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

REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 25 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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 1 month 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.