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I'm honestly terrified that America's nuclear missile silos are going to get "upgraded". Let them keep their 8 inch floppies and text interfaces, for the love o
by apostacy 8y ago
I'm honestly terrified that America's nuclear missile silos are going to get "upgraded". Let them keep their 8 inch floppies and text interfaces, for the love of god. It works fine the way it is.
- ghaff 8y agoHardware fails over time and gets increasingly less reliable and harder to source. These types of upgrades are mostly about maintaining existing functionality on modern hardware.
- ForHackernews 8y agoIn the case of nuclear missiles, this is entirely a good thing. If both sides can just maintain Potemkin nuclear arsenals we'll achieve gradual disarmament through obsolescence. We might hope that at some point in the early 2100s, somebody will notice that none of the nuclear missiles work anymore, and with any luck, the engineering knowledge to create new ones will have been lost.
- 51lver 8y agoOr, preferably, simply seen as a childish use of rockets and nuclear energy while the tech is being used productively elsewhere.
- moonbug 8y agoFogbank, lost knowledge regained https://www.lanl.gov/science/weapons_journal/wj_pubs/17nwj2_09.pdf https://www.lanl.gov/science/weapons_journal/wj_pubs/17nwj2_...
- JohnJamesRambo 8y agoIt will be fine they will just download the nuke app off of the app store and sign into Facebook for authentication.
- acheron 8y agoI'm sure it will only need 70 or so NPM modules.
- inetknght 8y agoOnly 70? That's a stretch. This is 2019, after all, not 2015. Those 70 dependencies are only the first-line dependencies. Their dependencies will bring in another thousand.
- acheron 8y agoHey, when you need to pad a string, what else are you supposed to do?
- ceterisparibus 8y agoES8 to the rescue! ;) https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/String/padStart https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...