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Individuals displaying mischievous, spiteful, or teasing behavior in a playful manner, rather than engaging in genuinely cruel actions.

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[–] rtxn 56 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

How this plays out in reality:

"This line at this character is giving me a syntax error... I'll just delete and rewrite it, maybe there's a stray whitespace. Oh, it runs now. Weird. Whatever."

[–] JollyTheRancher 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

While I imagine this is typically true, I once spent a couple hours on something like this.

[–] tdawg 4 points 1 year ago

spoken like someone who hasn't been bitten by codepoints before

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Or you would spot the changed line in git immediately and revert it