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print "hello world";

or else;

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Permadeath programming, love it

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Like back in the day when the Romans would have the engineer stand underneath the bridge while it was tested.

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Sounds good, the finance, political and oil industries should adopt this practice too. Stock market crash - wall street culling time! 🥳

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Drive a single 18-Wheeler (hundreds in a day, whatever) over any ancient road or bridge you’re thinking of and you’ll see how false this statement is.

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Survivorship bias.

All the shit they made that didn’t last fell apart in 20 years, so it’s not around anymore for us to gawk at.

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That sounds interesting, I did a quick search and couldn’t find any good sources for it. Do you mind linking yours?

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It’s actually a common misconception. Here’s a good article which debunks that. TLDR there’s no true historical evidence that this ever happened.

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Russian Roulette: Programming Edition

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