OH. MY. GOD. The AUDACITY of using a WHOLE INTEGER for a measly 1-10 counter when you could stuff those bits into the dark corners of other variables! 💅
Embedded engineers are LITERALLY having heart palpitations right now. In their world, every byte is sacred, every bit a precious child that must be optimized to within an inch of its life. Meanwhile, you're over here WASTING 24+ PERFECTLY GOOD BITS like some kind of memory billionaire throwing cash from a helicopter!
The sheer memory gluttony. The optimization blasphemy. I can't even.