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Good news: This fancy new compression reduces the error rate from 5% to 1% for the same file size

Bad news: While the 5% was a minor inconvenience for customers, the 1% is bad enough to end your company

Well, that’s a nightmare I never knew existed…

Epic talk (in German, David Kriesel, "Traue keinem Scan, den du nicht selbst gefälscht hast"):

Watched it two times! It is very well made and funny!

They should've added english subtitles by now.

I love it how they say "yeah, character substitution is a known issue". How was that ever fine?

Close the ticket. My performance review scorecard doesn't include "known issues"