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[–] [email protected] 125 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (12 children)

tomatoes are fruits that are often used as vegetables and are botanically classified as berries*

*according to wikipedia and my interpretation of it

[–] TheGiantKorean 58 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Intelligence is knowing that tomatoes are a fruit. Wisdom is knowing that they don't go into a fruit salad.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Charisma is selling salsa as a tomato based fruit salad

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[–] mpa92643 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What if you soak them in high fructose corn syrup first?

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Tomatoes are only fruits in a biological sense, vegetable is a culinary term so it makes no sense to mix them up.

[–] mpa92643 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I prefer just calling everything I eat the flesh of whatever it came from. Tomato? Flesh. Lettuce? Flesh. People? Flesh.

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[–] CosmicTurtle 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

My understanding is that the term vegetable is actually a political term, meaning it is categorized as a vegetable for tax reasons.

Vegetables are taxed lower than fruits.

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[–] [email protected] 102 points 1 year ago (9 children)

The fact that this meme makes sense to anyone demonstrates how dynamic typed programming languages cause brain damage.

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[–] [email protected] 93 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I like TypeScript less for its ability to categorize my grocery list and more for its ability to stop anyone from putting cyanide on it.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I hate Typescript for promising me that nobody can put cyanide on the list, but in reality it disallows ME from putting cyanide on the list, but everyone else from the outside is still allowed to do so by using the API which is plain JavaScript again

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Honestly, programming is great for teaching you that you are the stupid one. This is still a feature.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

The main problem with JavaScript and TypeScript is that there is such a little entrybarrier to it, that way too many people use it without understanding it. The amount of times that we had major issues in production because someone doesn't understand TypeScript is not countable anymore and our project went live only 4 months ago.

For example, when you use nest.js and want to use a boolean value as a query parameter.

As an example:

@Get('valueOfMyBoolean')
@ApiQuery(
  {
    name: 'myBoolean',
    type: boolean,
  }
)
myBooleanFunction(
  @Query('myBoolean') myBoolean: boolean
){
  if(myBoolean){
    return 'myBoolean is true';
  }
  return 'myBoolean is false';
}

You see this code. You don't see anything wrong with it. The architect looks at it in code review and doesn't see anything wrong with it. But then you do a GET https://something.com/valueOfMyBoolean?myBoolean=false and you get "myBoolean is true" and if you do typeOf(myBoolean) you will see that, despite you declaring it twice, myBoolean is not a boolean but a string. But when running the unit-tests, myBoolean is a boolean.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is more a condemnation of nest.js than ts. It seems great in theory. I like the architecture and the ability to share models and interfaces between front and backend, but it's objectively makes everything more complicated. It adds layers of abstraction that should not be necessary and it's such a niche/unpopular framework for backend systems that you generally have to jump through hoops to do anything moderately complex. Not only do new devs have to learn typescript to use it, they have to learn the nest architecture to know how to do things "the right way" and you still end up in situations like this which looks perfectly valid but isn't. Typescript was never meant to be used for backend, and trying to make it do so and then complaining about it is like jogging while carrying a gun, shooting yourself in the foot, and blaming the gun.

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[–] aluminium 88 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'd say its more like the gas tank telling you that you aren't allowed to pour in brake fluid as that could lead to runtime errors.

[–] hansl 37 points 1 year ago
tank.pour(brakeFluid as Any); // do not remove this for some reason will break prod
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[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 year ago

Tomato: Any

[–] uis 38 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Biologists: but tomato is a berry, which is subset of fruits

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Also biologists: "vegetable" is purely a culinary term, and doesn't have any significance in the world of botany

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

As it happens, when we go shopping for food we have more of a culinary mindset than botanical.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (20 children)

Am I missing the joke? Tomatoes are fruits.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Intelligence is knowing Tomatoes are fruits.

Wisdom is knowing not to put them in a fruit salad.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Greek salad would like a word... the only things that aren't a fruit in Greek salad are the onions and feta.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Wisdom is knowing not to put them in a fruit salad.

A Greek salad is not a fruit salad, it is a...Greek salad.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Pragmatism is putting tomatoes with the vegetables because of taste, which is one of the most important parts of food.

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[–] ShroOmeric 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I swear to god, sometimes I really don't know what Typescript really wants from me. It's like some old god: you know it needs a sacrifice but the god is not telling you exactly what he wants. So you can only try and pray.

[–] MashedTech 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Idk, I find it pretty easy to understand

[–] herrvogel 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The "return type <5 paragraphs of various word salads> is not compatible with " error messages are anything but easy to understand in my opinion.

[–] gornius 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah I don't get why it spits out whole types instead of only differences between them. Like "function expects non-null 'some.param.in.object' of type 'string' in argument 'someArgument', which is missing in passed argument".

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

I'm a bit disappointed that nobody mentioned Rust yet.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Yeah... What?

Tomatoes are fruits.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

Guess it's not only Typescript that likes to argue with the developer while missing the entire point...

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

somewhere brodie lee just threw some papers

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[–] aeharding 9 points 1 year ago

Report -> I'm in this picture and I don't like it

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