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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago

Please rewrite to node and make it mandatory. Also make it inverse proportional to how big the package is to punish stuff like leftpad

/s, but only partially

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I could see people using this unironically as a bug they can "fix" later lol

[–] [email protected] 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/

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago