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Omar Rizwan . @omar,

it's interesting that for concurrent data structures i have much less trust in their baseline correctness, so if i use some random library from GitHub, i have a habit of looking up the author, figuring out their credentials and projects they've done, etc

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Ivan Reese . @spiralganglion, @mastodon.social

@omar Oh I tend to do that for every dep I take. Some mix of NIH-fueled skepticism plus a bit of morbid curiosity like "what flavour of sicko are you to have made something I'd actually be keen to use?"

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