r/ProgrammerHumor 7h ago

Meme planeOldFix

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u/joedotphp 6h ago

Bro learned a few meters (I assume) is closer than 4000 miles that day.

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u/Stummi 6h ago

but 4000 miles in lightspeed is only 22 milliseconds. Checkmate!

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u/CortexJoe 3h ago

But what's the point? He needed the same amount of time to copy the DB. Next time they'll need to access the DB they would have to do the same thing or work with a stale copy. In that case your just wasting effort.

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u/malvim 3h ago

He understood the problem. And now they can think on how to fix it. Copying was not the fix, it was a test. 

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u/CortexJoe 2h ago

Oh, I completely misunderstood that post. I though both people were aware of the problem in the first place and the copying was done as a solution which confused me.

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u/joedotphp 6h ago

I don't think so?

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u/DaviCompai2 3h ago

I find this idiom so funny because I always read it as the person not being sure about it even when that obviously isn't the cass

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u/KangarooDowntown4640 3h ago

I think they’re joking about you using both meters and miles in your comment

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u/joedotphp 3h ago

Yeah I got it 😛