this post was submitted on 30 Sep 2024

468 points (98.3% liked)

Programmer Humor

19563 readers

1586 users here now

Welcome to Programmer Humor!

This is a place where you can post jokes, memes, humor, etc. related to programming!

For sharing awful code theres also Programming Horror.

Rules

Keep content in english
No advertisements
Posts must be related to programming or programmer topics

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

Feyter@programming.dev

anzo@programming.dev

BurningTurtle@programming.dev

pylapp@programming.dev

468

Swift knows something (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 month ago by sjmarf@sh.itjust.works to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

37 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] BassTurd@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I had this exact discussion within the last year. The first egg was a chicken egg. Every subsequent egg was a chicken's egg.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Until a chicken lays an egg containing something that is not quite a chicken

[–] BassTurd@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (3 children)

See, I think of the egg as being possessed by the mother, so it would still be a chicken's egg to me, but it could simultaneously be a "something else" egg.

[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 month ago

It would be a chicken's non-chicken egg

[–] Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 month ago

Do you want basilisks? Because this is how you get basilisks.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Schroedinger's egg