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[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Interface designers make mistakes, but I don't think they'd make the mistake of allowing a negative sign anywhere on it. You could try for integer overflow, but that's gonna be really bad if you guess wrong.

[–] gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

One time I did come across one of these that popped the whole iPad keyboard up, I tried to enter a negative number and clearly the programers were extra dumb because it managed to crash the whole POS and force a reboot

ETA: cashier thought it was hilarious, store owner got so mad he banned me from the store "for life"

[–] Sergio@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 week ago

banned me from the store “for life”

Awesome! I hope you refused to honor it unless he put a poster on the front door with a picture of you and a ghostbusters-style "no" sign around it.