World's Most Aggravating Edge Cases
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THIS WEEK ON "WORLD'S MOST AGGRAVATING EDGE CASES" by @qntm.org
Tickets to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_Noth...
July 14, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Tickets to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_Noth...
"do I need to inform the DVLA about the period that my car will be uninsured?"
July 14, 2025 at 7:12 PM
"do I need to inform the DVLA about the period that my car will be uninsured?"
Oldie but a goodie
July 14, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Oldie but a goodie
Actually being named "Boffa" or "Bofa", working at an organisation whose name can be abbreviated to "B of A", etc. etc.
July 14, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Actually being named "Boffa" or "Bofa", working at an organisation whose name can be abbreviated to "B of A", etc. etc.
Poor Bobby Tables... publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbi...
July 14, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Poor Bobby Tables... publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbi...
The delta variant, when you are Delta Air Lines
May 19, 2025 at 10:18 AM
The delta variant, when you are Delta Air Lines
And here (the highlighted line, comment added) is the string "true" being special-case coerced to the Boolean `true`
May 14, 2025 at 6:36 PM
And here (the highlighted line, comment added) is the string "true" being special-case coerced to the Boolean `true`
Yup, here's the custom type error message in the JS source:
May 14, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Yup, here's the custom type error message in the JS source:
Your astonishing, perspective-altering, society-upheaving science fiction or fantasy story of precisely 17,500 words is ineligible for any category of Hugo
May 14, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Your astonishing, perspective-altering, society-upheaving science fiction or fantasy story of precisely 17,500 words is ineligible for any category of Hugo
Trend with a comma in it
Trend with " and " in it
Trend with " and " in it
May 14, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Trend with a comma in it
Trend with " and " in it
Trend with " and " in it
A meteorite had knocked a large hole in the ship. The ship had not previously detected this because the meteorite had neatly knocked out that part of the ship's processing equipment which was supposed to detect if the ship had been hit by a meteorite
May 12, 2025 at 11:12 PM
A meteorite had knocked a large hole in the ship. The ship had not previously detected this because the meteorite had neatly knocked out that part of the ship's processing equipment which was supposed to detect if the ship had been hit by a meteorite
Citing the fact that the origin of an expression is unclear
![Wikipedia article on the phrase "Kuzma's mother", with a particular piece of text in the article highlighted in red:
"The origin of the expression is unclear. [citation needed]"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:v7v3t7l6jvjseniiwecx3uop/bafkreiawekkibpvkp24khk3qbpi44tcjkfub33qzit24fcxeqaiissegxu@jpeg)
May 7, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Citing the fact that the origin of an expression is unclear
