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Yes, I wrote a very expensive bug. In my defense I was only seven years old at the time (www.theregister.com)

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[–] tyler@programming.dev 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

but then there wouldn't have been a 'bug' for the librarian to fix?

[–] jqubed@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

I think the fix was to put a limit on the script, just have it run a couple times, the same as it would during the day, not just keep going until it gets stopped.