The Potato Dilemma

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The Potato Dilemma

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The eternal struggle of budget hardware! Imagine writing code that's so inefficient it causes both exponential memory usage AND runtime simultaneously. That's not just a memory leak—that's a memory Niagara Falls. The poor developer's ancient laptop (affectionately dubbed "glorified potato") is about to melt into a hash brown while they watch helplessly as their O(n²) algorithm devours every available resource. The real question: will the machine BSOD or just spontaneously transform into french fries first?

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