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xkcd 927 - How Standards Proliferate
(See: A/C chargers, character encodings, instant messaging, etc.)

Situation: There are 14 competing standards.

Cueball and Ponytail stand facing each other:
Cueball: 14?! Ridiculous! We need to develop one universal standard that covers everyone’s use cases.
Ponytail: Yeah!

Soon: Situation: we did it our standard beat all the other ones and is universal yay :D

  • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
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    5 days ago

    i really do not understand why people keep saying it’s worse, it’s very very obviously so much better than it has ever been.
    It’s not difficult to understand, it’s like how you have to put larger pipes in the wall if you want more water from the faucet. Obviously we can’t just shove huge pipes everywhere!