• aramis87@fedia.io
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    It rhymed with Smoracle. Which is really ironic because you’d think that’s the ONE company that would (a) understand how to write a SQL statement, and (b) get really effing concerned when a simple database query broke their product.

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      It seems from the description that there’s the length of the request there stored in 11 bits, hell knows why, so max of 2046 (682*3, that’s 683*3 = 2049 if starting with 1), and one symbol takes an increment of 3, hell knows why.

      That’s, ahem, yes, a pretty gross mistake for such rhyming companies, the kind only I am allowed to make.

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        Oh, cool! I never figured out why they had the 683/684-character limit thing, so it’s cool beans to you - thank you!

        They ended up “fixing” the problem by increasing the character limit to 2048, which was nice.