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Clock but it's SELECT Digits FROM Numbers ORDER BY DigitName DESC (lemmy.world)
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[–] Deebster@infosec.pub 19 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Shouldn't 2 be where 1 normally is, etc and 8 be at the top?

edit: I see you'd posted a similar one a few days ago and that had the same thing. Off by one, an evergreen programming error!

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah it should, I am so fucking dumb I even get my deliberate errors wrong. I can't take it any more!

(I am the OP of the image, the OP of this thread just copied them from a different programmer humor com)

[–] Deebster@infosec.pub 1 points 1 day ago

I'm happy to believe it's intentional - some metahumour (metaprogrammerhumour).

[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 11 points 1 day ago

Keep going. We may be homing in on how the number order was derived for a dartboard.

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 5 points 1 day ago

The meme is so nerdy I love it.

[–] sandwichwhiplashparrot@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

I am so mad.