When Your Code Is Too Efficient For Your Own Good

After 15 years in tech, I can confirm this pie chart is scientifically accurate. The blue slice representing "restart whatever isn't working" is basically our industry's version of percussive maintenance. That "IT placebo effect" is real too—walk into a room and suddenly the printer that's been jamming for 3 days works flawlessly. Users look at you like you're a wizard, but really you just interrupted whatever cosmic force was enjoying their suffering. And let's be honest, that quick Google search is just us typing "why the hell is [software] doing [weird thing]" and hoping someone on Stack Overflow had the same existential crisis.

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Content When you just declared a variable and the IDE is already complaining about how you haven't used it anywhere: We get there when we get there!

Content WHY DIDTHE PROGRAMMER QUIT HIS JOB BECAUSE HE DIDN'T GET ARRAYS.