You're a "real programmer" as soon as you program, and if you're in TNB, you're probably a better programmer than a lot of people

@Ginger oooh do i get to pick mine?

Polymorphism is pretty abstract and a bit hard to apply in real situations. But generally it's advised to use polymorphism over conditionals whenever possible, even in functional programing

@RubenVerg sure, you've got plenty of options

@mousetail Not necessarily, the set of real programmers can be a finite or countably infinite subset of the reals (which makes sense, otherwise we'd get real housewives and Real Donald Trump in that set)

I would watch a series with a uncountably infinite number of characters. (@netflix please hire me)

Welcome back to season sqrt(3)

the Real Housewives of Hilbert Hotel

Only a subset of the real programmers out there are rational

hang on I just remembered a message from, like, a year ago that I could make a joke about

@Ginger i would like to be the dottie number please (the solution to $\cos(x) = x$)

something something scala programmers

@RydwolfPrograms An infinitesimal small proportion of them

@RydwolfPrograms he was only a year and a half early :p

I think that took longer to send than normal

Maybe it had to do a DB lookup for a late reply and something slowed that down

cache miss?

Oh yeah maybe they use an in-RAM memory store for most of recent history? But late replies are still usually faster

And I don't think chat's that smart :p

might be a default config thing

and it wasn't super slow, maybe half a second longer than normal