When you ask someone a boolean question....... and they return a string

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• dismay3915@lemmy.world ⁨24⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  This belongs to programmer humor. Don’t let us drop type theory and category theory on these poor non-programmers

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• idunnololz@lemmy.world ⁨40⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  When you ask someone an enum question and they return a boolean.

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• python@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Deep down, it’s all [Object object] anyways

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• gnufuu@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Yeah, better avoid those types

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• LeFrog@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  ELI5?

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  • Badabinski@kbin.earth ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    In programming languages, data comes in different forms. If you want to get a yes/no answer to something, there's a way to represent that: a true/false boolean. If you want to get a street address, that's a string, because it's just a big ol blob of undifferentiated text to the computer.

    The joke is about how you ask someone a yes or no question, but they respond with something which is not either of those options.

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• Kenny2999@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Unless the question is “did you buy any clothes, dear?”

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• forkDestroyer@infosec.pub ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  True it is! Mwahahahahaahah!

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  • Drekaridill@lemmy.wtf ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    “false”

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• Badabinski@kbin.earth ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  A string with length > 0 is truthy*, so we're good!

  *in python

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  • ReluctantMuskrat@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    False is true!

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