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These real-life effects by our decisions in technology sometimes half way around the world are very interesting to me. Similar to how some poeple are unlucky en
by pests 3y ago
These real-life effects by our decisions in technology sometimes half way around the world are very interesting to me. Similar to how some poeple are unlucky enough to live in their communities geographic center that becomes the default location for GPS lookups for that location.
- defrost 3y agoThere was US mapping software (not the international scientific survey semi open source stuff, commercial mapping for US public) in the late 1980s and 1990s that actually had positive longitude displays over the US mainland so that their users didn't have to think in negative numbers. As I noted elsewhere in this thread, large swathes of US software couldn't handle mapping computations that straddled the date line and it's breathtaking that this is still an issue today.