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by hiAndrewQuinn 42 days ago
There is a parallel universe where the convention is that 0 is used for when something went wrong, and 1-127 are reserved for all the myriad and beautiful ways in which things went right.
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Tolstoy: "All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way"
As time goes on, I am beginning to wonder if sometimes the failure codes are good exits. Some tasks should not be done.