• MajorHavoc@programming.dev
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      7 months ago

      I wonder too!

      I’m betting on trial and error. Probably has a mysterious comment in the code, as a warning to other.

      Source: I develop software and find these things are either deeply researched and analyzed scientific theory, or the result of guesswork and trial and error. At a ratio of about 95% and 5% respectively.