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Re:Hyrum's Law by hn_go_brrrrr on Friday October 21, 2022 @04:20AM (#33285788)
There are different degrees of "pay attention". You should consider how Hyrum's Law affects your development; that is, feel free to change that hash function but be aware it's going to break someone.

What I think you mean is: don't live in fear of Hyrum's Law.

Re:Hyrum's Law by pencilguin on Friday October 21, 2022 @04:44AM (#33285959)
Yes. The law says that something will depend on incidentals, not that changing such incidentals is wrong.
Re:Hyrum's Law by UncleMeat on Friday October 21, 2022 @10:52AM (#33288603)
In fact, Hyrum Wright and Titus Winters (the person who named Hyrum’s Law) both spend a large amount of their time specifically upgrading through Hyrum’s Law examples.