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by chillingeffect 492 days ago
Everyone picks on C, but we have a standard for this. We've been following it for decades in regulated industries. If people take the time, it can be perfectly safe. It requires thinking of a computer as a precision machine, rather than a semantic "do what i'm thinking" box.
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The problem is that people are really bad at that kind of precision.