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arbitrary npm package:
Still has 7 million weekly downloads
Please mark this as NSFL.
Seriously, who the fuck starts a conversation like this, I just sat down!!
Mmm yes. Unexplained issues that have a single mention in StackOverflow five years ago, have a single reply by the author just saying "nvm I figured it out" and doesn't explain the resolution.
I've found that that comic alone has reduced the instances of this sort of thing happening. Not completely, of course, but when people figure it out, they seem much more likely to post the solution. Randall may have single-handedly improved the Internet a few points with that one comic.
Or marked as duplicate and closed but when you click the duplicate it's a different issue.
And there's a comment after closure, also from a decade ago, mentioning that this should not have been closed as a duplicate.
Like the horror of this code is wrong but the program works.
Doesn't work anymore. It stops working as soon as you notice the code has always been wrong.
Universe: whoops let me fix that.
Schrodinger's Bug
I have too many comments reading "... how did this ever work?"
Ahh, the C pointer debugging section.
an entire section on race conditions I see
There are perfectly good reasons to sacrifice a goat to your USB drivers. Don't let Reddit Atheists tell you otherwise.
"Oh come on, why the fuck, there's no possible reason this code should-- wrong variable."
Undefined Phenomena
fify
oooo cake 🎂
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