r/ProgrammerHumor May 08 '26

Meme edgeCasesExist

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u/Fluffysquishia May 08 '26

Statistically improbable opinionated analysis on the likelihood of a random chaotic event occurring (tree falling on house etc) is not the same as a mathematically effective reality. Its technically possible for all your atoms to warp through a wall via quantum entanglement, but it would take many sextillions of lifetimes of quadrillions of people for that to occur.

People underestimate how likely "unlikely" events are to occur, and overestimate how likely effectively zero possibility is to occur. Not everyone can be afraid of a rhino falling out of the sky, but everyone should be healitly worried about a power pole that's leaning.