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[–] felbane@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It's all fun and games until you go remove it from the code your new quirky junior programmer checked in, and now production is dead because the artificial delay just happened to avoid some weird nearly-untraceable race condition.

https://xkcd.com/1172/