Schrödinger's Code: Simultaneously Broken And Working

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Schrödinger's Code: Simultaneously Broken And Working

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The eternal duality of coding: questioning reality in both failure and success. First panel: code fails, you're baffled because it should work. Second panel: code suddenly works, you're equally baffled because you changed absolutely nothing. The universe runs on spite and cosmic randomness, not logic. That feeling when your computer gaslights you harder than your ex.

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