saw a 2nd year CS guy run a maze solver (for final exam) with 300 nested if-statements. worked about 50% of the time. so he added another 5000 nested ifs and got it up to 90%. good enough!

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I did it the other day!

I was trying to pad a base64-encoded string with the proper number of = characters to get it up to a multiple of 4 because our stupid build toolchain would explode if it wasn't.