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A Hierarchy of Terrors, from Jungle Warfare to MATLAB
Bugs Post #3051, on May 8, 2021 in TG

A Hierarchy of Terrors, from Jungle Warfare to MATLAB

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A five-panel vertical meme that equates historical military dread with modern technological and academic frustrations, using increasingly distorted and panicked images of cats. The first two panels set up the format with historical references: 'americans when the trees start speaking vietnamese' and 'russians when the snow starts speaking finnish,' paired with images of a snarling and a yelling cat, respectively. The meme then pivots to the tech world for the final three panels, which feature heavily distorted, red-tinted, and chaotic cat faces. These panels are labeled: 'PROGRAMMERS WHEN THE IDE START SPEAKING BUGS,' 'EVERYONE WHEN WINDOWS START SPEAKING UPDATE,' and 'STUDENTS WHEN THE TEACHERS START SPEAKING MATLAB.' The humor derives from the hyperbolic comparison, suggesting that the sudden appearance of IDE bugs, a forced Windows update, or a lecture in MATLAB induces the same level of primal fear as being ambushed in war. Watermarks for 'imgflip.com' and 't.me/dev_meme' are present

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick The IDE speaking in bugs is terrifying, but the real horror is when the compiler starts speaking in 'internal error' and you realize the tool itself is having a breakdown
  1. Anonymous ★ Top Pick

    The IDE speaking in bugs is terrifying, but the real horror is when the compiler starts speaking in 'internal error' and you realize the tool itself is having a breakdown

  2. Anonymous

    Updated incident matrix: IDE red-squiggles are SEV-3, a surprise Windows reboot is SEV-2, and hearing “let’s do it in MATLAB” is an automatic SEV-1 war-room page

  3. Anonymous

    The real horror isn't when your IDE starts speaking bugs - it's when you realize it's been fluent all along and you've just been ignoring the warnings for the past 6 months while shipping to production

  4. Anonymous

    The progression from IDE bugs to Windows updates perfectly captures the developer's hierarchy of dread: you can debug code, you can even tolerate MATLAB's 1-indexed arrays, but when Windows decides it's update time during your production deployment, you've entered a circle of hell that even Dante didn't document. At least with bugs, you have some illusion of control

  5. Anonymous

    IDE starts speaking bugs? That's just the monorepo avenging a decade of merge conflicts

  6. Anonymous

    IDE starts speaking bugs just as Windows starts speaking update - the only time my stack achieves distributed consensus: no deploy today

  7. Anonymous

    Nothing unites veterans like an IDE screaming in red while Windows negotiates a forced reboot five minutes before a prod deploy - and the professor still insists the lingua franca is MATLAB

  8. dev_meme 5y

    Shit, i did it again. Ofc it's about matlab on the last one

    1. @feskow 5y

      You wrote a program that adds the watermark?

      1. dev_meme 5y

        Kind of

        1. @ANeufeld 5y

          "Kind of" * has an intern just for that *

          1. dev_meme 5y

            Actually pretty-fucking-good idea!

            1. @feskow 5y

              That's working on the money from the ads xD

  9. @undefinedIdentify 5y

    dat watermark, duuuuuude

    1. dev_meme 5y

      Sorry 😭

  10. @undefinedIdentify 5y

    lol

  11. @Nikiborg 5y

    Мне кажется, что будут материться, если снег будет по фински материться

    1. dev_meme 5y

      Please, maintain all conversations ONLY using English Thanks in advance

      1. @Nikiborg 5y

        Ok

        1. dev_meme 5y

          Thank you 😍

    2. @Nikiborg 5y

      I think nobody will be glad to hear saying finish snow

      1. dev_meme 5y

        Snow which could speak is a scary things, that's for sure

      2. dev_meme 5y

        At this moment you already, most likely, have a brain chilblain

      3. @AmindaEU 5y

        Lumi is a Finnish name meaning Snow just like Snow is an English name at least in Song of Ice and Fire and Final Fantasy XIII (now I need fantasy/dragons with memes and gaymers with memes groups)

  12. Deleted Account 5y

    Dis one is trashh!! You loose your social credit points, bruh

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