Actually not funny

3 years ago by Gollum to c/programmer_humor

heartlessevil 64 points 3 years ago

Programmer: "Does that mean it's free?"

Cashier: stabs you in the face

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marcos 36 points 3 years ago

Undefined behavior can go bad quickly.

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ruffsl 17 points 3 years ago

Could go the other way though. Ask them nicely if they'd be willing to free up their heap of inventory, and if they return you a cart overflow, you know you've stumbled upon the ultimate zero day coupon.

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spaceape 6 points 3 years ago

I give money to cashier, change comes out of coin dispenser. I say "Looks like I won again!", cashier dies a little inside.

Every time.

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Malfeasant 3 points 3 years ago

Long long ago in a callcenter not too far away, I made a guy choke on his drink. As required, I asked if there was anything else he needed before I ended the call, to which he replied "the winning lottery numbers?" I said "if I had those, I wouldn't be talking to you."

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Moc 3 points 3 years ago

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ImpossibleRubiksCube 2 points 3 years ago

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kogasa 2 points 3 years ago

No, but these nulls might indicate references that previously pointed to memory that was freed.

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velxundussa 2 points 3 years ago

I worked in groceries story when I was younger.

But funily enough, it's probably one of the rare times I'd have answered "yes"!

We got a policy here where anything mislabelled under 10$ is free for the first item. Anything over 10$ gets a 10$ rebate.

My understanding is that it was put in place a while ago when stores stopped labelling individual items to keep them in check and ensure that consumers had a recourse in case of mistake.

Source: https://www.opc.gouv.qc.ca/...

NULL being "no money" by any definition, and the regular price for this probably being under 10$... well, it's probably free!

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ICastFist 1 point 3 years ago

Everything is free. The problem is avoiding the cops afterwards.

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bappity 21 points 3 years ago

can I get uhhhhh NullPointer Exception: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

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randomblock1 7 points 3 years ago

sorry we only have Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException, is that okay?

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bappity 2 points 3 years ago

that's how I like my coffee

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yum13241 1 point 3 years ago

How about

Class lol : Object
{
public static init void main (string args)
{
    virtual void A_Start()
    {
          Java.Print(args)
          break
     }
}
}

In case it's not clear, I know nothing about Java.

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lightsecond 16 points 3 years ago

!softwaregore@lemmy.world

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matti 14 points 3 years ago

When you buy these an exception is thrown.

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Speiser0 1 point 3 years ago

Real world doesn't make exceptions. So you'll get UB.

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Grandwolf319 11 points 3 years ago

It is funny, it’s just that the amount of funny is null.

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z3n0x 10 points 3 years ago

Mmh nice, nullives.

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nowitsabby 9 points 3 years ago

Item labels only do this when they're very stressed

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Jakylla 9 points 3 years ago

At least, the CSS works

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passepartout 6 points 3 years ago

null

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sbv 3 points 3 years ago

null null null

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SariEverna 3 points 3 years ago

Null null null null null? Null.

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sbv 2 points 3 years ago

Null null NULL!

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ImpossibleRubiksCube 2 points 3 years ago

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roofuskit 5 points 3 years ago

Free olives, the cost is listed as 0.

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osprior 2 points 3 years ago

null != 0

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roofuskit 1 point 3 years ago

Depends.

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andthenthreemore 5 points 3 years ago

Programming aside electric self edge labels are the future. Where I work we do paper labels for about 50 pretty small stores and use best part of 30,000 sheets of paper a week.

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Uli 3 points 3 years ago

I imagine with inflation causing an increased frequency of relabeling and relabeling costs causing an increased rate of inflation, it's only a matter of time before I become too lazy to finish this joke.

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ImpossibleRubiksCube 2 points 3 years ago

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coloredgrayscale 2 points 3 years ago

600 labels per store per week. Seems like a big chunk of the inventory changes price every week, not just some tens of articles for a temporary sale.

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andthenthreemore 2 points 3 years ago

It's more. Each a4 sheet has considerably more than 1 label on it. Most weeks there's 90-100 pages of weekly limited offer specials alone. Then every day there's large amounts of regular stock coming onto and off of special offer. Then produce is constantly being adjusted based on seasonality, the current weather (better prices on salad when it's hot etc), and to help sell through (warehouse has accepted some stock with reduced shelf life etc).

Then there's the fact the country I'm from has been experiencing food price inflation at almost 20% this year.

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Squids 1 point 3 years ago

Wait these are new for most people? They've been around for years where I live

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ImpossibleRubiksCube 1 point 3 years ago

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andthenthreemore 2 points 3 years ago

Yep. My work is rolling them out later in the year. The ones we are getting are basic colour eink, I think they can do a little red to highlight special offers. Batteries are supposed to last several years.

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ImpossibleRubiksCube 1 point 3 years ago

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ExperimentalGuy 4 points 3 years ago

Don't try to buy it unless u want the register to open a black hole when the cashier puts it in.

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snor10 4 points 3 years ago

*olives > /dev/null

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csm10495 2 points 3 years ago

Isn't NULL a macro in C for 0? So doesn't that mean these items are free?

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kamenlady 2 points 3 years ago

Null is zero in german - so this must be free, it's a german shop

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Haus 2 points 3 years ago

I'd guess, in context, it's a floating point price column that hasn't been set, and the table designer didn't specify the column to be NOT NULL.

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csm10495 2 points 3 years ago

I guess Rust would have solved the problem as well.

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coloredgrayscale 2 points 3 years ago

In a way it's still the same with more modern languages. Especially OOP, setting an object to Null is just setting the address pointer to to 0x00000000.

Hence NullPointerException / NullReferenceException or similar, depending on the language.

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ImpossibleRubiksCube 1 point 3 years ago

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oldfart 2 points 3 years ago

In a country where Null literally means zero? Awesome

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