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It flabbergasts me to find out that, by 2018 [1], people who are making decisions apparently still hadn't figured out that attempting to censor things (includin
by Delk 6y ago
It flabbergasts me to find out that, by 2018 [1], people who are making decisions apparently still hadn't figured out that attempting to censor things (including people's names, of all things) using substring matching doesn't work and is a bad idea.
I mean... I understand that when we were experimenting with things on the internet in 1996 that might have come as a surprise because, you know, you just don't think of everything. But 25 years later?
[1] some of the examples at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem#Other_examples https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem#Other_examp...