The NHL banned the use of 00 as a number in the 95-96 season because they claimed their databases couldn't handle it. They still are fools because this continues to be a banned number to this day.
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(i am old) both my brother and i were number 00 in our younger hockey years. we were goalies, so we got first pick of numbers on all new teams we played on, heheheh.
some of you have never programmed in tcl and it shows
I have. I quickly learned not to.
Tk is overlooked, though. It's not pretty, and its approach is archaic, but it's one of the few GUI toolkits that Just Works on every platform I tried it on with minimum fuss.
having used swing and modern js, i still prefer tk.
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Cat type?
No, just meow.
No, i'm asking what type the cat is.
Perl!
lol I think this when I see “any”
Simply make everything an array of bytes
Remember Tcl
I fucking love tcl
The almighty
package require Expect.
The muse of automation.
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Just use enums
make everything a string then cast all data every time you want to use that data in a variable.
Kinda started using that with polars, force the scan/read schema as string, and down the road cast as the necessary type when needed. I'm calling it "just in time" data cleaning.
If it's not getting used in a mathematical function, I'm making it a string
stoi and atoi got ur back, homie