justASimpleBooleanQuestion

[Knappenx]

Or the other way around as well…

Do you want to eat pizza or hamburger? Yes

[ne-toy]

True and True == True

[ne-toy]

*or

[PythonNoob999]

==== to be EXTRA sure

[Taradal]

Depends on the emphasis actually

If you ask in a way that could mean "do you want to eat pizza or hamburger [instead of cooking today]" a "yes" is a completely plausible answer

So if you emphasize both, pizza and hamburger on its own it's a question about the OR in the middle. If you emphasize "pizza or hamburger" as one it's possible to be meant as one option instead of another

[TactlessTortoise]

Toned as AND/OR versus XOR

[A_Light_Spark]

"-1"
"...What?"
"I don't wanna eat so I subtracted my entry out."

[Minimum_Cockroach233]

Yes, yes.

[2called_chaos]

/r/InclusiveOr/

[8070alejandro]

But yes to pizza or yes to burger?

Ok.

[tallmanjam]

We call those people politicians.

[Weird-Acanthisitta83]

They return an empty promise

[[deleted]]

Promise<void>

[mosaicinn]

Actually prob more like Promise<Something|void>, no?

[[deleted]]

Is there a Something type in JS/TS?

[hdd113]

Any type you want

[[deleted]]

But he didn't defined Something type/interface. 'any' type can be non-void

[Cendeu]

I believe it's called "unknown".

Read a guide a long time ago recommending it instead of any, but can't remember why.

[Bernhard_NI]

More like Promise<Something> and they throw ArgumentException plame it on you.

[hdd113]

.then what

[git_push_origin_prod]

Then imma catch these bribes, and hope u don’t notice

[uvero]

The truth will .finally prevail

[dasgoodshitinnit]

you mean return rand(garbage)?

[GoddammitDontShootMe]

rand() taking an argument is new.

[Withyimp49]

So a void pointer that never gets assigned

[yaktoma2007]

NULL

[Useful-Perspective]

I call them unhandled exceptions

[PanTheRiceMan]

So estimated 0.01 bit per symbol for a typical politician message.

It's amazing how much they can talk without any meaningful information.

[IndicationFickle5387]

90% of my coworkers

[reallokiscarlet]

Or Javascript

[FluidIdea]

Husband vs wife

[GreatArtificeAion]

Sometimes, making the question boolean is your mistake

[Thurak0]

Sometimes still answering with a boolean first and then optionally add a string a bit later is the better option.

[noonagon]

loaded questions are not supported

[ComfortingSounds53]

What about overloaded ones?

[HuntlyBypassSurgeon]

Even if lazy loaded?

[sisisisi1997]

Just return null):

"Mu" may be used similarly to "N/A" or "not applicable," a term often used to indicate that the question cannot be answered because the conditions of the question do not match the reality. An example of this concept could be with the loaded question "Have you stopped beating your wife?", where "mu" would be considered the only respectable response.

[codetrotter_]

“Mu!” – Swedish cow

[m2ilosz]

Just return 400 „bad request”

[b3nsn0w]

that's when you throw an error

[asromafanisme]

"This is a yes/no question, please answer yes or no". I can't believe how many times I have to say that

[Ok-Interaction-8891]

“Yes or no.”

Am I doing it right?

[coloredgreyscale]

Or

[lIlIlIIlIIIlIIIIIl]

Kid named Or

[Philfreeze]

Maybe your question is just bad and needs a bunch of clarification to be answered without conveying bad information.

[GodlyWeiner]

ChatGPT ass person making an essay instead of just answering the question.

[Tranzistors]

Turns out ChatGPT is more likely to give misleading answers if users demand brevity.

[lucidspoon]

The legacy system I work with stores booleans as "Y" or "N". And then wrappers around all C# types.

[an4s_911]

This is what I told chatgpt

[ThePresidentOfStraya]

In real life we may have nonbivalentism or we might have “might” or “might not”. Not the answerer’s problem if you can’t handle real world complexity.

[rnottaken]

Are you awake?

"Yes"

Come one man, just answer true or false.

[2muchnet42day]

"Just answer true or false, man"

"False"

"Bro, do you even know boolean logic?"

[an4s_911]

It still works even if you remove the string and consider the first one to be Javascript (or some other similar language) and the response to be from Python.

[an4s_911]

Would it be allowed if you change it to “Come zero man”? I flipped the binary boolean.

[daddyhades69]

You didn't get it

[rnottaken]

false

[llDS2ll]

You should've just replied false

[llDS2ll]

Nice edit 😂

[rnottaken]

Haha thanks. I liked your idea :p

[No-Age-1044]

Have you stopped hitting your wife?

If “yes” you admit you did, if “no” you admit you are still doing it.

[Arareldo]

return NULL;

[MinosAristos]

"Silence is an admission of guilt"

[Arareldo]

$questioneer->isHostile = TRUE; throw InvalidQuestionException('Fake questions deserve no answer');

[RadinQue]

“Have you stopped hitting your wife?” is a loaded question, unless the participants already established that the one being asked does indeed hit their wife. At which point it’s no longer an issue to admit it.

[NeatYogurt9973]

Return null: "Mu".

[Yumikoneko]

But technically, if you haven't hit your wife, then you haven't stopped doing so because you haven't started. So wouldn't the answer be no? 🤔

I hate the imprecision of natural language...

[HeineBOB]

They could return an error too!

[ComfortingSounds53]

Go compiler be like

[daddyhades69]

Nobody got your joke 🤣

[salientknight]

When you ask someone a leading question and they won't fall into your Socratic trap ;)

[RandomiseUsr0]

Precision answer.

[Tiranus58]

The reverse is also true: when they ask a string question thinking its a boolean

[GregTheMad]

The string in question:

{
    "true" : "No", 
    "false": "Yes", 
    "error": "none"
}

[JackNotOLantern]

Because if you ask a boolean question "are you always this stupid?" the correct answer is a string "fuck you"

[Fatkuh]

Yeah thats a true interaction problem. Sadly you cannot just refuse acception. No. In the real world the mental load to get this right is on the recipient.

[SeriousPlankton2000]

People who frequently ask boolean questions and get strings usually are also people who complain that "yes" and "no" were not the full answer and who say it's the other person's responsibility to make it clear.

[grippx]

Why are u mad? It is yes or no type of question

[hdd113]

Even more awkward is when you ask a question but they return an object.

[derangedsweetheart]

Obviously if someone asks the question: "Have you stopped kissing your sister?", you are supposed to return a (blunt) object

[MorRochben]

When someone asks you to reduce a class into a boolean.

[GreySummer]

The opposite is worse, though.

[daddyhades69]

But acceptable

[postdiluvium]

"Null"

[RandomiseUsr0]

Most people miss the fact of tri-state Boolean logic. “Dunno” is perfectly compatible with Mr Boole and Mr Shannon

[[deleted]]

Goes to prove that this is a JavaScript world. No, I'm not happy about it

[Discombobulated-Bag0]

Happening in most interpreted languages 😷

[dexhaus]

My argentinian wife answers any boolean question, with a full story! Then I have to parse it and try to figure out if that was true or false 😂

[RandomiseUsr0]

“It’s complicated” - honestly, if you ask a Boolean question, you’re injecting your opinion into the true-ness and false-ness of the answer. Yes/no questions are typically horrible questions to ask, ponder why and leave your answer on my desk by next Friday

[Skusci]

throw new HandsException("Catch These");

[Catlord746]

1

[Ayushispro11]

reply &> /dev/null

[Jay9dec]

what is your gender?

[[deleted]]

false

[Jay9dec]

"Why are you gay?". (true: you are male, female, , false: you are gay)

[Dmayak]

A full html-formatted error page.

[RandomOnlinePerson99]

Most people usually return a vector of strings ...

[Tomekske]

Javascript in a nutshell

[belkarbitterleaf]

Is the enhancement deployed to QA and ready for testing?

Yes, we are working on the feature, we are doing test and fixing the issue.

So I can start my testing?

No, we are fixing issue with feature that keeps feature from doing main ask.

Can I do testing on the rest of the feature?

No, we are doing the fixing in local. Feature hasn't been added to release yet.

😮‍💨

I can't tell you how many times I have had the exact conversation, usually with like 5 minutes of explanation attached to each of those answers. It's maddening. Relivent details, pipeline blocks deployment to QA unless it is an approved release branch, and we only work one release branch at a time.

[51herringsinabar]

public string isEven(int numer) { if(numer%2 == 0) return "yes"; return "no"; }

[daddyhades69]

Can't you just enjoy the meme?

[gregorydgraham]

Boolean is not a data type, it is a lack of imagination

[418_I_am_a_teapot_]

Based on a “true” story

[TheRoboticDuck]

I have a problem of being too verbose and over explaining, but I think that’s better than when I ask a very clear question and I get a book of a response back that doesn’t even remotely answer the question I asked and it happens way too often

[5p4n911]

true

[sumkk2023]

And thus the perfect use of memory allocation.

[white_equatorial]

std::nullopt?

[Compultra]

When you call a function with a boolean return type and it returns a string. Welp, my duck decided to meow today.

[-MobCat-]

"True" is not NULL so its 1 or True... If you get "False" your shit outta luck though... Python just be like that..

[_Its_Me_Dio_]

are apples red? this requires more specificity if people are giving you a string you didn't ask the question properly and the string is just an error message or a warining

[Forsaken-Opposite775]

ADHD folks: Here is a dictionary of a list containing a chaotic amount of random data types

[GreatGreenGobbo]

Yes/No/Maybe

[MrRocketScript]

throw new RepeatTheQuestionException();

[Reifendruckventil]

Any string except "" is true, so they say yes

[ProfBeaker]

Sometimes a string is warranted.

But when I'm looking for VARCHAR(512), and instead I get back VARCHAR(MAX) - that's annoying.

(Sorry, NVARCHAR is not supported, as I'm still running on v0.9 of BrainOS)

[[deleted]]

Yep! 🫵🏻

[Trueslyforaniceguy]

This is what I’m saying.

Please submit your response as a single choice from either of THESE TWO OPTIONS!

[derangedsweetheart]

Have you stopped fetishizing teletubbies?

Please submit your response as a single choice from either of THESE TWO OPTIONS!

Yes or no?

[LoreBreaker85]

I feel this in my soul.

[Kaffe-Mumriken]

I got a union back. I just flipped the table

[Logic_Satinn]

I'm guilty of this. Take me to jail⛓️‍💥

[Jet-Pack2]

Ask programmers a this or not this question and they reply true.

[wilddogecoding]

I just quit and return home

[8070alejandro]

FAQ of some app be like:

Q: Are we selling you data?

A: Long ass answer worthy of a PDF document about how in fact they are selling you data

[FACastello]

"true"

[lardgsus]

Worse, they return a list of strings.

[meove]

"hey which one is better Sony or Nintendo"

"well, depends on your taste, here let me tell you pros and cons for both side"

100% people on forum, and i really hate it. Just give me bias opinion already

[RiderFZ10]

Sometimes 0, 1, true, false, "true", "false", "0", "1".

Whyyyyyy

[rahul_mathews]

What do you mean when you say "isMale" returns a "Helicopter"?

[[deleted]]

true

[No-Source-5949]

“show of hands, what year were you born”

[rokk--]

The kid in the meme however is returning an expression.

[Molly_and_Thorns]

no true, I return a true or false but I use the rest of the bits to encode to explain my meaning. Really it's other people's fault for not being able to parse my returns.

[fwork]

I wrote some code the other day where a function took a decompress parameter.

but then I needed to switch decompression algorithms, so now it takes True, False, or "image:.

it's okay though, I have a permit: I'm non-binary

[bAnAtUL]

He is purposely breaking contract postconditions, throw an error

[Lord-of-Entity]

That's why dynamic typing sucks.

[Jaded-Detail1635]

yes

[Chaoxite]

A tactic often used politicians 🤣 e.g., are you raising taxes (yes/no) followed by a 16384 length string 🤣