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.
"True"!
"1"
I wish I could say I have never seen that one...
!! "True"
"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.
I was just about to say that I'd be raising an error, not returning a string.
I see you understand the code well.
I was just watching this classic video, wich is a great example of the meme
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
The server cannot or will not process the request due to something that is perceived to be a client error (e.g., malformed request syntax, invalid request message framing, or deceptive request routing).
I'm a teapot
Id ho with
415 Unsupported Media Type
or
426 Upgrade Required because it's clearly the wrong protocol
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When you aren't feeling that async energy but you still get a callback.
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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.
Sounds like a problem in the question. "Yes" is a perfectly valid response to "Do you want eggs or cheese"?
Bug in the English language. 🤣
It's a feature
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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.
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?
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."
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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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.
"Have I done well?"
HTTP status: 200 HTTP data: "{'status': 'error'}"
the string:
"Yeah, no."
Or maybe "yeah, right"
I'm throwing a stack trace, alright?
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