Run It Again: The Most Scientific Debugging Method

The eternal battle: ignoring your girlfriend vs ignoring IDE warnings. The guy with a noose around his neck saying "First time?" perfectly captures how developers have been cheerfully dismissing those red squiggly lines since the dawn of coding. Sure, your relationship might be in danger, but have you seen the 47 deprecated method warnings that you're pretending don't exist? That code's been running in production for years—clearly those warnings are just suggestions!

Content STOP USING FLOATS BINARY DATA WAS NOT SUPPOSED TO HAVE DECIMAL PARTS YEARS OF COMPILER DEVELOPMENT yet NO REAL-WORLD USE FOUND for anything other than char and int Wanted to use decimal numbers anyway for a laugh? We had a tool for that: It was called FIXED-POINT ARITHMETIC 'x can be FALSE', ' is a number', 'the sum of t and is 0.30000000004'-statements dreamt up by the utterly Deranged LOOK at what Floating-Point Numbers have been demanding your Respect for all this time, with all the circuits and data types we built for them (This is REAL Floating-Point Arithmetic, done by REAL computers): fld TBYTE PT rdi X2 number 0.5F; fyl2xp1 fdecstp number; fld st(0) fstp TBYTE PTR rdi i ( long ) y; fld TBYTE PR Ersil 05f3759df - ( i 1 ); fstp OWORD PTR rsp16 movsd (float ) Si; xmmO, QWORD PTR rsp16 V y (threehalfs - (2 y y ) ); ucomisd xmm1. xmmO sign exponent (8 bits) significand (23 bits) 01000100000000000000000000 0.15625 30 23 22 (bit index) "Hello, I want to know if f is a real number and less than -1 please?' 'Sure, that'll be f!f?0: -10.fff-1.f0?0:-1.ff' They have played us for absolute fools

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The eternal optimism-to-despair pipeline of debugging. At 9 AM, we're all sunshine and confidence: "Just a quick fix, I'll be done before coffee gets cold!" Fast forward 14 hours, and you're still there, soul crushed, wondering why you didn't become a farmer instead. The best part? Tomorrow you'll do it all again with the same delusional enthusiasm. That "easy bug" is like quicksand - the more you struggle, the deeper you sink into Stack Overflow threads from 2011.

That moment when you skip QA because "it worked on my machine" and suddenly millions of people can't make calls. Classic Friday deployment energy right there. Some developer is definitely updating their resume while the CTO explains to the board why a single untested commit took down a nationwide network. Remember kids, this is why we have staging environments and don't push to production at 4:45pm on a Friday.

Left side: Mythical unicorn developer writing perfect code while jamming to music, solving problems methodically, and creating crash-proof software. Right side: The brutal reality where we're all just angry devs screaming profanities at our screens, wondering how the exact same code that worked yesterday is now throwing 47 new errors. The "vibe coding" side is basically programming in its natural habitat—complete with existential dread, keyboard abuse, and that special moment when you fix a bug by changing absolutely nothing. Just rerunning the same code and suddenly it works. Magic!