Schrödinger's Code: Simultaneously Broken And Working

EXCUSE ME WHILE I SCREAM INTO THE VOID! Here I am, drowning in my 4 MILLION LINES of legacy Visual Basic code—a digital dinosaur that should've been extinct with dial-up internet—while Twitter is over there having its weekly identity crisis about which programming language is hot or dead! 💀 Meanwhile, I'm just trying to keep this prehistoric monolith from collapsing like a house of cards while some tech influencer declares Rust the new messiah and JavaScript officially over for the 47th time this year. THE AUDACITY! Some of us don't have the luxury of jumping ship every time a shiny new framework gets 10 stars on GitHub!

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Dad's brutal honesty about C programming is the most accurate compiler error I've ever seen. The language itself is like a hazing ritual where segmentation faults are your new best friends and memory management feels like trying to organize a toddler's birthday party with no supervision. The confusion isn't a bug—it's the primary feature! The best part? Even veteran C programmers nod knowingly because the path from "Hello World" to pointer arithmetic is paved with existential dread and unexpected ampersands.

Ah, the eternal CS vs. Engineering rivalry. Patrick thinks he's found the perfect burn—CS majors are just programmers who run screaming at the mention of actual hardware. Meanwhile, the CS major is having an existential crisis at the mere utterance of "circuits" and "CPUs." As someone who once spent three hours debugging code only to realize my monitor wasn't plugged in properly, I feel personally attacked. Hardware is just software you can't Ctrl+Z when you break it.

Nothing triggers that dopamine rush quite like seeing "Code compiled successfully" after wrestling with bugs for three hours straight. The sweet validation that maybe—just maybe—you're not completely terrible at your job. Of course, the real thrill comes five minutes later when you realize it compiles perfectly but still doesn't actually work. But for those precious few seconds? Pure ecstasy.