Every Damntime

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Every Damntime

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Ah yes, the classic programmer paradox. You spend hours writing code, convinced it's broken because it's not producing the expected output. Then you realize with crushing disappointment that your code is working exactly as instructed - you just instructed it poorly. The computer isn't wrong; your logic was. It's like yelling at a calculator for correctly telling you that 2+2=4 when you meant to multiply.

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