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[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 weeks ago

Has anybody else noticed that in practice, shit tons of stuff uses a subtly wrong code?

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Why would 418 ever be used?

Also 425, mood.

[–] Dekkia@this.doesnotcut.it 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

418 comes from an April fools' joke published as RFC7168.

I've used it for debugging before because it stands out and is generally suported.

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 weeks ago

I once returned it in a home assignment in case true == false and added a comment that it's cosmic radiation induced bit flip detection.

I got the job.

[–] drkt@scribe.disroot.org 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

http cat
look inside
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[–] staircase@programming.dev 1 points 2 weeks ago