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[–] FishFace@piefed.social 19 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 26 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

The comment:

# This code does exactly what you asked: Never change state, only fetch the state and return the difference

the code: hallucinated database table drops

[–] FishFace@piefed.social 5 points 2 weeks ago

This one I've not seen. It seems fairly ok at not going completely batshit like that. But the design, layout and comments tend to be awful. It's pretty good at solving isolated tasks though.