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Sure. There were worse problems to. SQL injection vulnerabilities, dense functions with hundreds of lines of spaghetti code, absolutely zero test coverage on any project, etc. That’s just the easiest to show an example of and it’s also the one that made me flinch every time I saw it.

"".equals() 😨

Joined a new team and one of my first tasks was a refactor on a shared code file (Java) that was littered with data validations like if ("".equals(id) || id == null) { throw new IllegalArgumentException() }

The dev who wrote it clearly was trying to make sure the string values were populated but they apparently A) didn’t think to just put the null check first so they didnt have to write their string comparison so terribly or else didnt understand short circuiting and B) didn’t know any other null-safe way to check for an empty string, like, say StringUtils.isEmpty()

CPU temp will be my break statement.

I mean… if you want to clean up a bunch of salts you’re creating.

Yes, I know. And to maintain homeostasis, it has means to make adjustments to changes, like pH. Which means you can change the pH of some fluid in the body within reason, and it will correct this change. We are not saying anything different.

I wasn’t trying to suggest that it (alkaline water) necessarily does anything of significance. I certainly wasnt saying it has any health benefits. I was saying that, at most, adding a small bit of base to the body might make it compensate a bit. That’s it.

None of what you said contradicts what I said.

Ok. Then they’re wrong. The human body’s overall pH can vary within to a small degree with little to no effect on your health, let alone kill you. Changing the pH in small amounts, particularly in different areas like the stomach, will not typically harm the body at all. The entire purpose of some medications like antacids is to do that specifically with the stomach, for example.

You replied to me, dude. And I said more than one thing. Idk what the hell you’re claiming will kill you.

Hmm TIL

It absolutely will not. If it did, it would kill you.

Then what does that mean?

I was more of a physics nerd. Can’t say I’ve heard of such a thing.

How would a negligible change in your stomach acidity kill you? What do you think tums do?

I didnt say it would make a significant or even measurable difference. But it will technically drop your overall pH. If I drop any mass of basic material in any volume of acidic material with which it can react, there will be some net change in acidity, even if negligible.

I believe the intended purpose is to reduce the overall acidity of your body, which it will do (negligibly, maybe even immeasuably). Your stomach acid will compensate regardless, but, in doing so, it uses acidic compounds in the process to do so. Whether that is even beneficial in general is debatable at best, though likely not. But mixing in other acids does negate at least some of the alkalinity, which would defeat the entire point, if there is any effect from it.

Edit: Clarified my position a bit. I’m not suggesting that alkaline water is effective at doing anything at all, nor even that its intended purpose would be a health benefit.

No, but it does reveal a distinct lack of understanding on her her part as to what these pseudoscientific health products even are that are supposedly doing things for her. Like saying “I always drink decaf coffee and pop a shot of 5 hour energy in the morning.” “I drink skim milk with a splash of double cream.” “I love honey on my keto toast.” Like, even if it’s not enough acidity to completely negate the alkalinity, it’s literally antithetical to the supposed goal.

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But anyway, I kind of like goto too much. I find it more intuitive to just jump around and re-use parts rather than think about how to do loops without too much nesting.

Might I introduce you to functions?

Need to write a prompt to the console and get an input? That could be a function. Need to check if a character matches some option(s)? That’s could be a function. Need to run a specific conditional subroutine? That could be a function. And function names, done correctly, are their own documentation too.

You main function loop could look almost like pseudo code if you do it right.

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdbool.h>
#include <string.h>

char* prompt_for_input(const char* prompt_message) {
    char temp[100];
    printf(prompt_message);
    fgets(temp, 100, stdin);
    temp[strlen(temp)-1] = '\0';
    char* input = malloc(strlen(temp));
    strcpy(input,temp);
    return input;
}

int string_to_int(char* input) {
    return (int)strtol(input, NULL, 10);
}

int prompt_for_loop_count() {
    char *input = prompt_for_input("\nI'll loop over this many times: ");
    int loop_count = string_to_int(input);
    free(input);
    return loop_count;
}

bool prompt_to_do_again(){
    char *input = prompt_for_input("Let's do that again!\nShallow we? (y/n): ");
    bool do_again = (strcmp(input, "y") == 0 || strcmp(input, "Y") == 0);
    free(input);
    return do_again;
}

void print_and_decrement_counter(int loops_remaining) {
    do {
        printf("Current = %d\n", loops_remaining);
        loops_remaining--;
    } while (loops_remaining > 0);
}

int main() {
    bool need_to_get_loop_count = true;
    printf("Hello.");
    while(need_to_get_loop_count) {
        int loops_remaining = prompt_for_loop_count();
        print_and_decrement_counter(loops_remaining);
        need_to_get_loop_count = prompt_to_do_again();
    }
    printf("\nBye\n\n");
}

I mean that is true of basically all structures and materials. It’s just the coastline problem. How long is the coastline? Depends on the level of precision you apply and the exact time you measure. Theoretically it is infinite if you keep getting more and more granular with it. That’s not helpful or meaningful for general purposes though.