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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Once the code has given into the temptation, every generation must bear the cost of those sins.

Yeah, I hear you on being handed the legacy base where someone in days of yore gave into the global temptation. Trying to refactor that kind of thing can take forever and it's often very brittle.