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Re:4B If Statements by jiggawatts on Thursday December 28, 2023 @02:22AM (#38790929)
I wouldn’t be surprised if there isn’t at least one thing this insane at some FAANG.

“We’ve got to scale the maths engine cluster to handle the load!”

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Re:4B If Statements by rplnt on Thursday December 28, 2023 @02:39AM (#38791020)
I mean, there's this

https://www.npmjs.com/package/is-even

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Re:4B If Statements by vegardlarsen on Thursday December 28, 2023 @02:59AM (#38791107)
The actual implementation of this package is even better.

https://github.com/i-voted-for-trump/is-even/blob/master/ind...

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Re:4B If Statements by tarruda on Thursday December 28, 2023 @03:04AM (#38791137)
What is even better is the fact that it has 200k weekly downloads. I thought this was supposed to be a troll package.
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Re:4B If Statements by doikor on Thursday December 28, 2023 @03:24AM (#38791253)
It is a troll package. Just a successful one.
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Re:4B If Statements by whaleofatw2022 on Thursday December 28, 2023 @11:04AM (#38794789)
Don't fall for the salesman's "it was a joke" play.

Is-thirteen, now THAT is a troll package.

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Re:4B If Statements by chupapimunyenyo on Thursday December 28, 2023 @01:03PM (#38796354)
But why do people use this? Is this a dependency in some popular library?
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Re:4B If Statements by madarcho on Thursday December 28, 2023 @03:02AM (#38791123)
Well worth a quick trip to the source to see how it's implemented. After all, how would the author get around to packaging 4B if statements, like the OP?
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Re:4B If Statements by ezconnect on Thursday December 28, 2023 @03:35AM (#38791325)
He could package it to the size limit and range the numbers it could detect. Add a note to download particular package if the number is out of range of the package and that package is not installed.
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Re:4B If Statements by rplnt on Thursday December 28, 2023 @01:15PM (#38796511)
One package should probably handle range of one million. Now it's just 4000 packages to install. You wouldn't even notice that in an average js project.
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