May Likes TorontoI feel like an archaeologist unearthing massive amounts of historical incompetence.
No, I'm not even talking about politics.
Bridge&Tunnel Jeff@mayintoronto As someone who deals with the consequences of technological and business decisions made two decades ago (or even more), I can relate. I maintain legacy software and sometimes wonder why some systems were built in very odd ways - unusual business/legal requirements were often to blame, the rest were software design choices from the late 1990s and/or done in a hurry because too few devs back then.
Most of the old code has been rewritten/replaced but I still find the occasional gem.
Chris Siebenmann@jf_718 @mayintoronto I've been at my current university position long enough that I've had the fun experience of dealing with the consequences of my own technology decisions made (closing in on) two decades ago. And more from shorter periods in the past, and a few from deeper¹.
(Also, past me did not write down as much as maybe he should have.)
¹ "Why is this filesystem specifically limited to 35GB?" "Well, you see, long ago our SAN fileservers split up space into 35 GB partitions ..."