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Re:A one line code change inside iOS made me waste 5 minutes by preserves on Saturday December 23, 2023 @02:51PM (#38747496)
A great example of Hyrum’s Law in action (https://www.hyrumslaw.com/).
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Re:A one line code change inside iOS made me waste 5 minutes by phkahler on Saturday December 23, 2023 @03:04PM (#38747643)
I changed a behavior to the "more standard" one because it felt obviously right. This was a 3 line change. But the was enough backlash right there in the pull request. So I spent a couple hours remembering how to add a configuration option to keep the old way for those guys:

https://github.com/solvespace/solvespace/pull/1425

Circles get a diameter, arcs get a radius.

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