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1. xnorsw+33[view] [source] 2025-12-05 15:47:43
>>meetpa+(OP)
My understanding, paraphrased: "In order to gradually roll out one change, we had to globally push a different configuration change, which broke everything at once".

But a more important takeaway:

> This type of code error is prevented by languages with strong type systems

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2. skywho+v5[view] [source] 2025-12-05 15:56:56
>>xnorsw+33
This is the exact same type of error that happened in their Rust code last time. Strong type systems don’t protect you from lazy programming.
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