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> Our nuclear bases still use floppy disks. An odd thing to complain about. If it works, it works.
by etimberg 10y ago
> Our nuclear bases still use floppy disks.
An odd thing to complain about. If it works, it works.
- mc32 10y agoI understand the "if it works, it works"[1] argument, but I also get the despair in it too. We used to be leaders in advanced technologies, now we're not lagging but not leading in advanced technologies in the very visible "great society" ways. The mission and the hope that technology could deliver. [1] Taking this too far let's us say horses and oxen "worked" at tilling fields --but very few people would argue modern agricultural machinery is superfluous.
- brobinson 10y agoPrevious discussion on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11772966 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11772966
- Jtsummers 10y agoIt works, but it's very fragile. A lot of our military tech is fragile. We have many dependencies on systems that are no longer (physically) produced outside DoD demand, which puts the prices into the exorbitant range. Modernization efforts are error-prone and only bandaids in many cases. And new efforts have seen production and development issues that are just embarrassing (F-35).