Concurrent programming Memes

The classic "it's not you, it's me" breakup line gets a multithreaded makeover! Our poor developer thought throwing mutexes and closing channels would fix their relationship problems, but they missed the fundamental truth of concurrent programming: no amount of locks can protect you from emotional deadlocks. Meanwhile, their partner is contemplating switching to the "Hawk TUAH" - which is either some obscure programming framework or proof that even in bed, developers are thinking about optimizing performance. Spoiler alert: neither mutexes nor Hawk TUAH will save this relationship from its fatal exception.

Whoever made this deserves a promotion and a psych evaluation. It's a brilliant visual pun using electrical circuit diagrams to illustrate computing concepts. Serial processing executes tasks one after another (like killers waiting their turn), while parallel processing handles multiple tasks simultaneously (killing your CPU efficiency but getting the job done faster). After 15 years of optimizing code, I still chuckle when junior devs discover threading and suddenly want to parallelize everything. Sure kid, enjoy your race conditions and deadlocks—I'll be over here with my popcorn.