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>> "It only takes 23 years to forget history." I dont think this means people have forgot history, rather, I think people make tradeoffs. You trade off size/sp
by TuringNYC 3y ago
>> "It only takes 23 years to forget history."
I dont think this means people have forgot history, rather, I think people make tradeoffs. You trade off size/space/ease for long-term disruption. Most developers making these decisions now will be close to a 100yo in 2199. It will not be their problem, or even their childrens' problem. Possibly their grand-children's problem.
Alternatively, I could argue that the life of most systems is short enough that 80yrs is too long a horizon to worry about the problem.
- thaumasiotes 3y ago> Most developers making these decisions now will be close to a 100yo in 2199. We're giving people too much responsibility too young.
- NeoTar 3y agoWe’re definitely giving negative seventy year-olds too much responsibility.
- thaumasiotes 3y agoOn the other hand, the ability to communicate with people several decades before they're born should have promising implications for the in-much-higher-demand ability to communicate with people after they've died.
- dralley 3y agoThis is what happens when tech companies start looking down on anyone over the age of 30.
- oh_sigh 3y agoDo people under 30 care about an extra 2 bytes in a date object?
- numlock86 3y agoProbably, as a lot of people from the current TikTok generation might lack the attention span to read more than two digits, or rather four digits till the end. Embedding some random game's gameplay and audio into your financial export to keep them engaged would increase the size by a couple of magnitudes, too.
- Phrenzy 3y ago"There are 5 differences between these two spreadsheets. Can you find them all?"
- atkailash 3y ago[dead]
- patmcc 3y agoSure, but the cost of 2 bytes is a lot different now than it was in 1950 (or 1970, or whatever). Store the full year.
- RedNifre 3y agoNot in this case: They also changed the amount from "5.99" to "5.99 €", so the total number of bytes went up (3 bytes for the €).
- schoen 3y agoIf they've got the explicit space in there, then four bytes!