Lyle Seaman

Neither Here nor There

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... or maybe I should have said both here and there?

The Beast in Black has an equivocal fuel system. "Apparently, the propane level in my storage tank just went quantum, and even the act of observing the level has not collapsed the superposition of more propane and less propane. I KNEW that the Copenhagen Interpretation couldn't be objectively correct."


Pickup Sticklers

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An Anonymous quality analyst and audiophile accounted "As a returning customer at napalmrecords.com I was forced to update my Billing Address. Fine. Sure. But what if my *House number* is a very big number? More than 10 "symbols"? Fortunately, 0xDEADBEEF for House number and J****** for First Name both passed validation."


You Talkin' to Me?

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The Beast In Black is back with a simple but silly factual error on the part of the gateway to all (most) human knowledge.


Free Birds

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"These results are incomprensible," Brian wrote testily. "The developers at SkillCertPro must use math derived from an entirely different universe than ours. I can boast a world record number of answered questions in one hour and fifteen minutes somewhere."


Superfluous U's

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In today's Error'd episode, we flirt with European English to acknowledge the GDPR.

Modern Architect jeffphi shared an example of a hot software pattern from the early 21st. "As a bonus, these pickleball events appear to come with pickleball event listeners, too!"


Scamproof

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Gordon S. is smarter than the machines. "I can only presume the "Fix Now with AI" button adds some mistakes in order to fix the lack of needed fixes."


8 Days a Week

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"What word can spell with the letters housucops?" asks Mark R. "Sometimes AI hallucinations can be hard to find. Other times, they just kind of stand out..."


Abort, Cancel, Fail?

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low-case jeffphi found "Yep, all kinds of technical errors."


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