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mikotodomo on May 5, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: I Accidentally Deleted 7TB of Videos Before Going ...

> Some of the things that might seem obvious to some might not be so for me, thanks!

> my mind thought that url would refresh itself as soon as the page variable changed

This is what I thought too when I read the code. I don't think it's obvious at all!

xmprt on May 5, 2022 [–]

That's actually surprising to me. In most languages that I've worked with, strings are immutable so the fact that url doesn't update is more obvious to me and I'd be surprised if it did update.

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