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Re:Hyrum's Law by havermeyer on Saturday February 17, 2024 @12:34AM (#39406732)
I reviewed a CL from Hyrum at Google where he was trying to remove a `set_timeout(float)` method in favor of `set_timeout(absl::Duration)` and changed the former to delegate to the latter. It turned out that there was some special handling of inf/nan in the legacy API, despite no mention in the documentation, and his CL broke a number of tests. It was amusing to experience Hyrum's law so directly :)
Re:Hyrum's Law by NlightNFotis on Saturday February 17, 2024 @03:53AM (#39407682)
Love this! I was just reading the book and I came across this now, haha :)