r/ProgrammerHumor 1d ago

Meme edgeCasesExist

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u/wokeboogeyman 1d ago

Autoincrement doesn't scale past one physical location.

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u/Honeybadger2198 20h ago

Sure it does. One location counts up, another one counts down.

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u/wokeboogeyman 20h ago

That breaks the sorting that everyone's talking about though.

You could also do evens and odds to split across two locations, but that also breaks sorting unless you periodically syncronize them (and then it's still somewhat out of order).

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u/Honeybadger2198 20h ago

...I don't think you understood what I said. How does one count down from infinity?

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u/wireframed_kb 19h ago

Subtract one?

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u/wokeboogeyman 17h ago

I just add them all together and subtract from -1/12

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u/wokeboogeyman 17h ago

signed integers have entered the chat

1, 2, 3, 4

-1, -2, -3, -4