Two Weeks Without Code: A Programmer's Amnesia

Forcing your coworker to debug your spaghetti code is basically the programming equivalent of a torture chamber. That moment when they stare at your variable names like "temp1", "x2", and "idk_this_works" while their soul slowly leaves their body. The 7.5k upvotes are just fellow victims nodding in solidarity. Pure digital cruelty with a side of missing documentation. 👹

Ah, nothing says "I understand computers" like running rm -rf on localhost. For the uninitiated, 127.0.0.1 is your own machine's IP address. So our protagonist here is essentially running a dangerous delete command on his own system while pretending it's some kind of virus scan. The rm -rf command is the digital equivalent of pouring gasoline on your house and lighting a match. The "-rf" flags make it recursive and force-delete without asking questions. Basically the nuclear option of file deletion. Someone should probably tell him that running traceroute on an imaginary virus is like trying to find your car keys by following a rainbow. But hey, at least his system is now "woke-free." Just like his hard drive is now "files-free."

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Content When I randomly figure out the solution to the bug I tried to fix for hours.