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[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 25 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I mean, it has a 99.999%+ success rate on a large enough sample and I can live with that.

[–] dgriffith@aussie.zone 6 points 9 months ago

Nah, you've always got to check the corner cases. It's a variation on Murphy's Law - you don't encounter corner cases when you're developing a program but corner cases are 99 percent of an everyday user's interaction.