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[-] juliebean@lemm.ee 3 points 2 weeks ago

does javascript not allow you to interpret integers as booleans in a conditions directly? seems it'd be simpler to just do math.round(math.random()), which should still get you true (1) or false (0) in equal likelihood. or am i missing something?

[-] ptz@dubvee.org 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

It'll give you 1 ~= true or 0 ~= undefined, but I typically use Typescript which prefers actual booleans to boolean-ish

[-] juliebean@lemm.ee 1 points 2 weeks ago

huh. interesting. i wonder what number it's actually storing for false then?

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