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[-] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year 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 1 year 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.

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 1 year ago

What is a little league control module?

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 1 year ago

The Big League Control Modules are called contracts.

[-] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

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

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