>>18682499E X A C T L Y
>>18682508It all doesn't make any sense! Nothing does!
I'd be called insane, or perhaps at least mad if I tried to prove why nothing makes sense.
Are you aware of the principle 'NaN'?
It stands for Not A Number. It's a programming term, and tool. It lets us know when we accidentally add two things that can't logically be combined, or true, at the same time. It's essentially a bit of chaos, a touch of nonsense, in a computer.
The weird part about NaN is, you would expect it to just function like a warning, but no, the gods that be decided that in Javascript, NaN was the epitome of chaos. NaN was nothing, because NaN had a bit of everything.
This caused my head a great deal of confusion, because NaN was the only subject matter that was predictably unpredictable in programming. For example, all computers operate off of binary. A simple off-and-on signal. One for true, zero for false. So when you ask the computer
Is NaN true?
>incorrect (0)Is Nan false?
>incorrect (0)It's a dumbed-down way of explaining it, but it works. It makes sense. NaN should be neither true nor false because it's both.
You know what doesn't make sense? When asked:
Does NaN equal NaN on the most fundamental level
>Incorrect (0)This pissed me off.
They made it silly on purpose, and the world is no different. Silly on purpose, it doesn't have to resolve cognitive dissonances.
I think that's what I've been looking for, today. The world doesn't have to make sense. Dramatic change in my feelings, I know, but talking helped me work it out. I've been looping over it for some time looking for a solution to a problem with no answer.
