• Pulptastic
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    1 year ago

    They don’t know how to program in assembly because they don’t have to know. Same is true for WinRAR, rotary phones, stick shifts, and all the other cruft that prior generations had to deal with.

    Hardship makes you hardy but reducing hardship is progress.

    • Liz
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      1 year ago

      The industrious among us just find other frontiers to push and hardships to subject ourselves to.

    • fallingcats@discuss.tchncs.de
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      1 year ago

      Zips aren’t “cruft”. Many new formats are zips with another name, like all the office OOXML formats (docx,xlsx,…), 3mf and so on.