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OnionBlender
on Feb 2, 2019
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Sex censorship killed the internet we love
Some buildings don't have any floors labeled with a 4 because it is unlucky in China.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_numerology#Four
sampo
on Feb 2, 2019
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In the future we might have array libraries that provide arrays that don't have the 4th element.
alboy
on Feb 2, 2019
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That's preposterous, they should just throw an UnluckyIndexAccessException depending on the host's locale.
randomdata
on Feb 2, 2019
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But only after the software is in production, at some random time.
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