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47 points

Python is the connective tissue holding together library calls and some of our most advanced AI research is reliant on that. mildly concerning

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Many banking systems sync with one another with txt files so… Yeah…

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3 points

O.O

What.

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9 points

(Nobody tell him about the Cobol batch jobs that still run overnight.)

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Many banking systems sync with one another with txt files.

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You don’t want to know how bad it is. A good friend is a consultant/business analyst for some salesforce-based loan software. Shit’s terrifying.

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Pretty much all online service APIs (Google APIs, Facebook and so on) out there are text-based.

Granted, JSON formatted text, but still absolutelly human readable text.

The reason for that is because it’s agnostic of the machine architectures (stuff like endianess) on both sides.

The really crazy stuff in banking are the old binary protocols (like EDF) from the time when bandwidth was way less than now (so, the early 90s and earlier).

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19 points

If you think that’s bad, don’t think about how many important communications in the world happen completely verbally.

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