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The eternal dilemma of function design perfectly illustrated on an IQ bell curve. The low-IQ crowd (0.1%) and high-IQ geniuses (0.1%) agree: "Just add a new function." Meanwhile, the average devs (34%) in the middle are sweating bullets, desperately clinging to their sacred principle of code reuse: "NO WE SHOULD ADD ANOTHER PARAMETER AND REUSE CODE!" It's the horseshoe theory of programming - both extremes of the intelligence spectrum somehow reach the same conclusion while the "well-actually" crowd in the middle is busy creating those monstrous functions with 17 optional parameters, 9 of which are booleans. And they wonder why nobody wants to maintain their code...

The bell curve of RAM usage wisdom. At both extremes, we have the enlightened ones who brazenly keep 19 browser tabs open, living their best digital lives. Meanwhile, the average user in the middle is having an existential crisis about memory management. Chrome's appetite for RAM is legendary. Those 19 tabs aren't just tabs—they're tiny memory vampires. But the true galaxy brains know that unused RAM is wasted RAM. Your computer isn't going to thank you for saving resources it was built to use.

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