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minus-square@ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglish2•5 days agoI read an article once about a guy who got a NO PLATE licence plate and ended up being automatically blamed whenever a cop wrote in that a car had no licence plate. I wonder what 0X00000 would do.
minus-square@ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglish1•4 days agoI think that’s what I was actually thinking of but I mixed it up.
minus-square@xthexder@l.sw0.comlinkfedilinkEnglish2•edit-24 days agoThey both seem equally plausible. “NO PLATE” would be officers writing it in, and if they left it blank the computer would turn it into NULL. I bet “BLANK” could cause similar issues
I read an article once about a guy who got a NO PLATE licence plate and ended up being automatically blamed whenever a cop wrote in that a car had no licence plate. I wonder what 0X00000 would do.
NULL too.
I think that’s what I was actually thinking of but I mixed it up.
They both seem equally plausible. “NO PLATE” would be officers writing it in, and if they left it blank the computer would turn it into NULL.
I bet “BLANK” could cause similar issues