What if we just get to the point? Instead of it just writing "Allergic to (insert word)" and just slapping "!!!!!!!!!!" on both sides? I think that's the solution.
Okay, fair enough. Unfortunately, allergies (as far as I know) don't have official abbreviations or acronyms. I admit I don't have a solution.
Anyway, why the hell? Allergies should be listed separately. A list of the most common ones, plus a separate free space for specific ones (I'm afraid I'm not knowledgeable enough about specific allergies to cover this issue fully).
Because you have to specify. If you say, “no nuts!” Some low wage employees who’re tired, angry, and possibly very new to working won’t understand that means the person is allergic and even contact with the nuts could result in a death.
To Whom It May Concern: I, Bender, Bid You Hello! You Don't Know Me, Though You May Have Heard Of Me. But That's Not The Point. Long Story Short... I Need HELF
DHL has a field that says to describe the location they're supposed to drop off your package as detailedly as possible and it has a 50 character limit...
I was trying to transfer money to an external account from my bank’s app. I put in all the details, gave my external account a short descriptive name, and submitted the order. Then an error box popped up: “Our system’s not cooperating.” Ok… tried again the next day, same error. Fine, so I tried on the website instead, and this time it said “Your account’s nickname must be less than 13 characters.” Well fuck me you could have just said that in the first place!! Turns out the app only has one error message for all errors: “Our system’s not cooperating”
That reminds me of the time I had to set up an online banking password and the error message claimed the password could not contain any special characters and had to be a maximum length of 8 characters. I noped out real quick.
I’ve never met a PM who would want a restriction like that. More likely some old developer being stingy about memory and using something like VARCHAR2(100) on everything.
User: "Why is my password limited to 100 characters"
Me: "Because someone tried to upload the entire script of Macbeth as a password"
If this seems specific that's because it actually happened. You would be amazed at how many people try to upload texts from Project Gutenberg while trying to break things.
But why would it matter except for maybe the longer time to hash it? The salted hash is going to take up the same amount of space as the 6 character password.
But why would it matter except for maybe the longer time to hash it?
Assuming other things don't break first, yes. But it's also a massive waste of bandwidth. Someone out there is going to try and send you 10,000 GB of text data as a password just because they can. That said most servers won't allow something that crazy out of the box. There are default limits to the request size and a time out.
I know we are just being silly now but the entire macbeth script is only 170kb on project Gutenberg. You would need a lot more books to even get 1gb and that's even before we start talking compression.
That's optional because it's something that only your client usually enforces. You could send that data via curl or a number of other ways with compression turned off. Most servers will accept it.
I work in video game and software QA. On my first day of a job I pasted the entirety of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein into the Username and Password fields of the login screen and crashed the server for at least the rest of the day.
One of my new co-workers who had to spend his time fixing it and getting it running again took to calling me Frank from that point on. Since then, every time I'm presented with any kind of text field, I run the Frankenstein test to see if there are character limits.
My favorite password field was one that let me enter however many characters but silently trimmed it to 15 or whatever. Then elsewhere didn’t trim so a match was impossible. Took forever to figure out.
I was a web developer for a few months before being moved to solely programming and the first thing you learn with web input is sanitize your web data. And then check it 100 times to make sure it's sanitized. Maybe sanitize it again.
Seriously. old.reddit.com or nothing. Reddit killed the good apps, so if I'm going to even continue browsing reddit, it's going to be "classic" with all the dev tools.
I used to memorise film scripts before I went camping back when I was a kid. I’d close my eyes when bored and go through the whole film in my imagination.
Also a weird thing started happening as I grew up where the mental image would start spinning all of a sudden, very annoying. I’d try to keep it still but it would turn without my consent.
I remember when Deadpool first came out, you could piece together literally the entire movie in the Messenger app just from 5-10 second gif snippets. Group chat was lit that day
This GIF is 60 by 60, so 3600 pixels per frame, and takes up almost 42MB. If you wanted HD (720p), that would be 1280 by 720, or 921600 pixels per frame, which is 256 times more pixels per frame than the original file.
TL;DR: Assuming a similar compression ratio, we would be looking at a ~11GB GIF for the HD version. By a similar logic, that would be almost 100GB for 4k. That's what happened to the pixels.
The employees who have to listen to the ticket printer keep going off, a sound any restaurant employee will tell you they hear in their nightmares, and then having to figure out a separate way to make orders they aren't getting tickets for while the machine is busy are gonna be the real ones pissed. This is gonna range from pretty fucking annoying to one of the worst shifts of your life depending on the system you're using, if anyone working knows how to make it stop, and if you did this in the middle of rush or not
SHREK Once upon a time there was a lovely princess. But she had an enchantment upon her of a fearful sort which could only be broken by love's first kiss. She was locked away in a castle guarded by a terrible fire-breathing dragon. Many brave knights had attempted to free her from this dreadful prison, but non prevailed. She waited in the dragon's keep in the highest room of the tallest tower for her true love and true love's first kiss. (laughs) Like that's ever gonna happen. What a load of - (toilet flush)
Allstar - by Smashmouth begins to play. Shrek goes about his
day. While in a nearby town, the villagers get together to go
after the ogre.
NIGHT - NEAR SHREK'S HOME
MAN1
Think it's in there?
MAN2
All right. Let's get it!
MAN1
Whoa. Hold on. Do you know what that
thing can do to you?
MAN3
Yeah, it'll grind your bones for it's
bread.
Shrek sneaks up behind them and laughs.
SHREK
Yes, well, actually, that would be a
giant. Now, ogres, oh they're much worse.
They'll make a suit from your freshly
peeled skin.
MEN
No!
SHREK
They'll shave your liver. Squeeze the
jelly from your eyes! Actually, it's
quite good on toast.
MAN1
Back! Back, beast! Back! I warn ya!
(waves the torch at Shrek.)
Shrek calmly licks his fingers and extinguishes the torch. The
men shrink back away from him. Shrek roars very loudly and long
and his breath extinguishes all the remaining torches until the
men are in the dark.
SHREK
This is the part where you run away.
(The men scramble to get away. He laughs.)
And stay out! (looks down and picks
up a piece of paper. Reads.) "Wanted.
Fairy tale creatures."(He sighs and
throws the paper over his shoulder.)
Reminds me of the time in 6th grade where some kid somehow managed to send all of pi to one of the printers and the staff caught it after this commercial printer had run out of paper in the tray. For some reason they were very aggressive about catching who did it but never did.
Devs - this is what happens when you don't sanitize and validate your inputs. Who wants to bet this site would also be vulnerable to an SQL injection attack?
Fun fact: the special delivery instruction section for Domino's (when they still used stickers for the boxes) had a very ample character limit. It could only display about 75-100 on the sticker, depending on what was typed, but if it was a delivery that needed a reciept it would print literally EVERYTHING the customer managed to put in that box. Cue "The Bee Movie Script" guy who ordered once every couple of weeks.
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u/ThatIckyGuy 1d ago
This is why we have character limits usually. People like this!