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.
this post was submitted on 15 Apr 2025
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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
I could see people using this unironically as a bug they can "fix" later lol
Unexpected KACA
https://github.com/hxu296/tariff/blob/main/tariff/__init__.py#L27
(caca is a slang term for poop)
(caca is a slang term for poop)
French is slang now?