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Asking the real questions (jlai.lu)
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[–] SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 210 points 2 days ago (11 children)

"We call her Carrie, because of the carriage return."

You can also try to give the child NULL as middle name for additional fun.

[–] morgunkorn@discuss.tchncs.de 162 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (8 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

[–] bravesilvernest@lemmy.ml 81 points 2 days 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

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 29 points 1 day 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@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago

shudders in NodeJS

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