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Good luck speed cameras
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lil bobby tables finally get his license?
Lol, my exact first thought, Bobby Tables turned 18!
Assuming he went to school at a normal age, i dont think he aged 1.2*10^17 years between the comic and now
Where do you need to be 18 to drive?
In a considerable part of the world. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_minimum_driving_ages
Oh, guess NA bias is showing.
Yeah, I assumed most of the world was at least 18. I was surprised when I moved to the US at 15 and could get a learner's permit and drive with an adult, and drive by myself at 16.
Growing up in a rural part of Ohio it was needed. Everything was 20-30 miles away. Need milk and eggs, well see you an a hour
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Almost everywhere... there are very few places where you can drive before you're 18. There are like junuor permits and you can get them when you're 16, but your parrents are the ones responsible for your driving. Something happens, they get ringed. So, yeah, they can also not give you the license if you cause too much trouble.
Poland and probably most of Europe. You don't need a car here for everyday living, so there is no point in giving licenses and care to kids.
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that xkcd is... completely irrelevant to the post.
Replace "all 1's or something" with "drop database or something" and it 100% applies.
and replace pork steak with tofu chilli bowl and it is now vegetarian food. what is your point?
And if my grandma had two wheels she would be a bicycke. What are we talking about again?
And if my grandma had two wheels she would be a bicycke.
No, she would be human with two wheels. That is not what a bicycle is
What are we talking about again?
We are talking about the fact that when someone says "that is not relevant", countering with "if some facts were different, it would suddenly be relevant" is not very useful answer.
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Makes me wonder if the Lucky 10,000 comic came out because of how often people might’ve said “everybody’s seen that XKCD”.
I'm pretty sure the cameras around here don't use OCR at all or even if it does it only recognizes the format for plates from a thing shaped like a plate. So if you're driving like an ass with the drop tables-"plate" that is pretty relevant.
The Bobby Tables one I'm quite sure would work at least on some systems if they let you input your kids name by yourself to some sort of digital form. Or at least I would be pretty surprised if every school system on earth would be patched against simple sql injections.
So if you’re driving like an ass with the drop tables-“plate” that is pretty relevant.
the only thing they have in common is the license plate. that is like saying that every joke that starts with "three people walk into a bar" is basically the same joke.
but here, have a photo that is actually relevant to the submitted xkcd ;)
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The license plate cameras near me simply take a photo when motion is detected and send it to the server or stores it until connection is reestablished. Then they use image recognition on the car to determine the make and model and on the license plate. They also claim that they can record items such as bumper stickers or body damage. I think that they probably have humans review cars that don't match exactly. My guess is that they use object detection to isolate the license plate, but you could probably make one by printing text onto a piece of paper and gluing it onto some cardboard. I also think you could mess with it if you put a decal of a letter or number next to your license plate.
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Not always a good idea
https://www.wired.com/story/null-license-plate-landed-one-hacker-ticket-hell/
according to Tartaro, he says he received a notice that the California DMV would not let him renew his registration unless he actually paid some of those fines.
that sounds so illegal. but i am not an american, so what do i know.
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How the heck does a system interpret a string value null as a literal null? That seems insane to me that there really is software out there written like this. "null" != null... Or so I thought, maybe there are languages out there that this can happen in easily? Or someone is storing the string value of null in a non nullable database column?
May I introduce you to our lord and savior JavaScript?
Javas Christ.
But even in JavaScript a string representation of null is not equal to a null literal. 'null' or "null" are not the same as null
“He had it coming,” says Christopher Null, a journalist who has written previously for WIRED about the challenges his last name presents.
This is peak nottheonion material
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I think this would get you charged depending on the locality, do not try at home kids
Image is European but I'm pretty sure here in California trying to obscure your plate is illegal. Though I'm not sure what actually counts against it, since I know a couple of people with those bullshit plastic films that claim to obscure your plate from traffic cams but not from people looking at it.
They don't actually work, but I feel like the intent behind using them could get you in trouble.
I'm pretty sure obscuring your plates is illegal in most places in Europe. How much anyone actually cares probably depends on specific locality.
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I miss ancient memes like this
Reminds me of the woman that got a fine for "driving in a bus lane" here in the UK. When she looked at the attached image on the fine it was of a woman walking in the street of a town she'd never been to. On that woman's jumper was lettering that closely resembled her plates.
Made me think I could attach a sheet of card with the plate details of some arsehole I disliked, ride a bicycle down the bus lane and see if they start complaining about being fined. 😅
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Is there even a remotely possible chance something like that would work? I have to drive past a ALPR that checks for insurance every day. I wouldn't mind plastering code across my tailgate in a design that resembles a license plate.
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Little Bobby tables learns to drive.
This is smart. When my son was learning, I put a magnetic ‘student driver’ sign on my car, too. More people should do this. It’s just polite.
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I have been learning some database stuff today. Finally understand the drop table thing better.
This was actually tried btw. Mostly as a joke iirc
Edit: Looking into it, apparently it's not confirmed. Damn, that was a very popular urban myth in french programming circles back in the 2010's
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