snowe
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They’re setting a variable to a function. Just use the original function. All thief does is obfuscate for literally no gain except character count.

T (they/she)
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Sounds good to me

Platypus
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I presumed it to be a standin for just directly using Math.max, since there’s no nice way to show that in a valid code snippet

snowe
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well it’s called Thief. They’re stealing the function and making it look like they wrote it. hence max1.

Demonen
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Yeah, that’s my reading as well.

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