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		nmlt on Nov 9, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: In the 1990s a piece of Germany’s air traffic cont... I don’t think that’s idiotic. There is no standard way of transferring a file from on device to another. That is a failing of the tech industry.

atoav on Nov 9, 2022 [–]

There is no standard for what a file is. It is turtles all the way down.

Still there are 100 faster, more efficent and less error prone ways to get data from A to B than printing it out and having another guy type it.

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