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How Does It Keep Happening

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That moment when you're just trying to write a simple loop but somehow end up implementing cryptographic-grade randomness in C. Nobody plans to become a cryptographer, it just happens while you're debugging pointer arithmetic at 3 AM. The worst part? You'll never be able to reproduce this accidental genius again. Your code is now simultaneously terrible and brilliant—Schrödinger's algorithm.

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