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What are some examples of xkcd 2347? (xkcd.com)
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I've heard people mention curl and imagemagick. Any others that you know about?

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[-] falsem@kbin.social 21 points 1 year ago

A developer maintained a NodeJS package called left-pad that would add leading whitespace to strings. He unpublished the package and broke basically the entire Node ecosystem until the repo owner forcibly republished it against the author's wishes.

https://www.theregister.com/2016/03/23/npm_left_pad_chaos/

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