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Content The original it's a feature not a bug

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A classic joke structure derailed by concurrent programming nightmares. The "race condition" punchline is pure gold because it demonstrates exactly what happens in multi-threaded code when two processes compete for the same resource without proper synchronization. The joke's timing gets completely mangled - just like your carefully crafted code in production when race conditions strike. And then "Ray" shows up uninvited, like that random value that somehow got assigned when you weren't looking. Your debugging session starts now.

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Content The Giant bug I still don't want to fix Me Fixing a typo in the README

Content How I Feel Complete the sentences to show how you feel about bugs. Bugs make me feel i When tsee a bug, Isay nOt h I. Complete the picture to show an expression you might make when you see a bug.