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Falsehoods people believe about programmers:

* Programmers believe they are handling all possible configurations of the universe when putting something into production.

* Programmers don't handle all possible configurations of the universe when putting code into production because they don't know any better.

Falsehoods people believe about the universe:

* There exists a constant.

* SI units are constant at all times or everywhere.




Falsehoods people believe about programs:

* When a new corner case appears, it is easy to adjust the program to handle it.


Falsehoods people believe about falsehoods about programmers: the stated falsehoods are actually false.




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