Madiator's CornerProduct ownership 101
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The only thing worse than that is emailing them a simple boolean question and then your phone rings.
That’s a closure
Sounds like you should respond to that with a 400 Bad Request
Id ho with
415 Unsupported Media Typeor
426 Upgrade Requiredbecause it's clearly the wrong protocolValid alternatives: 307 temp redirect to mailbox, 402 payment required to endure such pain or the classic 418. I'd go with the 418.
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What even are you?
A teapot
I might go with a 403 how dare you!
That's a good one as well. 406, absolutely not acceptable, Sir!
x402 … charge for your time.
I'm a teapot
When you aren't feeling that async energy but you still get a callback.
I didn’t even register a callback. How the hell did code start randomly executing from here?
And then in the call you end up discussing what to put in the mail for "awareness"
Also bad: When you ask XOR questions, but people think they're funny and give you OR answers instead.
Sometimes, (amongst friends who accept how thoroughly weird I am) I will actually say "XOR" when I want to make my intentions clear. It means that when they give the silly OR answer, I can jokingly chastise them for poor listening. The downside is that they relish the opportunity to give OR answers when I am not sufficiently specific in my question. I reap what I sow ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Why not both?
Personally, people tend to ask me XOR questions where the answer actually is "both"
True
"What's the error message?"
"I don't know, isn't that your job to figure out?"
"No sir/ma'am/other honorific
My job is to figure out what the error message means and how to repair it."
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.
Call your mother, she'd love a chat.
I should. We've been estranged for nearly a decade. I should just do it to be an annoying prick.
Are you sure?
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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
I feel this. I've found that a good response in those circumstances is to say "sorry, can we put a pin in this? I feel like I don't have the capacity to properly process what you're telling me right now, so I'd rather we resume this conversation at a later point. Thanks for helping me figure out [bool question] though."
It's a useful response if one genuinely is interested to learn, but not at that moment.
My relationship is the opposite. My wife asks me a boolean question but expects a string response.
I would ask my ex a boolean question and receive an tangential string.
"Have I done well?"
HTTP status: 200
HTTP data: "{'status': 'error'}"
the string:
"Yeah, no."
Or maybe "yeah, right"
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.
Sometimes.
In those cases, "there isn't a yes/no answer to your question because..."
I ask my jrs simple yes/no questions all the time.
Did you open a PR? Does it pass the CI pipeline? Did you write a test for scenario X?
I'm here to help you, but my time is unfortunately limited. If it takes half of our available time just to drag out of you where you're at we're all worse off for it.
"True"!
"1"
I wish I could say I have never seen that one...
!! "TRUE"
I'm throwing a stack trace, alright?
Fukin tru tho
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
Yes.
Jesus fuck we're doomed.
When you ask someone a linguistics question and they answer in COBOL
"Are you Kolanaki?"
"Y-E-S."
Simple javscript casting, if the string contains at least one char, it means yes ; else it means no.
The char: "0"
I think javscrpit caste the strings "0" and "false" to true, yes...
ts declare function permission(): 'allow' | 'deny' | 'always'Kash Patel when asked if trump is in the Epstein files be like
TypeError:
Type Boolean not used by Reality, please inplort module 'ImaginaryThings' to use type Boolean.
Warning: Use of module 'ImaginaryThings' may produce inconsistent results.
I was just about to say that I'd be raising an error, not returning a string.
I see you understand the code well.
That's when you just shake your head and say True, True.
So you return a list of booleans?
True
Or when you ask them to choose an index from an array and they give you their life story instead.
They're not giving you a string, but an error.
"JAVA solves this problem by ..."
“TrUE”
Boolean functions have potentially infinite return states depending on error handling
etc
Not in my functional language with no nulls :P
It still can panic/abort and deadlock/wait infinitely long on most fp languages because that's typically implied. And there isn't actually a way around that because computation almost always can fail or block indefinitely - and if you have a total language you can implement waits for billions of years, which for all practical purposes is "infinitely" long on human time scales.
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
https://youtu.be/thIRJLsnIxY
Sometimes my thoughts have bonus content. =3