• breadsmasher@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    “If you start losing things like that then everything goes downhill doesn’t it?”

    Is this a joke? I wish, but I doubt it.

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      2 months ago

      They have a point, though. It’s digital representation that should reflect real world, not the other way around.

      In the same way I can totally imagine truncating street signs with names too long for a char(16) field someone came up with when creating a DB. Reminds me of people making logistics software and limiting Zip codes to be 6 digits.

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        2 months ago

        In this case the digital representation reshapes the real world and that makes me uneasy and weird feeling for some reason

        Edit: was meant to post to the post above yours

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      In this case the digital representation reshapes the real world and that makes me uneasy and weird feeling for some reason