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'''[[Dankblog|dankblog!]] 2021-02-20, 2307 EST, at [[Viewpoint|the danktower]]'''

[[GitHub]] user [https://github.com/ton ton] did the noble service of filing [[Notcurses]] bug [https://github.com/dankamongmen/notcurses/issues/1314 #1314] about a month ago (please, please, please file bugs when you encounter problems in my software), and i "fixed" it about a week later. i was uncomfortable with my solution, and i bet you know that shitty feeling. your reasoning about the issue doesn't even convince yourself...doesn't even seem ''plausible'' really. the applied change doesn't clearly rectify a wrong; perhaps you can't explain how, exactly, it has anything to do with the observed problems. perhaps you dress this up with a comment, a prolix row or two full of guarded conjecture, stressing that you've arranged things just this way because "maybe this other way causes this problem...". such a comment can only be necessary because a reasonable, even an informed person could at any point naturally change the code back, since after all, this thing here couldn't affect that thing over there (the irony of software engineering is that such a change might well happen anyway, doubly invalidating your cowardly, mealymouthed comment, which will be left in place to confuse the fuck out of whatever unhappy soul next reads the code, struggling for semantic consonance).

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			'''[[Dankblog\|dankblog!]] 2021-02-20, 2307 EST, at [[Viewpoint\|the danktower]]'''

	[[GitHub]] user [https://github.com/ton ton] did the noble service of filing [[Notcurses]] bug [https://github.com/dankamongmen/notcurses/issues/1314 #1314] about a month ago (please, please, please file bugs when you encounter problems in my software), and i "fixed" it about a week later. i was uncomfortable with my solution, and i bet you know that shitty feeling. your reasoning about the issue doesn't even convince yourself...doesn't even seem ''plausible'' really. the applied change doesn't clearly rectify a wrong; perhaps you can't explain how, exactly, it has anything to do with the observed problems. perhaps you dress this up with a comment, a prolix row or two full of guarded conjecture, stressing that you've arranged things just this way because "maybe this other way causes this problem...". such a comment can only be necessary because a reasonable, even an informed person could at any point naturally change the code back, since after all, this thing here couldn't affect that thing over there (the irony of software engineering is that such a change might well happen anyway, doubly invalidating your cowardly, mealymouthed comment, which will be left in place to confuse the fuck out of whatever unhappy soul next reads the code, struggling for semantic consonance).		[[GitHub]] user [https://github.com/ton ton] did the noble service of filing [[Notcurses]] bug [https://github.com/dankamongmen/notcurses/issues/1314 #1314] about a month ago (please, please, please file bugs when you encounter problems in my software), and i "fixed" it about a week later. i was uncomfortable with my solution, and i bet you know that shitty feeling. your reasoning about the issue doesn't even convince yourself...doesn't even seem ''plausible'' really. the applied change doesn't clearly rectify a wrong; perhaps you can't explain how, exactly, it has anything to do with the observed problems. perhaps you dress this up with a comment, a prolix row or two full of guarded conjecture, stressing that you've arranged things just this way because "maybe this other way causes this problem...". such a comment can only be necessary because a reasonable, even an informed person could at any point naturally change the code back, since after all, this thing here couldn't affect that thing over there (the irony of software engineering is that such a change might well happen anyway, doubly invalidating your cowardly, mealymouthed comment, which will be left in place to confuse the fuck out of whatever unhappy soul next reads the code, struggling for semantic consonance).

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