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The latest "Last Week Tonight" episode on Air Traffic Controllers is quite interesting. Learned about the floppy discs there.
by jeffreygoesto 1y ago
The latest "Last Week Tonight" episode on Air Traffic Controllers is quite interesting. Learned about the floppy discs there.
- jillesvangurp 1y agoHe also pointed at the root cause and possible solution there. Which is re-categorizing spending on this as essential instead of as something that's nice to have and becomes the victim of cuts almost immediately after anytime some budget is actually allocated. An interesting point here is maybe that there's a whole world outside the US where planes fly and communicate. For example the EU has its own issues on this front but is modernizing what it does. Airspaces here are pretty dense and busy. It's not necessary to reinvent a lot of wheels here. The US could just look across its borders and learn from what is being done there. As soon as there's a reasonable budget for this, there are all sorts of perfectly reasonable things that can be done. The core issue isn't technical.
- marcosdumay 1y ago> For example the EU has its own issues on this front but is modernizing what it does. The EU has been almost single-handedly designing the international interoperability standards for the kinds of information that the US uses floppies to move around. I'm not sure any country still remembers the lessons that would be useful for the US on this one situation.
- RandomBacon 1y ago> floppy discs disc - optical disk - not optical Eg.: floppy disks and DVD discs
- bmacho 1y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spelling_of_disc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spelling_of_disc