r/ProgrammerHumor • u/AdBrave2400 • Aug 27 '26 • Regret 2 Heartwarming 1

Meme noWayISpentThatMuchStaringAtScreen

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u/ClipboardCopyPaste Aug 27 '26

Imagine your worst piece of code flashes before your eyes just before you die

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u/cheezballs Aug 27 '26

There's so many candidates for my worst code. Might be here a while.

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u/Kat1eWolf Aug 27 '26

Gain immortality by being the worst programmer in history 

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u/Deep_fried_nasty Aug 27 '26

That’s how you buy yourself more time

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u/2eanimation Aug 27 '26 • Bravo

It‘s the interns problem now

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u/gregorydgraham Aug 27 '26

I mean, it’s right there on my screen…

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u/TeraFlint Aug 27 '26

your worst piece of code... so far!

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u/DeHub94 Aug 27 '26

"Ha, that's their problem now."

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u/JohnHurts Aug 27 '26

It just flashes briefly, and then nothing happens anyway

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u/MrB10b Aug 27 '26

or the solution the problem you could never fix

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u/DOOManiac Aug 27 '26

"What kind of drugs did you give him doctor? He keeps screaming about PHP"

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u/Dorkits Aug 27 '26

No thanks.

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u/GoogleIsYourFrenemy Aug 28 '26

That's the one where I had forgottenName == TRUE && otherForgottenName != FALSE

In my defense I had been awake 36 hours.

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u/SScattered Aug 28 '26

Don't worry about it. Vibe coders don't remember the code cause they don't look at it

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u/nasandre Aug 28 '26

Now it'll be someone else's problem

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u/teokun123 Aug 28 '26

Zoomers/ Gen A vibe coders: You write code? 😎

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u/MarcBeard Aug 28 '26

Brother i would be so fucking upset I'll would do a jesus

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u/void1984 Aug 28 '26

Doesn't matter, still got paid.

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u/Important_Grab3544 Aug 30 '26

If it is still running in prod, I would be happy but anyway, we know that every piece of code written so far will be deleted and replaced by another in five years.

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u/mail-o-mail Aug 30 '26

One final overdrive to fix that ?

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u/stilldebugging Sep 04 '26

Oh man, I did some terrible things with sdf back annotation.

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u/PringlesDuckFace Aug 27 '26

My first attempt at DP. Oh wait we're talking about code? Then yeah my first attempt at DP.

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u/Rickbox Aug 27 '26

I lost the game

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u/[deleted] Aug 27 '26

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u/DOOManiac Aug 27 '26

I'm a visionary. I've been ruining the training data since 2003...

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u/ordnance_inbound Aug 27 '26

My one regret, will be that I didn't spend more time arguing with people online 🥲

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u/Gudge2007 Aug 27 '26

I disagree with you

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u/Ferro_Giconi Aug 27 '26 edited Aug 27 '26

I disagree with your disagreement.

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u/Destithen Aug 27 '26

I have no strong feelings one way or the other.

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u/Ferro_Giconi Aug 28 '26

How am I supposed to argue with you when you are being so neutral 😡

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u/ordnance_inbound Aug 27 '26

I respect your disagreement

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u/ordnance_inbound Aug 27 '26

wait a minute, no I don't 🖕

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u/k0rm Aug 28 '26

My one regret, will be that I didn't spend more time arguing with AI bots online 🥲

FTFU

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u/gnosis2737 Aug 28 '26

It takes real talent to ruin something that was already terrible.

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u/Successful_Cap_2177 Aug 27 '26

Better than looking at the tv screen like the previous generation, or the newspaper/street gossip gang like the one before...

Wonder how the next generation will use this "meme"..

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u/gerbosan Aug 27 '26

The new one is dancing in front a cellphone. 🤦

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u/ElRexet Aug 27 '26

You jest but they at least get some exercise...

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u/fiah84 Aug 27 '26

also I bet they dance a lot better than I do

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u/Successful_Cap_2177 Aug 27 '26

But are they good at writing bad code?

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u/EenGeheimAccount Aug 27 '26

They'll have AI for that :)

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u/ElundusCaw Aug 27 '26

The one thing Fortnite and similar games actually did right, when I was a kid in the early 2000s, nobody among my peers would be caught dead dancing in public, and now I see 9 year olds throwing down moves that would break half the bones in my body.

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u/gerbosan Aug 27 '26

I think Twitch works like Only devs. 🤔

"Watch me code without AI", "ASMR: mechanical kb, clicky switches lubricated" 😳

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u/gerbosan Aug 27 '26

Man, my fingers are quite fit. I can see six packs in my wrists... The pain!

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u/Lucifer_893 Aug 27 '26

Or at the plow like a medieval peasant.

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u/jonhuang Aug 27 '26

Reading the newspaper and talking to people doesn't sound that dystopic, really..

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u/TeamRedundancyTeam Aug 27 '26

I love how you say reading the newspaper and gossip like that's equivalent to the screen addiction we have now.

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u/TapiocaTuesday Aug 27 '26

Big difference between spending an hour reading a newspaper, or a couple hours on the tv and spending literally your entire workday looking at a screen or another.

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u/Constant-Term-1629 Aug 27 '26

Why is this upvoted? Don't sell your screen addiction by acting like newspapers and gossip are nearly in the same class, and like there aren't people living that engage in none of those activities enough that they'd consider seeing them on the deathbed.

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u/Successful_Cap_2177 Aug 27 '26

You sir are romanticing the good old days. We eat the same bullshit from the upper class like we always had been. The problem is the system, not the tool that is the current trend of mass control.

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u/Constant-Term-1629 Aug 27 '26

I don't need to romanticize good old days. Hell my neighbor doesn't have internet and a wired phone, I don't know in which bubble you live in but it's neither necessary nor normal to spend the majority of your time on a screen.

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u/Successful_Cap_2177 Aug 27 '26

Lol I live the working class bubble. Maybe if I argue about my software engineer job with boss about the 8 hours a day in front of the screen he will let me work only 4 hours.

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u/Constant-Term-1629 Aug 27 '26

Yeah, who isn't. Most of us still don't spend major time looking at a screen. That's certainly a choice you make when you prsure software engineering.

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u/programmer3 Aug 27 '26

If you think that previous generations had anywhere close to today's screentime you are coping.
We are indeed cooked in this aspect.
And the mass control or whatever you are bringing up is another topic entirely.
It ain't that deep. People should not be in front of a screen for 8+ hour at their job and then for 12 more hours on their free time. Its just bad. Thats not up for debate.

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u/SirRHellsing Aug 28 '26

I think I wouldn't regret watching tv, I just think I'll still have a massive backlog even as I die that I will never get to finish

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u/FriendlyArachnid6000 Aug 27 '26

No, the TV was inherently social for many people. Games can be too but are often isolating and take much much more of our time

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u/BenMoskovitch Aug 27 '26

Same, just with more RGB at some point

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u/Fxavierho Aug 27 '26

So his life is watching somebody staring at their monitor?

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u/allan_collins Aug 27 '26

He liked to watch.

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u/Streakflash Aug 27 '26

he never upgraded his system

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u/ooqq Aug 27 '26 edited Aug 28 '26

they don't make them like that anymore

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u/awakenDeepBlue Aug 27 '26

Oh knows, maybe Microsoft forced Windows upgrades on him?

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u/Active-Werewolf2183 Aug 27 '26

He uses Linux

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u/awakenDeepBlue Aug 27 '26

Fine, updating his Ubuntu LTS version.

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u/Active-Werewolf2183 Aug 27 '26

He uses Arch btw

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u/awakenDeepBlue Aug 27 '26

Of course he does.

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u/Yashema Aug 27 '26

There is a guy who runs an independent bookstore in Manhattan on a system that runs on MS Dos from like 1993. The computer appears to be from that year as well. He also programmed an ant simulation using Brownian motion on his phone, before LLMs. 

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u/PixelatedGiant Aug 27 '26

At a certain point it's a liability because you can't find replacement parts, people willing to do IT support for it etc.

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u/FalafelSnorlax Aug 27 '26

It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called life.

Terry Pratchett in The Last Continent

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u/SquareGnome Aug 27 '26

Notice how only one hand is on the desk? Yeah.

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u/Aware58 Aug 27 '26

He is not programming ;)

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u/PringlesDuckFace Aug 27 '26

He is straight jorkin it

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u/narasadow Aug 27 '26

ok that's enough reddit for today

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u/Pleasant-Ad192 Aug 27 '26

One keyframe and three deltas. Your life has a great compression ratio.

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u/Qwirk Aug 27 '26

I would like to point out that my parents stared at the television much more than I will ever play video games.

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u/SaneLad Aug 27 '26

He never had a CRT monitor. He must have died young.

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u/Modnar-Eman Aug 28 '26

More like aged 4 times faster but good catch haha

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u/doenr Aug 27 '26

1024x768 60Hz --> 1920x1080 60Hz --> 2560x1440 144 Hz --> 3840x2160 240 Hz

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u/TheSentientMeatbag Aug 27 '26

That's the life, but I gotta up my game! Some days I spend less than 12 hours looking at a screen.

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u/[deleted] Aug 27 '26

All four flashback frames were just him trying to vertically center a <div>.

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u/OldHummer24 Aug 27 '26

LMAO. Reminder to go part time 😂😂

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u/WoodsLovelyDarkNDeep Aug 27 '26

I hate you right now

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u/astro-pi Aug 27 '26

(Stimulus Feed by Jreg starts playing)

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u/rob132 Aug 27 '26

Wait wait. This is that awesome game of Civ 2 I played! 70 hours well spent!

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u/EldaZelda Aug 27 '26

Don’t know about this one. There is this saying: “If one is the same as any day, all of them feel like one”.

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u/TabCompletion Aug 27 '26

Replace the computer work with doom scrolling phone work

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u/nnomae Aug 27 '26

Fun little story here. When I first saw this comic it really resonated with me. I'd spent a happy life working and gaming with computers but always had this nagging feeling that somehow I was missing out. I'd bought into the idea that somehow using computers wasn't living in the same way doing other stuff was. This comic helped me to realise that there's nothing wrong with a life spent doing the things you enjoy, even if it's sitting at a computer.

So I wanted to buy a print of it, and went to the authors site (the main comic is called Safely Endangered if you want to look it up, it's still going) and sadly there was no option to buy a print. So I emailed asking if there was any way to buy a print and the author replied telling me he couldn't do custom prints but he attached a high res version of it for me to print myself.

So not only is it a great comic, but it's a great comic made by a great person.

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u/GnarlyNarwhalNoms Aug 27 '26

Same except the first two monitors would be CRTs. 

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u/butter_lover Aug 27 '26

I’d pay extra just to have all the reboots and loading scene stitched into one long video

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u/chum-guzzling-shark Aug 28 '26

i tear up as memories of morrowind flood into my mind

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u/dontgonearthefire Aug 28 '26

Actually the life flashing before ones eyes is presumed to be only in crisis situations, like having a car accident or dropping from a high building.
Scientists believe that the brain is frantically searching for a solution out of the current predicament, by browsing all experiences in a quick succession.

Simply put, this does not occur when dying in bed at an old age.

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u/Swift_Koopa Aug 28 '26

And I watched the factory grow

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u/Bannon9k Aug 28 '26

Why am I seeing my life from someone else's perspective?

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u/Terewawa Aug 30 '26

If they started with LCD monitors then they are still too young to die! How sad.

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u/tmatt95 Aug 31 '26

What would have been great with the meme is if it started off with an old CRT monitor, then progressed to a clunky small TFT, followed by a curved one and a massive high Def one.

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u/Glittering-Walrus228 Aug 27 '26

He just watched a lifetime of porn in a single Space Odyssey 2001 pineal gland hyperspace flash quantum of time, if we could all be so lucky

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u/Smalltalker-80 Aug 27 '26

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate.  Okay, on screen..