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"People deliberately misuse the very mechanism that was designed to indicate successful completion, so we added another, flawed detection mechanism based on IO,
by kubb 5mo ago
"People deliberately misuse the very mechanism that was designed to indicate successful completion, so we added another, flawed detection mechanism based on IO, because there's no way they'll do the thing that they should have learned in the first year of school, and just call exit with any other argument than 0 on irregular completion".
Gosh I thought the engineering culture was bad where I work.
- roughly 5mo agoBrother, have I got bad news for you about all the places outside your door.
- ryandrake 5mo agoYea, whatever you do, don't solve the actual problem! This reminds me of solving a buffer overflow by just blindly increasing the size of the buffer until it no longer crashes.
- hackable_sand 5mo agoThe amount of problems I have handled with liberal void* is greater than I care to admit