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Asking the real questions (jlai.lu)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 168 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

someone tried that with their license plate, it turned out well: https://www.wired.com/story/null-license-plate-landed-one-hacker-ticket-hell/

edit: archive link

[–] [email protected] 85 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I just realized that the shitty software on the other side of the divide is casting null to ”null", which absolutely explains that issue. What a cluster

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago

Yeah, I love to rag on languages with weak typing, because of the potential for a bug, but seeing it play out in reality, directly with user input, that's certainly something else.

[–] kernelle 17 points 1 month ago

shudders in NodeJS

[–] neanderthal 28 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

He is being too nice. He needs to get a lawyer and sue that shitty company for harassment and whatever else.

ETA: The US isn't overly litigious. We are under litigious if anything.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Large corporations are overly litigious. Individuals can't afford to be litigious enough.

[–] affiliate 7 points 1 month ago

they should have just used rust smh

[–] SlopppyEngineer 7 points 1 month ago

Yeah, this is his daughter

[–] grue 3 points 1 month ago

Oh no, it gets worse:

Prank or not, Tartaro was playing with fire by going with NULL in the first place. “He had it coming,” says Christopher Null, a journalist who has written previously for WIRED about the challenges his last name presents. “All you ever get is errors and crashes and headaches.”

Archive link: https://archive.ph/o/Foe1r/https://www.wired.com/2015/11/null/