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		LadyCailin on Jan 1, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Microsoft Exchange stops passing mail due to bug o... Not criticizing you, but no, it’s a string which happens to have a natural ordering. The fact that it happens to look like a number is irrelevant.

boardwaalk on Jan 1, 2022 | [–]

It’s like nothing could have multiple useful forms. Which is of course not true. This is just a dumb bug.

tyingq on Jan 1, 2022 | [–]

The idea wasn't justifying the choice, but rather trying to imagine what happened. Because they did want a way to sort and pop the highest numeric value, they made a bad choice.

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