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minus-squareMaalus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·3 months ago“our customers are so used to this rounding error that fixing it now would lead to more problems than them fixing it every time the situation arises” Holy crap I thought that financial systems are bulletproof till I actually worked in fintech.
minus-squarevoidfox@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 months agoIt only gets worse. Like the government will build fort Knox around a rats nest from the 80s. Hyper secure modern system meet legacy fax machine. That kind of stuff always makes me laugh
“our customers are so used to this rounding error that fixing it now would lead to more problems than them fixing it every time the situation arises”
Holy crap I thought that financial systems are bulletproof till I actually worked in fintech.
It only gets worse. Like the government will build fort Knox around a rats nest from the 80s. Hyper secure modern system meet legacy fax machine. That kind of stuff always makes me laugh