Not about software, but:
Who the fuck builds brushless DC motors that do not run with PWM? 😲

Who on earth decided, that float64 is a suitable default datatype for one-hot vectors in numpy?
That's what I deserve for relying on reasonable implicit behaviour

$ sudo rm - Rf /var/cache/pacman/pkg/*
sudo: unable to execute /usr/bin/rm: Argument list too long
$ sudo bash - c "shred /usr/bin/rm & & shred /sbin/sudo"

Ten ways to fail at public key cryptography, Today:

When encrypting a file for your coworker, encrypt for your own key instead of his/hers

My Laptop's internal HDD broke. I unscrewed the cover, looked at the label and found the reason why:

The Label said "Seag_te"

When you had a meeting and simply look at your clipboard to see, where you were

I successfully PCI passed through my nvidia 970m to Bluescreen-OS on a nvidia optimus laptop.
Totally useless, if your GPU does not have any video output ٩๏̯͡๏۶

What's the point about having an HDMI output, if it neither works with the intel 530, nor with the 970m? Is it even connected? I mean, srsly, why would you do that? Best Linux support ever!!!1!!!

Thank you KDE for setting alt+F4 by default, my brother did not have tons of fun closing my eidtors and it did not take me 15 Minutes to find the setting (┛◉Д◉)┛┻━┻
Still loving Plasma nonetheless ;-)

Seagate: A reliable source of unreliable NAS Drives. Rest assured, that they're gonna fail way before everything else, so that you're warned, when your other drives may not last much longer too ◔ᴗ◔

I stopped laughing, when my NAS' external Backup Drive, a Seagate, started throwing I/O Errors ๏̯͡๏

Had to integrate legacy code into the new framework.

Me: Where does the virtual sensor come from?
Colleague: It's in the docs.
Me: That step is not in the docs.
Colleague: It is, look into the file $FILE.
Me: Yeah, it's empty :D
Colleague: Nope, it's not.
Me: See, empty (pointing to laptop screen)
Colleague: Why is it empty? (keyboard typing...) Damnit, too many git remotes in my repo :D

Just got devrant. Now I need to type in my 36 HWRNG+keepassx generated password on my phone ٩(͡๏̯ ͡๏)۶
@CIA Thx for those smilies https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/cms/...
And of course I needed to wait 1h40m to post this :D

Tech-Report has a section featuring mov instead of move.
Spot the assembly coder ;D