I think the real answer is "returning #f on error is and always has been a hack, compared to using a proper optional type"
Philosophical coding question. In #Racket (as with other #Scheme-based languages) it's common for procedures to return #f (false) to indicate failure. So the following one-liner is occasionally useful for simplifying code that deals with the output of such procedures:
(define (opt-map proc arg [default #f])
(if arg (proc arg) default))
But as written, this still returns #f, rather than the given default, if arg is not #f but (proc arg) is. The question is, is this a good or a bad thing?
Supposedly there are some who prefer rejection-sampling a d4, but those people don't deserve a voice in this poll
Of 24803 registered third-level domain names in the .name tld, 15079 (~61%) of these have ns01.yahoodomains.jp and ns02.yahoodomains.jp given as their nameservers, but said servers refuse all record requests for these domains (even when coming from a VPN exit point in Japan).
Wait, it's not that they have no dns records, ns1.yahoodomains.jp is explicitly refusing to answer. Maybe region-locked? Curiouser and curiouser
RT @cakesandcourage@twitter.com
a popular myth is that people who are Very Computer have computers that work. nothing could be further from the truth. the Very Computer are capable of generating much more novel and fascinating ways to make computers not fucking work and exercise this capability wantonly
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/cakesandcourage/status/1461481653059129345
Whois information being as heavily redacted as it is these days, I can't really tell if these names are all owned by some Yahoo!-subsidiary holding company or all by different people or what
I've been digging through the zone file for .name, specifically looking at third-level registrations of actual personal names, and... a tremendous majority of these (I'd estimate 85-90%) are
* Japanese names
* with Tucows as registrar
* with Yahoo! Japan as reseller and nameservers ns#.yahoodomains.jp
* and with no records besides the NS records themselves
* but which have nonetheless been continually renewed for years.
What exactly is going on? What is Yahoo! doing with all these names?