@lispi314 @arh @argv_minus_one @fabiscafe
The programmer was asking for it then.
You're not wrong, but it is non-the-less a huge problem. I work on Java in $dayjob and the long tail of customers who have yet to move off JDK8 (latest we provide is JDK21) for these reasons is massive
https://hachyderm.io/@simontatham/114021236557200593
In today’s “terminology matters”:
❌ Return To Office policy: middle-management language that assumes “office” is a neutral position, we’re somehow “returning to”. This term has been carefully crafted by corporate strategists to sound as palatable as possible.
✅ Mandatory Commute policy: centers the outcome for workers - spending hours each day on an unpaid commute to and from the office just so we can be on video calls all day.
We don’t just have to accept hostile framing.
One of the advantages of the downfall of the United States will be eradicating the mm/dd/yyyy date format
“I dug deep and found the most advanced VHS archiving project around: VHS-Decode. The short version is you solder wires into a VCR to extract as close to the raw tape signal as possible. From there, you are doing the decoding of the image in software. If you wanna see what a freakishly clean encode upscaled to 4K looks like on a tape from 1987 of The Cure on the BBC, check this shit out.
From there, I would just compulsively buy stuff that had no good encode.”
https://aftermath.site/ricky-jay-defector-archive-preservation