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WishUnderflow (infosec.pub)

submitted 3 days ago by merari42@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

I had a visceral reaction to this because obviously the wish count should be decremented before the wish takes place.

Why? Shouldn't you decrement the limited resource the user has access to in case the thing you are doing fails?