I remember a few years ago calculating what it would take to put the current (at the time) version of windows on floppies. I figured it would take a pallet 2ft high worth of floppies. Bigger if you wanted it on 5-1/4in.

Ahhhh... the good old days. When it would take a weekend to model a handful of frames in 3D.

Also, last I checked, a floppy disk can’t over-volt your computer and fry the motherboard.

it’s sort of like the US nuclear program doing data transmission via pressurized cables, the data throughput is awful but the cables are completely impossible to hack into as the second the cable is breach the connection is completely broken. something that newer cables simply can’t do. as weird as it is one of the…

What’s the alternative? You gonna be a dick and call someone a janitor instead of a Custodial Engineer?

It’s likely the multiple industries who have started applying the engineer title to non-degree’d engineer roles. Sales Engineer, Service Engineer, Maintenance Engineering, etc. All done by people who possibly have a diploma.

Right. Engineers are busy driving the train.

I once bought software that came on 32 floppies in a big old box, and one of them was corrupt so I had to call the company for a replacement and wait for it to arrive in the mail.

what is it with you having no idea what an engineer actually does?

“It also sounds horribly inefficient, as while some systems may only require one floppy disk of updates, others could require as many as eight floppy disks.”

Fun fact. USB “thumb drives” are the least secure things in the world. They typically consist of a flash memory chip and a controller chip. The controller chip is a small computer that can be programmed to lie. About anything. It can lie about the capacity. It can lie about the data that is on the flash chip. It can…

Always bugs me when people say it’s been in development for 8 years. That’s just when the Kickstarter started and it's goal was to be a little space game. At the very earliest you could argue that development on what is currently Star Citizen, the sprawling AAA MMO, started in 2014. Which is a pretty long time but far…

Because they danced to the tune set by Corona.

New Zealand, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, South Korea, Malaysia, Singapore et al would like to disagree.

Back in autumn 2019, I heard an interview with Dr. Fauci on a podcast (Science Vs.) where he predicted the shortage of respirators and ventilators when (not if) the next respiratory pandemic comes. I heard his name and quickly forgot it. He gave a follow-up interview a couple of months ago, and the hostess was like,…

I dunno’, man, New Zealand seems to have things pretty under control.

Unfortunately, you’re not too far off:

When are you fucking idiots going to understand that people are not in charge of this situation, Covid-19 is. We’re dancing to it’s tune until we get a vaccine. Get used to it.

The real issue is that Florida does way too many testing. Slow down on testing and you’ll see a decrease in case number. #SlowDownTesting

If only those “scientists” could have warned us that this might happen. Unfortunately they were all too busy making political statements and so it’s their fault we’re in this mess.  #DefundTheScientists