A reminder that "For sale: baby shoes, never worn" isn't the shortest horror story ever written, it's actually "Specifies a tri-state Boolean value" written by the esteemed author Microsoft
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Context: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/microsoft.office.core.msotristate
Note that there are actually 5 values, not three. Also True is -1, and the value that equals 1 isn't supported.
I just need a third reply here to say how much I appreciate the sheer simplicity and insanity of this documentation page - almost every single word provided ask more questions than it answers
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A reminder that "For sale: baby shoes, never worn" isn't the shortest horror story ever written, it's actually "Specifies a tri-state Boolean value" written by the esteemed author Microsoft .NET Documentation.
@mdiluz the troolean dates back to at least win32 though
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Context: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/microsoft.office.core.msotristate
Note that there are actually 5 values, not three. Also True is -1, and the value that equals 1 isn't supported.
@mdiluz My gateway into AI was using Claude to try to figure out MS's XML configuration files for their now deprecated Azure B2C identity provider. Their documentation is really bad.
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Context: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/microsoft.office.core.msotristate
Note that there are actually 5 values, not three. Also True is -1, and the value that equals 1 isn't supported.
@mdiluz there's only two "supported" values so how is this even a tristate boolean
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A reminder that "For sale: baby shoes, never worn" isn't the shortest horror story ever written, it's actually "Specifies a tri-state Boolean value" written by the esteemed author Microsoft .NET Documentation.
@mdiluz
"a tri-state boolean" is not a sequence of words I expected to read in my lifetime. -
I just need a third reply here to say how much I appreciate the sheer simplicity and insanity of this documentation page - almost every single word provided ask more questions than it answers
@mdiluz Whenever I seem MS's docs I'm happy I'm not programming for Windows (at least not with MS's tech). They should really get a clue from e.g. Qt how to make decent docs (although there are some rough parts even there...)
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@mdiluz there's only two "supported" values so how is this even a tristate boolean
@ratsnakegames @mdiluz Everybody knows that the three real Boolean values are True, False, and FileNotFound.
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A reminder that "For sale: baby shoes, never worn" isn't the shortest horror story ever written, it's actually "Specifies a tri-state Boolean value" written by the esteemed author Microsoft .NET Documentation.
@mdiluz Compile a Karnaugh map and you'll use three possibilities for each binary value, to optimize an output
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Context: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/microsoft.office.core.msotristate
Note that there are actually 5 values, not three. Also True is -1, and the value that equals 1 isn't supported.
@mdiluz what the fuck did I just read? The more often I look at the linked table the more I feel my brain melt
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A reminder that "For sale: baby shoes, never worn" isn't the shortest horror story ever written, it's actually "Specifies a tri-state Boolean value" written by the esteemed author Microsoft .NET Documentation.
@mdiluz
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