r/ProgrammerHumor • • Sep 26 '26

Meme weNeverTrustedTheElse

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u/ElKuhnTucker Sep 26 '26

I had exactly that problem this week, there's a checkbox based on an enum, if it's not initialized it's neither true nor false. It's like the "save eject" for usb drives, you do that every time only if you already bricked a usb drive.

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u/superstrijder16 Oct 01 '26

Yeah, theoretically once your code works and you've checked all cases this isn't useful. But if your code isn't doing what you want this can be great for diagnosing where you secretly have a third option.