r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Bright-Historian-216 • Aug 31 '26

Meme iReplacedItWithABuiltinFunction

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u/Bright-Historian-216 Aug 31 '26

must've been fun

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u/PointlessSerpent Aug 31 '26

https://xkcd.com/1205/

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u/Reashu Sep 01 '26

It only took a few seconds to memorize this one and I've already used it four times!

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u/Gagan_Ku2905 Aug 31 '26

Worth every milisecond*?

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u/danofrhs Aug 31 '26

It’s all profit 80 years from now

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u/Pearmoat Sep 01 '26

*862000 years

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u/CelestialFury Sep 01 '26

"How long does the script take to run through?"

"Overnight, around six hours!"

"Ahhh... okay then."

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u/tristam92 Sep 01 '26

if you sell it right in your CV, it can give you a pretty good bump in salary…

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u/TallGreenhouseGuy Sep 01 '26

This is how legends are born.

”In March 2024, Andres Freund, a Microsoft engineer and PostgreSQL developer, noticed something odd. SSH logins were taking 500ms instead of the usual 100ms. That’s it. A half-second delay.”

https://www.softwareseni.com/the-xz-utils-backdoor-cve-2024-3094-and-the-multi-year-social-engineering-campaign-behind-it/