Only valid in PHP?
The only thing worse than that is emailing them a simple boolean question and then your phone rings.
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Similarly it also grinds my gears when I ask an enum question but they return a bool. I gave multiple options and “yes” was not one of them.
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Also bad: When you ask XOR questions, but people think they're funny and give you OR answers instead.
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"What's the error message?"
"I don't know, isn't that your job to figure out?"
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I like doing the reverse.
Like if someone asks me if I want A or B, and I'll say yes.
Logically, as long as I want one of those things, the answer is "true"
.... People hate talking to me.
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Like LLMs
At work, I have a very knowledgeable colleague who is quite the Linux nerd. I have been moved into their department and I feel like they never had the chance to share all of their accumulated knowledge with someone, so they kinda dump it onto me and every little question has the chance to become a lecture. I am very thankful for it though, because I get learn a ton but sometimes you just wanna get a bool, without learning kernel internals that are absolutely not related to the question
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My relationship is the opposite. My wife asks me a boolean question but expects a string response.
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People want a yes or no so they can generate their own hallucinated string based on it. The returned string is just trying to get ahead of that.
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"True"!
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the string:
"Yeah, no."
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Fukin tru tho
I'm throwing a stack trace, alright?
Is this why a bunch of us senior engineers have been forced into a product owner role?
Because we can somehow deal with string parsing better? Jesus fuck we're doomed
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When you ask someone a linguistics question and they answer in COBOL
Simple javscript casting, if the string contains at least one char, it means yes ; else it means no.
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"Are you Kolanaki?"
"Y-E-S."
TypeError:
Type Boolean not used by Reality, please inplort module 'ImaginaryThings' to use type Boolean.
Warning: Use of module 'ImaginaryThings' may produce inconsistent results.
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Kash Patel when asked if trump is in the Epstein files be like
declare function permission(): 'allow' | 'deny' | 'always'
That's when you just shake your head and say True, True.
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Or when you ask them to choose an index from an array and they give you their life story instead.
“TrUE”
"JAVA solves this problem by ..."
- RIT in the fall, 2001
Boolean functions have potentially infinite return states depending on error handling
- True
- False
- NA
- NULL
- Error1 "You done messed up."
- Error2 "You done messed up differently. But again."
- Error3 "My tender bosom heaves in anguish"
etc
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They're not giving you a string, but an error.
2010 arse meme
true || response == "true" 🤣
It’s just being enumerated!
Ah, so you know my ex
I was just watching this classic video, wich is a great example of the meme
Sometimes my thoughts have bonus content. =3
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