Kit Kombat

@theartofkombat

I like stuff and draw things

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Honestly just excited to be here. I'm a Hispanic, bi, non-binary, self-taught artist, burlesque dancer, and witch. I can't really list any favorite things because ND object impermanence. But I do enjoy talking to people and taking commissions when I have the energy, so drop me a line!

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Kit Kombat @theartofkombat6/11/2023, 6:21 PM

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full-quack webbed developer @Webster6/9/2023, 8:10 PM

from a cartesian perspective it's weird that "false" and "true" are the canonical programming boolean rather than "yes" and "no". we're using a concept as nebulous as truth to make execution decisions? i cannot prove that a blade of grass is real and you expect me to be the arbiter of whether "isDarkMode" is the truth? what's to stop me from becoming a god

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li (implied)@thricedotted6/9/2023, 8:20 PM

we should be using :yeah: and :unyeah: ...

amaris meta (the person) @meta6/12/2023, 2:53 PM

:yeah:

evie @ewie6/9/2023, 9:45 PM

just use "sure" and "i mean i guess not". perfect solution no faults at all

Nire Bryce @NireBryce6/9/2023, 9:53 PM

in python everything is true unless it's false or no

full-quack webbed developer @Webster6/9/2023, 10:11 PM

in javascript all values other than false, null, undefined, 0, and "" are treated as "truthy" in conditional statements, but only true is true in a strict comparison.

Nire Bryce @NireBryce6/9/2023, 10:14 PM

yeah, that has less mythological basis tho

Natalie @caravel6/9/2023, 10:46 PM

fun, only vaguely relevant fact: the Japanese language doesn't have "yes" or "no" in the same way that English and most other Indo-European languages have. instead, "hai" and "iie" are more like "correct" and "incorrect". sometimes a japanese work will (correctly) translate "hai" as "no" in a specific context and weebs who do not know this particular aspect of the language will yell about it being wrong.

@floating-eyeball-guy6/11/2023, 10:12 AM

Chinese doesn’t really have yes or no either; is/isn’t and agree/don’t agree cover many situations.

Swedish has “ja” which means yes, but also “jo” which kinda means “well actually yes” – it’s used to contradict negative statements or assumptions. “It’s not raining, is it?” “Jo.”

Liam Thomas @junkmail6/9/2023, 10:58 PM

the boring answer is that programming came out of mathematical logic where false and true is kind of referring to nebulous truth

@AndrewJPlant6/9/2023, 11:32 PM

also, they are slightly easier to spell and shorter to write. over the course of computer science history the savings to time and storage would have been incalculable.

Scribble Sheep @Scribble-Sheep6/10/2023, 2:28 AM

Technically speaking, they should be on/off, since at the deepest level, that's what they like...y'know, are, haha. But that'd prolly be confusing since you couldn't do t/f or y/n.