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Well, at least planning for the future seems prudent. Otherwise if such a system breaks permanently, then you are scrambling to get something else up while the
by pyre 11y ago
Well, at least planning for the future seems prudent. Otherwise if such a system breaks permanently, then you are scrambling to get something else up while the whole system is down (even ignoring the question of backups and data migration to a new system).
- smcl 11y agoWell the article says "If the computer stopped working tomorrow, a staff person would have to turn each building’s climate control systems on and off by hand" - I know that's not exactly a tiny job across 19 schools but it doesn't seem to be a hugely tough task
- JoeAltmaier 11y agoThere can be dozens of air conditioners on the roof of a school. And they have to be cycled on and off all day long as they cool the building, else it'll turn into winter in there. Definitely a fulltime job for somebody. That's why we have thermostats.
- ganeumann 11y agoYou do wonder if those staff people would be ok turning it on and off by hand if they got the "$1.5 to $2 million" needed to replace the system. That said, I'm pretty sure I could get an Amiga emulator running on a Raspberry Pi for a lot less than $1.5 million.
- cwyers 11y agoAs has been said multiple times before, it's not $2 million to keep this kid's school project running for another 30 years, it's $2 million for a better HVAC automation system. They've probably pissed away multiples of $2 million in energy costs not having a better system in place the past 30 years.
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- ganeumann 11y agoNo kidding, but that's not how the article was written. My second paragraph was a comment on that. Every budget ever written stuffs things that management thinks can be put off until later into funding for things that absolutely need to be done today.