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altmanaltmantoday at 4:02 AM0 repliesview on HN

I would agree its a cliche but the intention here definitely isn't to be condescending. There's literally an image of the actual cpu below it - the rock thing is more of a metaphor and as any good metaphors, they can get tiring if you hear them a lot as you might do as someone working in the domain.