cable management is the biggest lie ever sold to us by the tech industry, some suit somewhere decided that if you just buy one more velcro strap, one more cable sleeve, one more set of zip ties, everything will be fine and your desk will look like a battlestation from a youtube thumbnail and you'll finally feel at peace but that's not how it works, that's NEVER how it works, because the moment you finish tidying everything up, the moment you sit back and admire your clean runs and your perfectly routed ethernet and your power cables all neatly bundled together, that is the exact moment your brain decides you need a new peripheral, a new hard drive, a new monitor, SOMETHING, and suddenly there's one rogue cable flopping out the side like it owns the place, and you think okay fine i'll just tuck that one away, but then you pull one cable and three others come loose because they were load-bearing somehow, they were structurally integral to the whole system and now everything is unraveling, and you're three zip ties deep at 1am cutting open the sleeves you spent two hours putting on last weekend because you need to re-route the usb-c that's now half an inch too short, and the worst part, the WORST part, is that cables breed, i'm convinced of it, i had five cables on this desk six months ago and now i have seventeen and i don't even know what three of them do but i'm terrified to remove them in case something stops working, in case the whole setup collapses like a jenga tower held together by prayer and cable ties, and don't even get me started on the back of a rack or a patch panel because that's a different circle of hell entirely, someone before you clearly managed cables with their eyes closed and their hands tied behind their back and left you a rat's nest that takes four hours to untangle and document and re-label, and the moment you're done with THAT, someone submits a change request, a new circuit, a new switch, and now you're pulling new cables through a path that didn't exist before and your beautiful documentation is already out of date, it's already a lie, it never ends, it has never ended, cable management is not a task you complete, it's a condition you manage forever, like a chronic illness with a velcro symptom, and anyone who tells you otherwise is selling something.

based deepseek forcing competitors to cut LLM inference pricing

every week google asks me if i went to work and I say yes and they give me 23 cents

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can't believe my government is so poor they can only afford mini PCs for "supercomputers"