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Finally, a visual representation that my brain can process! Zero is an empty toilet paper roll that still exists and serves as a placeholder. Meanwhile, NULL is when the entire roll is missing—it's not just empty, it's gone , non-existent, undefined. The cardboard tube has left the building. This is exactly what keeps junior devs up at night. Zero is a legitimate value saying "there's nothing here, but I'm counting it." NULL screams "I refuse to acknowledge this variable's existence." And both will break your code in spectacularly different ways when you least expect it.

The eternal war between actual programmers and HTML "programmers" claims another victim! This poor soul just committed the cardinal sin of web development—calling himself an "HTML programmer" to a software engineer dad. It's like telling a chef you're also a culinary expert because you can microwave a Hot Pocket. HTML is a markup language, not a programming language—a distinction that will get you ejected from any serious developer's house faster than a syntax error in production code. Dad's 10-second countdown is basically the human equivalent of a connection timeout. No exceptions will be caught here!

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Discord literally had to implement a self-destruct feature because it was eating so much RAM that it became a liability. When your app is such a memory hog that you need to add a "restart before I crash the entire system" failsafe, maybe—just maybe—wrapping a website in Chromium wasn't the best architectural decision. The fact that 4GB is the threshold tells you everything. That's more RAM than entire operating systems used to need. But hey, at least Discord is self-aware enough to restart itself. Most Electron apps just sit there, bloated and unrepentant, slowly consuming your system resources like a digital black hole until you manually kill them. Fun fact: Each Electron app bundles its own copy of Chromium. So if you're running Discord, Slack, VS Code, and Spotify simultaneously, congratulations—you're running four separate browsers just to use what could've been native apps or actual websites.