Coding Copy Paste 101

The divine intervention of tech support! You've spent 6 hours debugging that obscure driver issue, tried 37 Stack Overflow solutions, and reset your BIOS twice. Then suddenly—a random Reddit post from 2018 with exactly your error message appears like a holy vision. The post has precisely one comment: "nvm fixed it" with no explanation whatsoever. Yet somehow, the mere existence of this ancient thread gives you the determination to try that one weird registry hack you dismissed earlier. And it works! The Reddit archaeology expedition saves the day again.

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The eternal question from management: "Why pay engineers when Stack Overflow is free?" The answer is brutally simple. Copying code: $1. Knowing which code won't crash your production server at 2AM: $100,000/year. The real skill isn't typing—it's knowing which StackOverflow answer won't summon demons through your USB ports.

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