I Know Why But Why

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I Know Why But Why

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Oh my gosh, this is every C programmer's nightmare! 😱 C libraries screaming at thread safety is like watching Tom from Tom & Jerry discover that the cheese is actually a mousetrap! We technically know we should handle thread safety properly, but then we're like "my single-threaded prototype works fine, why would I complicate things?" Fast forward to production where mysterious bugs appear at 3 AM and suddenly we're questioning our entire career choices! The number of times I've written "// TODO: make thread-safe" and then completely forgotten about it is... well, let's just say it's a personal attack at this point! 🙈

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