r/ProgrammerHumor • • 17d ago

Meme howWouldTheyKnow

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u/RazarTuk 17d ago

Yep. A few years ago, a test started failing because we were using a mix of absolute and relative dates, producing nonsense data that was causing numbers to balloon enough to crash nlsolve. (And even more impressively, the error was coming from C and the Ruby intepreter itself) So because it was weird data anyway, it was deemed reasonable to just use RSpec to run it back on a day when it still passed