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Re:Your last name contains invalid characters (2010) by xnzakg on Wednesday January 10, 2024 @04:52AM (#38938355)
> Some people just can't fathom it when the name doesn't exactly match, no critical thinking is allowed in those cases.

In my experience computers are the bigger issue. A human can think outside the box in a way a `strcmp` can't.

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Re:Your last name contains invalid characters (2010) by aristus on Wednesday January 10, 2024 @03:11PM (#38942499)
You might be surprised. I spent a long time carefully and politely explaining to an immigration case officer that "Firstname NMN Lastname" meant, in fact, that there was No Middle Name and not that there was a middle name cryptically encoded as NMN.
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Re:Your last name contains invalid characters (2010) by pixl97 on Wednesday January 10, 2024 @03:35PM (#38942718)
>A human can think outside the box in a way a `strcmp` can't.

Computer says no

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0n_Ty_72Qds

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A human can do many things, but never underestimate the power of the system (Hello Moloch) to remove said creative abilities from humans. Also never underestimate how creatively stupid humans can be.

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