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[-] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 12 points 4 months ago

Ironically, the worst thing I ever saw a coworker do was to change a function that accepted an Integer value between 0 and 32767 to one that accepted a Float between 0.0 and 1.0. Perfectly sensible change except that it resulted in a 120 mph knuckleball fired a foot above a 10 year old kid's head, followed by a fist fight between the client and my boss.

[-] jaybone@lemmy.world 11 points 4 months ago

That sounds like something that should have been caught by QA, integration tests or unit tests long before it was launching balls at ten year olds.

[-] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

Yes, testing the new Little League control module on a field full of Little Leaguers was not the best plan.

[-] jaybone@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

What is a little league control module?

[-] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

You push a button and it makes Little Leaguers do whatever you tell them to do. Very potent, should never be misused.

[-] skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 months ago

The Big League Control Modules are called contracts.

[-] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 months ago

yeah every engineer knows you gotta set KidHeadKnuckleballClearance waaay higher than that, it's compsci 101

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