not_IO@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Programmer Humor@programming.devEnglish · 18 hours agothe fascists are running techlemmy.blahaj.zoneimagemessage-square43linkfedilinkarrow-up1961arrow-down19file-text
arrow-up1952arrow-down1imagethe fascists are running techlemmy.blahaj.zonenot_IO@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Programmer Humor@programming.devEnglish · 18 hours agomessage-square43linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareMoffKalast@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up18·16 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-up2·14 hours agoWhat happened in 86?
minus-squareA_norny_mousse@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·12 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.
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.