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Re:GitHub is having trouble counting things by hanspagel on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @02:56PM (#49731372)
I think they struggle with two things

1) counting

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Re:GitHub is having trouble counting things by eugenekay on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @03:01PM (#49731414)
2) cache validation

3) off-by-one errors

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Re:GitHub is having trouble counting things by kibwen on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @03:26PM (#49731703)
According to the documentation there are four things:

4) naming things

5) keeping the documentation up-to-date

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Re:GitHub is having trouble counting things by Gander5739 on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @03:13PM (#49731569)
There are solutions: https://xkcd.com/3062/
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Re:GitHub is having trouble counting things by lbanchio on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @03:25PM (#49731697)
4) naming things
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Re:GitHub is having trouble counting things by rhdunn on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @04:30PM (#49732555)
5) multithreading

4) database synchronization

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Re:GitHub is having trouble counting things by zbentley on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @06:28PM (#49733917)
Ideally written as:

5) multit

6) database synchreadinghronization

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Re:GitHub is having trouble counting things by stateoff on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @03:00PM (#49731406)
"Since we forced our engineers to agentic workflows our efficiency doubled. Just look at the numbers!"
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