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Zardoz is fun if not taken seriously. 🙂

"The Man Who Would Be King" is pretty darned good. He and Michael Caine make a great pair in it.

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    TIL that the film 'Lawrence of Arabia' had its world premiere 10 years closer to the start of the Great War than to the current day.

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      sneakyimp you might not like what else ol' Zardoz has to say...

      You sound like my wife 😆

      Remember, at the end Connery comes to find out that part ain't true after all ... 😄

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        TIL that returning false works if you declare return type int:

        function foo() : int {
        return false;
}
var_dump(foo());

        the result:

        int(0)

        but returning NULL from an int function throws an exception:

        function foo() : int {
        return null;
}
var_dump(foo());

        the result:

        PHP Fatal error:  Uncaught TypeError: Return value of foo() must be of the type integer, null returned in /tmp/a.php:3
Stack trace:
#0 /tmp/a.php(5): foo()
#1 {main}
  thrown in /tmp/a.php on line 3

        sneakyimp

        You'll also get that if you try to return a non-numeric string (a numeric string would be recast).

        Also, attempting to return anything other than an int fail if you declare(strict_types=1);.

        Returning null is hazardous, and equivalent to returning nothing at all (return null; is identical in meaning to return;; if a function is supposed to return a value, return; looks wrong). If for some reason you do want nulls hanging around, you can declare the possibility as function foo(): ?int.

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          Today I learned Mira Furlan is dead, this year sucks let's go to 2022

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            TIL that the U.S. Government website for reporting online crime does not work:

             curl -v https://www.ic3.gov/complaint/default.aspx
*   Trying 65.201.175.169:443...
* TCP_NODELAY set
*   Trying 2600:803:c20::3:16:443...
* TCP_NODELAY set
* Immediate connect fail for 2600:803:c20::3:16: Network is unreachable
*   Trying 2600:803:c20::3:15:443...
* TCP_NODELAY set
* Immediate connect fail for 2600:803:c20::3:15: Network is unreachable
*   Trying 2600:803:c20::3:16:443...
* TCP_NODELAY set
* Immediate connect fail for 2600:803:c20::3:16: Network is unreachable
*   Trying 2600:803:c20::3:15:443...
* TCP_NODELAY set
* Immediate connect fail for 2600:803:c20::3:15: Network is unreachable

              Today I learned PHP filters. I really enjoy the PHP language while I am learning it.

                TIL (thanks to sneakyimp) that you can do...

                16:16 $ /usr/bin/php -a
Interactive shell

php > $😊 = 'happy';
php > echo $😊;
happy
php >

                you can define emoji classes and namespaces, too:

                class 😊 {
  public static function ☚ī¸(){
    echo "🎭\n";
  }
}
😊::☚ī¸();
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                Today I learned how to turn my old laptop into a server at home