Memory waste Memes

OH. MY. GOD. The AUDACITY of these students using a 32-bit integer for EVERYTHING! 💀 Meanwhile, that poor 8-bit char and 16-bit short are just STANDING THERE, completely IGNORED and UNEMPLOYED! The DRAMA! The WASTE of precious memory! It's like buying a mansion just to store your socks! Those memory-efficient data types are literally BEGGING to be used, but nooooo, let's just throw 32 bits at EVERYTHING because who needs optimization when you have 16GB of RAM, right?! The 1970s programmers are ROLLING in their retirement homes right now!

The ultimate flex in programming isn't driving a Mercedes—it's using 32 bits when 1 would do just fine. Sure, booleans only need a single bit to represent true/false, but why be efficient when you can waste 31 extra bits using an integer instead? Memory optimization? In this economy? Please. We've got terabytes of RAM now. The same developers who argue over 5KB in a JavaScript library will happily burn 32x the memory for every boolean value because changing the data type now requires actual work. It's the digital equivalent of using a sledgehammer to hang a picture frame—technically works, but your walls (and your code) will never forgive you.