5% of 666 Python repos had comma typo bugs (inc V8, TensorFlow and PyTorch)

Re:5% of 666 Python repos had comma typo bugs (inc V8, Tenso... by bilalq on Friday January 07, 2022 @01:17PM (#29842622)

The whole "666" thing really threw me off. I thought it was some Python specific term or something at first glance. They open with a sentence that mentions "5% of the 666 Python open source GitHub repositories" as though there were only 666 total open source Python GH repos. Picking a number with other fun connotations or whatever to use as a sample is fine, but without setting that context, it was kind of distracting from their main content.

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Re:5% of 666 Python repos had comma typo bugs (inc V8, Tenso... by deathanatos on Friday January 07, 2022 @01:46PM (#29843026)

Did you figure out what the context is, and if you did, would you mind spelling it out for me? I still haven't figured out what correction to make to that sentence to get it to make sense.

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Re:5% of 666 Python repos had comma typo bugs (inc V8, Tenso... by rikatee on Friday January 07, 2022 @02:03PM (#29843272)

in a blog post about the evils of typos there was a typo! classic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muphry%27s_law ;)

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Re:5% of 666 Python repos had comma typo bugs (inc V8, Tenso... by ffhhj on Friday January 07, 2022 @02:53PM (#29843872)

Also this classic:

> Apple I was the first product ever announced by the company in 1976. The computer was put on sale for $666.66 at the time.

https://9to5mac.com/2021/11/25/steve-woz-signs-rare-1976-app...

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Re:5% of 666 Python repos had comma typo bugs (inc V8, Tenso... by bilalq on Friday January 07, 2022 @02:11PM (#29843394)

They ran their static analyzer over a sample of GH repos. They chose 666 as the number for their sample size. That's all.

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Re:5% of 666 Python repos had comma typo bugs (inc V8, Tenso... by dudeinjapan on Saturday January 08, 2022 @01:14AM (#29849087)

It's further evidence that the Illuminati intentionally put these typo bugs there to destabilize the global order.

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