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[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Failure of zero, one, infinity.

[–] anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Any programmer knows that the smallest value of infinity is 256.

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 year ago

Sounds like someone null terminates their strings or is afraid of of-by-one errors.