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That will be the name of my next child.

by waspight 5y ago

pulse7 5y ago
Please don't do that... Elon Musk's son is named "X Æ A-12", don't follow his steps...
- bierjunge 5y ago
  Yes, don't do that, name the kid "null" and see the world burning.
  - yellow_lead 5y ago
    See your kid have trouble getting any official documentation :/
    - tomalpha 5y ago
      Or booking flights, filing taxes, signing up for shifts at work: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20160325-the-names-that-break-computer-systems https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20160325-the-names-that-b...
  - rPlayer6554 5y ago
    Poor Bobby tables.... https://xkcd.com/327/ https://xkcd.com/327/
  - belter 5y ago
    A common name... https://www.facebook.com/public/James-Null https://www.facebook.com/public/James-Null as well as Abcde https://www.facebook.com/public/Abcde https://www.facebook.com/public/Abcde
    - samhw 5y ago
      Relatedly, there's the classic of this woman with the surname 'True', whose iCloud didn't work as a result: https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/03/06/coding-error-locks-true-author-out-of-icloud https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/03/06/coding-error-lock...
  - nonameiguess 5y ago
    Need to be careful with that. There was a guy in California a few years back that decided the license plate "NULL" would be a fun joke, and he ended up being charged every ticket issued in the state where the license plate wasn't entered.
    - hunter2_ 5y ago
      I recall pondering the mechanics of this back when I first read about it. Is some software actually replacing an input of "" (empty string) with "NULL"? Or is some comparison so loosely typed that a value of type null is considered equal enough to the string "NULL"?
      - shrikant 5y ago
        Maybe they were using an Oracle database, where (shockingly) empty strings are treated as equivalent to NULLs. Edited to add: A "famous" wtf-worthy explainer from Oracle: https://asktom.oracle.com/pls/apex/f?p=100:11:0::::P11_QUESTION_ID:5984520277372 https://asktom.oracle.com/pls/apex/f?p=100:11:0::::P11_QUEST... Relevant snippet: '' when assigned to a char(1) becomes ' ' (char types are blank padded strings). '' when assigned to a varchar2(1) becomes '' which is a zero length string and a zero length string is NULL in Oracle (it is no long '')
        hunter2_ 5y ago
        The conflation of empty string with a real null isn't great, but it doesn't also imply conflation of the string "NULL" which is what I'm trying to figure out. The four-character sequence shouldn't ever be considered something other than a four-character string, except for particular non-user-facing situations such as when actually writing code. Even spreadsheet software, which does all kinds of heuristics to find numbers in strings for example, doesn't treat the string "NULL" as anything other than a four-character string, to my knowledge.
      - occamrazor 5y ago
        Somewhere some system depends on CSV files in Lotus 1-2-3 format transferred over a non 8-bit safe proprietary UUCP variant.
- ben_w 5y ago
  Musk wasn’t the first to try to use weird names, but he didn’t quite succeed with that one. Quoth wiki: """the name would have violated California regulations as it contained characters that are not in the modern English alphabet,[321][322] and was then changed to "X Æ A-Xii". This drew more confusion, as Æ is not a letter in the modern English alphabet.[323] The child was eventually named "X AE A-XII", with "X" as a first name and "AE A-XII" as a middle name.[324]"""
  - pulse7 5y ago
    <sarcasm>He must really love his baby more than his weird ideas...</sarcasm>
  - Aeolun 5y ago
    What compels people to do stuff like this? And what wife would possibly agree to this insanity?
    - greymalik 5y ago
      Grimes.
    - speedgoose 5y ago
      Some people are eccentric. Elon Musk is the husband of Claire Boucher, a musician.
      - oblio 5y ago
        Do you know that joke about crazy people being regular people and eccentric people being rich?
    - pizza234 5y ago
      Narcissism; the child's name is part of his show. Good question about the partner; I guess that a narcissist can pair well with a very passive person (or maybe another narcissist).
    - anchpop 5y ago
anonymousiam 5y ago
Better than Bobby Tables. https://xkcd.com/327/ https://xkcd.com/327/

That will be the name of my next child.

pulse7 5y ago

Please don't do that... Elon Musk's son is named "X Æ A-12", don't follow his steps...

bierjunge 5y ago
Yes, don't do that, name the kid "null" and see the world burning.
- yellow_lead 5y ago
  See your kid have trouble getting any official documentation :/
  - tomalpha 5y ago
    Or booking flights, filing taxes, signing up for shifts at work: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20160325-the-names-that-break-computer-systems https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20160325-the-names-that-b...
- rPlayer6554 5y ago
  Poor Bobby tables.... https://xkcd.com/327/ https://xkcd.com/327/
- belter 5y ago
  A common name... https://www.facebook.com/public/James-Null https://www.facebook.com/public/James-Null as well as Abcde https://www.facebook.com/public/Abcde https://www.facebook.com/public/Abcde
  - samhw 5y ago
    Relatedly, there's the classic of this woman with the surname 'True', whose iCloud didn't work as a result: https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/03/06/coding-error-locks-true-author-out-of-icloud https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/03/06/coding-error-lock...
- nonameiguess 5y ago
  Need to be careful with that. There was a guy in California a few years back that decided the license plate "NULL" would be a fun joke, and he ended up being charged every ticket issued in the state where the license plate wasn't entered.
  - hunter2_ 5y ago
    I recall pondering the mechanics of this back when I first read about it. Is some software actually replacing an input of "" (empty string) with "NULL"? Or is some comparison so loosely typed that a value of type null is considered equal enough to the string "NULL"?
    - shrikant 5y ago
      Maybe they were using an Oracle database, where (shockingly) empty strings are treated as equivalent to NULLs. Edited to add: A "famous" wtf-worthy explainer from Oracle: https://asktom.oracle.com/pls/apex/f?p=100:11:0::::P11_QUESTION_ID:5984520277372 https://asktom.oracle.com/pls/apex/f?p=100:11:0::::P11_QUEST... Relevant snippet: '' when assigned to a char(1) becomes ' ' (char types are blank padded strings). '' when assigned to a varchar2(1) becomes '' which is a zero length string and a zero length string is NULL in Oracle (it is no long '')
      - hunter2_ 5y ago
        The conflation of empty string with a real null isn't great, but it doesn't also imply conflation of the string "NULL" which is what I'm trying to figure out. The four-character sequence shouldn't ever be considered something other than a four-character string, except for particular non-user-facing situations such as when actually writing code. Even spreadsheet software, which does all kinds of heuristics to find numbers in strings for example, doesn't treat the string "NULL" as anything other than a four-character string, to my knowledge.
    - occamrazor 5y ago
      Somewhere some system depends on CSV files in Lotus 1-2-3 format transferred over a non 8-bit safe proprietary UUCP variant.
ben_w 5y ago
Musk wasn’t the first to try to use weird names, but he didn’t quite succeed with that one. Quoth wiki: """the name would have violated California regulations as it contained characters that are not in the modern English alphabet,[321][322] and was then changed to "X Æ A-Xii". This drew more confusion, as Æ is not a letter in the modern English alphabet.[323] The child was eventually named "X AE A-XII", with "X" as a first name and "AE A-XII" as a middle name.[324]"""
- pulse7 5y ago
  <sarcasm>He must really love his baby more than his weird ideas...</sarcasm>
- Aeolun 5y ago
  What compels people to do stuff like this? And what wife would possibly agree to this insanity?
  - greymalik 5y ago
    Grimes.
  - speedgoose 5y ago
    Some people are eccentric. Elon Musk is the husband of Claire Boucher, a musician.
    - oblio 5y ago
      Do you know that joke about crazy people being regular people and eccentric people being rich?
  - pizza234 5y ago
    Narcissism; the child's name is part of his show. Good question about the partner; I guess that a narcissist can pair well with a very passive person (or maybe another narcissist).
  - anchpop 5y ago

anonymousiam 5y ago

Better than Bobby Tables. https://xkcd.com/327/ https://xkcd.com/327/