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THIS WEEK ON "WORLD'S MOST AGGRAVATING EDGE CASES" by @qntm.org

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World's Most Aggravating Edge Cases @badedgecases.bsky.social · May 12

YOU PAID FOR ALL THE TEST CASES BUT YOU'LL ONLY NEED THE EDGE

World's Most Aggravating Edge Cases @badedgecases.bsky.social · 9d

Discontinuities in civil time

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qntm @qntm.org · 28d

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Search interface with options "Search by ISBN/ASIN", "Search by Title", "Search by Author" and "Search by Publisher". "Search by Author" is selected. Under "Author Full Name", "qntm" has been entered. There is an error message in red: "Please enter a minimum of 5 characters"

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Smylers @smylers.uk · Sep 4

The way to discover which version of the Gnome desktop I'm running … depends on which version of the Gnome desktop I'm running.

I've so far found 4 different ways suggested in various online guides that don't work in this version, and 2 that give the wrong answer! @badedgecases.bsky.social

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World's Most Aggravating Edge Cases @badedgecases.bsky.social · Aug 5

You and your friends try to visit All Bar One but it turns out that you are the one

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gengarro @gengarro.bsky.social · Jul 25

Norman Reedus needing an adult to get him access to Discord because his face, and his face only, is blocked from verification

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Richard Bowes 🇵🇸 @richardbowes.bsky.social · Jul 14

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Real office fire at the same time as weekly alarm test.

(This actually happened to me)

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World's Most Aggravating Edge Cases @badedgecases.bsky.social · Aug 5

Just reposting the archive from Twitter

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Lukas @lxgr.net · Jul 14

You might be delighted/horrified to learn that the machine-readable zone of ICAO passports encodes all dates as YYMMDD – including the date of birth.

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Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · Dec 25

Everything on Steam today is $2.99 buff.ly/2wGgxQo

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World's Most Aggravating Edge Cases @badedgecases.bsky.social · Jul 14

Darts player with 20ft arms

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World's Most Aggravating Edge Cases @badedgecases.bsky.social · Jul 14

Godot shows up

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World's Most Aggravating Edge Cases @badedgecases.bsky.social · Jul 14

"My wife had to replace her phone because the old one's camera was broken. Almost all of the banking and government apps and WhatsApp required her to restore her account by scanning a QR code with... the broken camera on her old phone. Often with no alternatives."

Joost Maglev on X: ". @badedgecases My wife had to replace her phone because the old one's camera was broken. Almost all of the banking and government apps and WhatsApp required her to restore her account by scanning a QR code with... the broken camera on her old phone. Often with no alternatives." / X

. @badedgecases My wife had to replace her phone because the old one's camera was broken. Almost all of the banking and government apps and WhatsApp required her to restore her account by scanning a QR code with... the broken camera on her old phone. Often with no alternatives.

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World's Most Aggravating Edge Cases @badedgecases.bsky.social · Jul 14

Significant trailing whitespace

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World's Most Aggravating Edge Cases @badedgecases.bsky.social · Jul 14

An employee's surname is "Null" stackoverflow.com/questions/44...

How to pass "Null" (a real surname!) to a SOAP web service in ActionScript 3

We have an employee whose surname is Null. Our employee lookup application is killed when that last name is used as the search term (which happens to be quite often now). The error received is: <

stackoverflow.com

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World's Most Aggravating Edge Cases @badedgecases.bsky.social · Jul 14

A log, filtered for the string "*error*", not showing any errors but showing plenty of log output for events where the complex alphanumeric `sessie_id` entirely coincidentally contained the string "ErRor"

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World's Most Aggravating Edge Cases @badedgecases.bsky.social · Jul 14

Bluesky post by @adamserwer.bsky.social, June 26, 2024:

"It is very funny how one of the Supreme Court's big issues is making it impossible to outlaw bribery because they like being bribed"

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World's Most Aggravating Edge Cases @badedgecases.bsky.social · Jul 14

"Apparently if your child turns two while on an American Airlines flight and they’re still sitting on your lap, a US Air Marshall will perform a dragon suplex on them at exactly 12:00am midnight"

Sam Winkler on X: "Apparently if your child turns two while on an American Airlines flight and they’re still sitting on your lap, a US Air Marshall will perform a dragon suplex on them at exactly 12:00am midnight https://t.co/s4W13BMtH2" / X

Apparently if your child turns two while on an American Airlines flight and they’re still sitting on your lap, a US Air Marshall will perform a dragon suplex on them at exactly 12:00am midnight https://t.co/s4W13BMtH2

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World's Most Aggravating Edge Cases @badedgecases.bsky.social · Jul 14

A guided tour of every conceivable edge case you might encounter while attempting to define the term "mainline Super Mario Game"

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ddm...

how many Super Mario games are there NOW?

YouTube video by jan Misali

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World's Most Aggravating Edge Cases @badedgecases.bsky.social · Jul 14

Duolingo: "Translate this sentence: How do you say goodbye in Italian?"

User has entered "arrivederci"

Duolingo: "Incorrect! Correct answer: ¿Cómo se dice adiós en italiano?"

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World's Most Aggravating Edge Cases @badedgecases.bsky.social · Jul 14

"Biannual" event which occurs twice in every second year

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World's Most Aggravating Edge Cases @badedgecases.bsky.social · Jul 14

4'33"

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World's Most Aggravating Edge Cases @badedgecases.bsky.social · Jul 14

I dislike declaring a real human being to be a "bad edge case" but this is a great story

And a cautionary tale to everybody who creates user interfaces where people have to enter an age or date of birth

x.com/joetidy/stat...

Joe Tidy BBC News on X: "I’m on a flight in US and an old lady has caused confusion, hilarity and then amazement as the crew expected her to be an infant. She is actually 101 and the computer can’t handle an age that high so just put her down as a 1 year old on the manifest. She laughed it off. Legend." / X

I’m on a flight in US and an old lady has caused confusion, hilarity and then amazement as the crew expected her to be an infant. She is actually 101 and the computer can’t handle an age that high so just put her down as a 1 year old on the manifest. She laughed it off. Legend.

x.com

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World's Most Aggravating Edge Cases @badedgecases.bsky.social · Jul 14

During a soccer match, the referee, who has sole authority to cause the match to be stopped, suspended or abandoned, dies

World's Most Aggravating Edge Cases @badedgecases.bsky.social · Jul 14

Imagine how difficult it would be if you had two colleagues, one called Ian and one called Iain, but Iain only had one eye.

x.com/MooseAllain/...

Moose Allain Ꙭ on X: "Imagine how difficult it would be if you had two colleagues, one called Ian and one called Iain, but Iain only had one eye." / X

Imagine how difficult it would be if you had two colleagues, one called Ian and one called Iain, but Iain only had one eye.

x.com

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World's Most Aggravating Edge Cases @badedgecases.bsky.social · Jul 14

"the green squares are tests that are passing. it just so happens that one of the test suites is called 'compiler-errors'"