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Airline keeps mistaking 101-year-old woman for baby
- eimrine 3y agoFalsehoods programmers believe about age.
- azornathogron 3y ago> “My daughter made the reservation online for the ticket and the computer at the airport thought my birth date was 2022 and not 1922," she told me. So it's a classic Y2K bug. Something is representing the year as two digits, meaning the century needs to be guessed, and the heuristic gives the wrong answer for this case.
- heavenlyblue 3y agoI think the problem with airlines is that a lot of internal information transfer is via fixed sized fields and often birth date is represented as 2 digits
- azornathogron 3y agoDupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40185903 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40185903
- BobbyTables2 3y agoI suppose now she can fly for free on someone’s lap.