Japan's government has finally eliminated the use of floppy disks in all its systems, two decades since their heyday, reaching a long-awaited milestone in a campaign to modernize the bureaucracy. By the middle of last month, the Digital Agency had scrapped all 1,034 regulations governing their use, except for one…
What? How is that at all relevant in today’s age?
The lack of pressure leads to absurd file sizes for silly things.
A few weeks ago, I needed a vector company logo, so I asked our graphics team for one. The file they sent me was 6MB. While working with it, I noticed it was actually quite clean, so I exported it as an SVG and it came out to 2KB. 1/3000th the size for the exact same graphic.
I opened their file up in a text editor and found font configs for specific printer models (in a graphic with only filled curves), conditional logic, multiple thumbnails, and other junk.
Ok yea, but it’s 6MB, it’s inconsequential with today’s storage densities and a modern system can handle it with ease
“It’s not that big of a deal” repeated enough times, is exactly how our society got to this state in the first place.
Not when you have 1000s of files. It adds up.
A month ago i had a customer rating about not being able to upload the new Header image ( 250 MB ), while the error message clearly states: max 5 MB file size allowed. I didn’t even know where to start.
This is how the world ends
I had a student send me the screenshot of a pdf for his homework submission. So, yeah. I guess that’s how it ends.
How much battery life did their phone have?
No idea. It was a laptop screenshot.