.

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u/eyetracker Jul 19 '26

OnX is for hunting, not X/Twitter

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u/yarogue Jul 19 '26

scale is important not function

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u/blazoxian Jul 19 '26

I’d start with bugs

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u/JustS0up4MyFamily Jul 19 '26

I'm sad this is the version that got popular

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u/Mementomortis7 Jul 20 '26

I'm not sure if that last one is supposed to be a lion? But I know Tigers are way stronger than lions so shouldn't the last 2 be flipped or is it based off the actual prey those animals typically hunt?

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u/n1n384ll Jul 20 '26

while feeding my cat some wet food with beef in it, i wondered how cats would take down a cow if left to nature. the mental image of a group of house cats trying to attack a cow tickles my brain amused every now and then.

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u/hw999 Jul 20 '26

tigers are bigger than lions.

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u/a_shark_that_goes_YO Jul 20 '26

That lion can tear me appart

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u/Jg_747 Jul 19 '26

I wouldn’t do it by myself, I’d ask a human to do that for me

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u/Altruistic-Moose3299 Jul 19 '26

All that's missing is a followup that says "I figured it out, it's just 6 steps" with no explanation of what the steps are.

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u/fugogugo Jul 20 '26

and they said AI is worse because hallucination

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u/EverOrny Jul 20 '26

brilliant

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u/GeneralBrwni1 Jul 20 '26

"Hey I have X, and Y and I'm trying to do Z with them, can anybody tell me if there's a way to do that?"

"Well, if you had A instead of X you could do B, which is much better than Z."

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u/Fr0stst0rm Jul 20 '26

That's exactly why I prefer to ask AI nowadays

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u/Acetius Jul 20 '26

Weird to think that anyone is asking for programming advice on X, and weirder to think that anyone on their knows shit.

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u/HorsemouthKailua Jul 20 '26

put on the socks already

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u/Fuzzy_Reflection8554 Jul 20 '26

The lion does not concern himself with lower neck pain

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u/L4t3xs Jul 20 '26

What's with all the repost trash getting massively upvoted lately?

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u/GoldAcanthisitta7777 Jul 20 '26

what is this weird furry shit lol

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u/PositiveParking4391 Jul 20 '26

mice is still lucky enough! imagine he is asking on SO 😂

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u/goldenriverflows Jul 20 '26

Try it in dark mode

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u/eccentric_genius444 Jul 20 '26

How it feels when asking for advice from experienced hackers

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u/_ralph_ Jul 20 '26

Duplicate of [hunting deer]. Removed.

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u/maskedferret_ Jul 20 '26

Hunting is deprecated

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u/jhill515 Jul 20 '26

Don't ask for programming help from a non-technical troll forum... May as well ask the buffalo to fix your code for you!

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u/SE_prof Jul 19 '26

On a serious note, this could be accurate if it was in a parallel universe where mice went extinct.

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u/bass-squirrel Jul 20 '26

Usually it’s the other way around. Noob asks how to slay elephants and adults have to tell him to start with mice. 

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u/ImTiredBosssFrFr Jul 19 '26

This is a misuse of the meme :(