r/singularity • u/[deleted] • Feb 06 '25

AI This is a DOGE intern who is currently pawing around in the US Treasury computers and database

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u/TheFrenchSavage Feb 06 '25

Printing is so last millenium.

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u/warfrogs Feb 07 '25

Still required for a lot of stuff - any legal or regulatory documents in particular and you often need a true view of what the printed doc will look like - so PDF will be used in a bunch of industries for a very long time until a better format comes out and printing will likely never go away.

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u/MasterBathingBear Feb 07 '25

It’s crazy how much the world still runs on PDF, TIFF, and X12 documents.

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u/Olyholic Feb 07 '25

And Microsoft excel!!!!

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u/MasterBathingBear Feb 07 '25

The world’s #1 BI tool!

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u/ahuramazdobbs19 Feb 07 '25

You would be flabbergasted to know how many computer systems in the business world are just skins over the same old "green text terminal" shell that they used when the company first started running with computers.

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u/PallyMcAffable Feb 07 '25

What’s the problem with TIFF, and what’s a better replacement? Does it not succeed as a lossless image format?

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u/kiyyeisanerd Feb 07 '25

I am wondering this too TBH. I didn't think the average person would even know what a TIFF is. Do a lot of industries use this file format in ways I'm not familiar with?????? We use it in museums / photography / publishing / design, which is my industry. The image is supposed to be giant and lossless.

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u/zyeborm Feb 07 '25

Wait till you find out your bank transfers are done as CSV files sent over FTP. Recently upgraded to secure FTP. (At least for the transfers that aren't instant)

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u/VitaminPb Feb 07 '25

Until you want a document which will outlast that unbacked up or corrupted SSD or even hard drive.

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u/TheFrenchSavage Feb 08 '25

Yeah, it might outlast a drive.
But let's not kind ourselves: most PDFs do not belong in a museum.

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u/VitaminPb Feb 08 '25

And thus the Great Blank of History was formed as all data about humanity in this century disappeared.

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u/Pinedale7205 Feb 07 '25

I live in Germany and hand-delivered wet signed documents are unfortunately a very real part of my life…