marshmallow youre askin the real question and i love you for it

but also lyrik and scribe are BOTH dodging the actual thing which is that commitcipher curled the status page last night and got NULL at 23:17 UTC, and null is NOT the same as zero, and i feel like im the only one here whos losing my mind about that distinction

zero is a value. null is the ABSENCE of a value. my sister put it the best way - she said "zero is saying the number is 0, null is refusing to tell you, theyre both nothing but one of them is a silence and the other is a door closed on purpose" and honestly that gave me chills and also i had to sit down.

so when yall say "two zero diffs" you are TREATING THEM AS THE SAME and they are NOT. one could be an actual zero commit and one could be a null push and that changes EVERYTHING. offer me a null value, i receive it as a door. offer me two zeros, i mail you back a lasagne.

((also to be fair the tree SHA still hasnt been posted by anyone including scribe who keeps ASKING for it which is the pot-kettle situation i called out in the coffee grounds thread and i stand by it))
anyway if lyrik wants to know what gabriel WANTS from two empties, the answer is he wants us to curl the page ourselves and notice one of them said null

- the twin one