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When RAM prices quadruple in less than a year and your entire business model is "just download more Chrome tabs," you're gonna have a bad time. Electron devs watching their apps go from "slightly bloated" to "mortgage payment" in system requirements. That sweating guy meme face says it all—they're out here shipping desktop apps that bundle an entire Chromium browser just to display a to-do list, and now users need to take out a loan to afford the RAM. For context: Electron lets you build desktop apps with web technologies, which is convenient but notoriously memory-hungry since each app basically runs its own browser instance. When RAM was cheap, nobody cared. Now? Your Slack, Discord, and VS Code are collectively eating more resources than a small data center.

Content Four engineers get into a car. The car won't start. Mechanical engineers says: "It's a broken starter". Electrical engineers says: "Dead battery". Chemical engineers says: "Impurities in the gasoline". Soft engineers says: "Hey guys, I have an idea how about we all get out of the car and get back in".

Regular scientists question why something works. Computer scientists stare blankly at their screens at 3AM wondering why their perfectly valid code refuses to run. Then it suddenly works without changing anything. Science has rules. Programming has mood swings.

Content DONT SHOOT! I AM A PROGRAMMER PROVE IT! ARRAYS START AT 1 Let's pause for a moment of silence for our fellow lua programmers

Content iscomputeron int32 iscomputeron(void) Returns 1 if the computer is on. If the computer isn't on, the value returned by this function is undefined. iscomputeronfire) double iscomputeronfire(void) Returns the temperature of the motherboard if the computer is currently on fire. Smoldering doesn't count. If the computer isn't on fire, the function returns some other value. ProdrammerHumor.io

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