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Asking the real questions (jlai.lu)
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[–] morgunkorn@discuss.tchncs.de 124 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (4 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

[–] neanderthal@lemmy.world 5 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

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.

[–] bravesilvernest@lemmy.ml 47 points 8 hours 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 6 points 3 hours 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 10 points 5 hours ago

shudders in NodeJS

[–] affiliate@lemmy.world 4 points 5 hours ago

they should have just used rust smh

[–] SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 5 points 8 hours ago

Yeah, this is his daughter