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minus-squaremycodesucks@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up28·17 hours ago“It doesn’t have to be like this.” -Every system that is demonstrably horrible and propped up by people who are too apathetic, lazy, or tired to change.
minus-squareMoffKalast@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up18·17 hours agoOr more like some dumbass back in 1986 made an arbitrary decision and it’s now hardcoded into every system on the planet, and the improvement is not enough of an improvement to justify breaking backwards compatibility.
minus-squareanarcockworkorange@anarchist.nexuslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·15 hours agoWhat happened in 86?
minus-squareA_norny_mousse@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·13 hours agoI don’t think they were refering to anything specific, but it might have been Bill Gates when he was still doing the actual programming.
“It doesn’t have to be like this.”
-Every system that is demonstrably horrible and propped up by people who are too apathetic, lazy, or tired to change.
Or more like some dumbass back in 1986 made an arbitrary decision and it’s now hardcoded into every system on the planet, and the improvement is not enough of an improvement to justify breaking backwards compatibility.
What happened in 86?
I don’t think they were refering to anything specific, but it might have been Bill Gates when he was still doing the actual programming.