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Subject: Placeholder values Path: you​!your-host​!ultron​!brain-in-a-vat​!berserker​!plovergw​!shitpost​!mjd Date: 2020-07-14T11:40:56 Newsgroup: rec.pets.dummies Message-ID: <1ce0d075314a03e0@shitpost.plover.com> Content-Type: text/shitpost Twitter says they're going to encourage their programmers to replace the term “dummy value” with “placeholder value” and now I can hardly wait for the chance to refer to someone as a “placeholder value”.