Transposition error
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So awhile ago I worked on a system that moved education records between 2 different systems at a university. It kept choking on one particular record; turns out the date of birth was in 1499, and MSSQL won’t store dates from before the start of the Gregorian calendar unless you specifically configure it to do so.
We sent a request through to have the record corrected - clearly someone has just typoed 1949 - and moved on, but maybe…
RegalPotoo@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Wrufieotnak@feddit.org 1 month ago
Just one question: on which keyboard are 4 and 9 close to each other to get typoed *X-Files music starts*
DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
It’s not about close position in this case, it’s that the idiot was typing quickly and hit the numbers in the wrong order.
jaybone@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Or left hand hovering 1 and 4, right hand hovering in over 6 through 0.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 month ago
in the number industry we call it a transposition error and you can tell if the difference between the two is a multiple of 9.
Bgugi@lemmy.world 1 month ago
All I can think of is a gruff, blue collar worker coming home, covered in oil stains. He hangs up his hardhat and lunch pail at the door. “You would not believe the day I had!” He says, “Some jackass put the 9 dies in the 6 press, and I had to spend all morning trying to pry open the hydraulics without fucking them up. After all that, I get a call that the serifs are too long on the ones and they’re getting sorted as sevens!”
JustZ@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Never would have thought of that.