Only valid in PHP?
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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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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They're not giving you a string, but an error.
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)_/¯
Personally, people tend to ask me XOR questions where the answer actually is "both"
Why not both?
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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.
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.
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.
Like LLMs
"True"!
"1"
I wish I could say I have never seen that one...
!! "True"
the string:
"Yeah, no."
Or maybe "yeah, right"
"Have I done well?"
HTTP status: 200 HTTP data: "{'status': 'error'}"
"Are you Kolanaki?"
"Y-E-S."
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.
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.
Kash Patel when asked if trump is in the Epstein files be like
2010 arse meme
declare function permission(): 'allow' | 'deny' | 'always'
Or when you ask them to choose an index from an array and they give you their life story instead.
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