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yesbabyyes on March 9, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Stages of denial in encountering K

His diff was lame, I'm sure the coworker would have gone along with

  Math.max(...list);

tlb on March 9, 2020 [–]

That hack isn't guaranteed to work with long lists, since the standard allows a fixed limit on argument count. For example, in Node 12:

  > Math.max(..._.range(0, 1000000))
  Thrown:
  RangeError: Maximum call stack size exceeded

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